monal-im.org :xmpp:

Open source XMPP client for iOS and macOS with focus on privacy and convenient chatting.

MATRIX - 𝐌onolithic, 𝐀wfully 𝐓rendy 𝐑e-𝐈mplementation of 𝐗MPP

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id317711500
macOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1637078500
Web: https://monal-im.org/
Source: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal

Public Key

npub1xxsakz442dmz57rx5s4tazelfqenfheha4k3j5v0njxf7fkhfwhqntxwre

NIP-05 Address

monal_at_fosstodon.org@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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2026-03-11 23:31:07 UTC

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my attitude is that I expect maintainers to maintain things, just like I'm maintaining my project fixing bugs when they get reported. Especially if those bugs render the app unusable for a huge portion of users (as with this ejabberd bug rendering ejabberd nearly unusable).

2026-03-11 23:08:25 UTC

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okay, I guess I have to publish a post telling my users to switch the server to prosody then, or switch from Debian to nix 🤷‍♂️

2026-03-11 23:05:56 UTC

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aren't you a maintainer of the ejabber packet? I might have misunderstood the term "maintainer", but shouldn't you, uhm, maintain the packet then?
Why should I start maintaining the packet? Do you mean you aren't capable of doing it and want to resign your maintainership of that packet?

2026-03-11 22:58:57 UTC

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didn't you talk about updating Debian? Shouldn't fixing stable be top priority for you?
And no, I'm neither Debian developer nor do I have enough Erlang experience to do that, but *I* will be the person that has to answer all those support requests once our push server certs still having client auth eku expired and push stops working.
And to be clear: on iOS push is vital for a usable client.

2026-03-11 22:51:58 UTC

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and what about fixing stable first?

2026-03-11 22:46:55 UTC

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ah, so youre talking about that p1 TLS module? That wasn't entirely clear to me.

2026-03-11 22:41:18 UTC

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unfortunately there is no package, not even in sid, having the needed commit from Holger over here: https://salsa.debian.org/ejabberd-packaging-team/ejabberd/-/commits/trixie?ref_type=heads
Without that, even an updated p1 TLS packet is useless 🤷‍♂️
Not even starting to talk about Debian stable...

2026-02-01 13:54:31 UTC

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I personally wouldn't trust an app that is written mostly by AI and still tells you it is the "most secure" one.

2025-09-26 00:01:30 UTC

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well, unfortunately its a lot more complicated: we can't know if the server supports ssdp when sending the clientfirst message. But that's where the y or n must be set.

2025-09-25 22:36:14 UTC

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the thing Herr is: you have to behave differently if the server supports signing the cb and method lists using 0474 and if it doesn't. An attacker won't be able to fake that signature so its safe to rely on this signal.
If 474 isn't supported, "y" is the right way to do it, if it is supported, "n" is the right way.
Monal doesn't do this distinction yet and that's clearly a bug, I'll fix that.

2025-09-23 16:33:05 UTC

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I don't know when your friend tested it, but when I took over the project I rewrote the whole background and notification handling and notifications are pretty solid now since ~2021.
Of course you won't get notifications if you turn on focus mode. But then again: that's what focus mode is for.
You won't get notifications if you don't allow Monal to show them in iOS settings (Monal asks on first start). But then again: that's what this iOS setting is supposed to do, too.

2025-08-23 22:26:34 UTC

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yes, #Monal does support this too (released about a year ago).

2025-08-11 06:06:45 UTC

Monal 6.4.13 (Build 1046, PR #1456) released.
- Don't mirror local camera view in videocalls
- Don't autodisable account on some minor errors
- Fix mam queries broken by last release
#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging

2025-08-08 15:21:54 UTC

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xmpp is even an ietf standard. Imagine someone saying "well, http 1.1 is nice, but it has its issues, I'll completely reinvent it under a different name using a different technology and a different government model", we never would've had nearly ubiquitous http2 and the web landscape would be highly fragmented. Or it would have failed entirely, of course.
That's just not a smart move if you don't have (nearly) infinite manpower and infinite money.

2025-06-20 19:33:01 UTC

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ich würde dir da mittlerweile widersprechen. Ja, xmpp hat ein paar Jahre gebraucht, um mobil nutzbar zu sein, aber jetzt gibt es mit Conversations von Daniel Gultsch und Monal zwei gute Clients für die beidem großen Plattformen Android und IOS. https://joinjabber.org ist auch immer eine gute Anlaufstelle für Informationen.

2025-02-22 06:51:17 UTC

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thats not true, encryption and notifications work pretty well. No reactions yet, we are in the process of rewriting our chat ui to make reactions possible, though :)

2025-02-19 19:13:24 UTC

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here is the reason why: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/wiki/Battery-consumption
Tldr; iOS doesn't measure the battery consumption right: the real battery consumption is *way* lower.

2025-02-17 21:29:21 UTC

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wie are currently in the process of rewriting most of our ui. If you tell me what exactly is broken in monal, I can put this onto our to do list for the rewrite as well :)

2025-02-11 01:44:43 UTC

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after installing Monal it will show you some onboarding explanations and then take you directly to the login screen. Since you don't have an xmpp account yet, just press the register button.
The prefilled server is known to work flawlessly, so you'll just have to pick a username and password and you're good to go :)

2025-01-27 10:41:07 UTC

Monal 6.4.10 (Build 1029, PR #1380) released.
- Don't accept forbidden control characters as chat input
- Update ssdp implementation to version 0.4
- Fix some more bugs
#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging

2025-01-24 02:18:01 UTC

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no, openpgp usage is entirely transparent to the server, no pgp queue etc.
Sounds more like a bug in your desktop client or a server misconfiguration. Or both.

2025-01-24 01:41:55 UTC

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(Technically, with omemo the message is only encrypted once with a random "master key". This key is then encrypted separately for every device using the key of that device. The ciphertext of your original message is then sent together with the encrypted copies of the " master key" in one message.)

2025-01-24 01:41:34 UTC

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unfortunately its a bit more complicated. You are right, omemo uses a different key for every device, but all encrypted versions are sent in one message.
The reason for message loss could rather lie in the fact, that key distribution and trust management is a bit more complicated if every device has its own key. And some clients might also suppress certain decryption errors and show nothing at all.

2025-01-23 18:41:45 UTC

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sslh kann auch als port multiplexer verwendet werden, wenn man kein nginx benutzen will. Auch transparentes proxying ist möglich, damit kommen die connections aus Sicht von Prosody/Apache etc. Immer noch von der externen IP statt von localhost. Trotz multiplexer.

2025-01-22 17:36:24 UTC

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setting up a [@snikket_im](https://fosstodon.org/@snikket_im ) Server (https://snikket.im) should be very easy.
Using apps like #Monal for iOS/macos or the snikket app / #Conversations for android or @npub1u4t…7ldx for windows/Linux should give you a very good user experience :)

2025-01-21 19:01:28 UTC

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your friend should try #Monal. Notifications work like a charm just the way you'd want them to (even for groups/channels not hosted on your snikket server).

2025-01-09 13:20:52 UTC

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even without those improvements, #xmpp is significantly better performing than matrix.
Joining a channel/group will only take a few seconds (~5-10) even in large channels.
Of course this can even be improved further, like @npub1j6j…fj60 said :)
@npub1nqn…nfm7 @npub18ds…6490

2024-12-02 19:45:41 UTC

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yes apparently. It didn't accept the neutral ar.

2024-12-02 17:47:45 UTC

Monal 6.4.7 (Build 1003, PR #1308) released.
- Add Arabic appstore description
- Fix crashes when backgrounding app
- Fix some more rare crashes
#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging

2024-11-22 15:30:34 UTC

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at monal we are offering a stun and turn server as fallback (you can disable this in the settings).
So far (over the last ~12 month) we didn't have any traffic excess.
Our tun and turn server seems to be used way less than originally anticipated.

2024-11-21 08:08:28 UTC

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Monal has an autodelete option in its settings. You can select a custom time as well as some predefined intervals. All messages older than that are automatically deleted from history.

2024-11-20 02:39:15 UTC

Monal 6.4.6 (Build 989, PR #1288) released.
- Fix regression when connecting solely using old STARTTLS connection method
- Fix crash when being unable to connect while creating new account
- Fix connection problems on slow connections
- Show timestamp of last received push in notification debug menu
- Fix various other crashes
#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging

2024-10-15 23:58:46 UTC

Monal 6.4.5 (Build 982, PR #1258) released.
To see the complete list of bugfixes and improvements, check our releases page: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/releases/tag/Build_iOS_982
#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging

2024-09-24 12:31:20 UTC

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banking apps normally don't detect sideloading. And sideloading is only a security problem if done from untrusted sources. But I'd consider fdroid very trusted.
I'd even say the risk of installing spyware etc. is higher when installing something from the playstore compared to fdroid. I remember I read some article of security researchers analyzing the play store for malware and their findings were a bit shocking.

2024-09-23 21:59:18 UTC

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why not use conversations on android?

2024-09-13 16:13:05 UTC

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yes exactly :)

2024-09-13 15:41:25 UTC

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you aren't allowed to query the disco if you don't have a presence subscription. (That's independent of pubsub.)
But for your use case that doesn't matter. We do the exact thame thing in Monal: if we get a muc answer back, the jid is a muc, every other answer/error means that the jid is an 1:1 chat or not existing at all :)

2024-09-02 22:40:02 UTC

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monal has group management (released several month ago). You can create groups and manage membership as well as manage channels (but not create channels).

2024-08-30 13:34:33 UTC

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otr is dead, the successor is omemo (based on the same double ratchet protocol signal uses)...and yes, omemo can seamlessly be used across multiple devices :)

2024-08-30 12:50:37 UTC

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sure, this was solved ~8 years ago. History is synced between all devices nowadays :)

2024-08-24 13:20:32 UTC

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you did not understand the purpose of quickly at all.
It's a spinn-off of conversations (android) and monal (iOS) with precisely one change: allowing users to sign up using their phone number and uploading the address-book.
Why? Because there are people out there that find it too hard to select a server, username and proper password and want auto discovery of users by uploading their address book.
If you aren't one of these users, please use the main apps (conversations/monal)

2024-08-22 13:34:39 UTC

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that's fine, just recommend #Monal then :)
Quicksy is only for those people that want a simplified onboarding flow without having to decide a username, select a server or remember a password.
Everybody else please use #Monal on #iOS or #Conversations on #Android :)

2024-08-22 09:00:22 UTC

We are pleased to announce Quicksy for iOS based on Monal!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quicksy/id6538727270
Jabber/XMPP with Easy Entry and Easy Discovery
Monal for you. Quicksy for your less tech-savvy friends
Remember you don’t have to be on Quicksy yourself to give your friends an easy way to find your #XMPP address. Instead you can enter your XMPP address-phone number tuple into the Quicksy Directory
https://quicksy.im/#get-listed
You can also initiate the conversation by adding +123455…@quicksy.im

2024-08-18 18:08:34 UTC

Monal 6.4.4 (Build 978, PR #1211) released.
- Fix xmpp: uri handling
- Fix spurious PLAIN warning again
#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging