Monal - Free XMPP chat at Mac App Store analyse

Monal allows you to connect to your chat server without having to give a third party access to your password or messages. Whether it is a personal Google talk account or a corporate chat server, it is important not to give someone access to sensitive information. This app has no ads, no user behavior tracking and all messages are exchanged directly with the XMPP chat server.

Notable features:
- Open Source
- Free and No Ads! Strong focus on privacy. Does not phone home and does not have "metrics" software beyond anonymous crash reporting (crashlytics) and open source anonymous user counter (count.ly) . Does not read any personal information.
- A direct client that does not transmit your password to a 3rd party.
- Reply from OS notification bubbles
- Will work with corporate XMPP servers that require VPN
- MUC multi user chat
- Tested heavily with Google Talk, Openfire, Orosody and eJabberd servers.

Implements XMPP certain extensions intended to improve performance.
- XEP-0280: Message Carbons keep messages in synch between clients.
- XEP-0198: Stream Management to quickly reconnect.
- XEP-0199: XMPP Ping to maintain connections.
- XEP-0313: Message Archive Management to download chat history.
- XEP-0352: Client State Indication for dramatic reduction on power use.
- XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload to send images in conversations.

OTR and HIDE message from fotification please ADD!!!

• ★★★★☆   011101000100010 9 years ago ( v 1.0 )

OTR and HIDE message from fotification please ADD!!!

Nice to have an app, some features I miss from Adium

• ★★★★☆   Jeradin 8 years ago ( v 1.4 )

So far it works for Gtalk. I wish I could sort by active inactive, make groups and such. also menu item notifications would be nice=)

Doesn’t work on GTalk

• ☆☆☆☆☆   DiamondGSX 9 years ago

Never would connect to GTalk for me. I wanted to love this app as an alternative to Flamingo, which has major issues, but this isn’t gonna work for me. Also, it does indeed phone home.. it tried to connect to “cloud.count.ly” and crashlytics.com … so not sure I believe that it doesn’t track users. :)

Cannot get it to work at all.

• ☆☆☆☆☆   DarknessTigerpaw 8 years ago

After 24 hours of every possible configuration to try to get it to connect to a legitimate XMPP server, it wouldnt connect to any of them. I cant recommend this product.

privacy and security!

• ☆☆☆☆☆   RandallRides 8 years ago

I love the fact that it’s open source, and thus open to review for security and privacy concerns.

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