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iPhone Jabber(XMPP) Clients – Missing Features

July 11th, 2010 by pixel

I have begun researching a potential Jabber(XMPP) client for use on my iPhone. Being a developer and the maintainer of XMPP services at my workplace, I came up with the following feature list that I felt was needed in a potential client.

iPhone Client Feature Requirements:

Support for XEP-0133 (Basic server administration control)
SRV DNS record resolution support
Avatar support (*seems pretty standard)
Pub-Sub notifications
Push notifications

I have included a table summarizing the results of my findings. I have tried to include as many XMPP clients as possible. Applications like Meebo have been intentionally excluded from the table since they don’t support direct connection to private XMPP servers.

Table 1: iPhone App Summary

iPhone App	Admin	SRV	Pub-Sub	Push
IM+	N	N	?	Y
BeeJive IM	N	N	?	Y
mundu IM	N	Y	?	Y
OneTeam for iPhone	N	Y	?	Y

4 Responses

pixel writes:
April 1st, 201113:55at
I had not come across Monal yet but I will definately check it out. Thanks for letting me know.
Anu writes:
March 26th, 201115:57at
Hi there, I am the developer of Monal. Have you tried it? It’s a perpetual work in progress but I am working to add as much of the XMPP spec as I can. It supports DNS SRV and does XMPP service discovery. I’ll probably have pub-sub in the next release in April and xep-0133 in the next couple of months.
pixel writes:
September 3rd, 201016:08at
The software in the list above are actual jabber/xmpp clients.
Daniel writes:
September 2nd, 201011:48at
Are these actual XMPP clients? or just services that rely the messages to the phone?

iPhone Client Feature Requirements:

Table 1: iPhone App Summary

iPhone App

Admin

SRV

Pub-Sub

Push