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HoloIRC is an open source (https://github.com/tilal6991/HoloIRC) IRC client for Android 4.0 and up. It is designed to be as simple to use as possible while being extremely small in size and fairly light in resources. It works with IRC bouncers as well as regular servers. The design of the app is meant to be fully Holo with use of the latest Android design guidelines to make the app look as clean as possible while retaining efficiency.
Features:
* Beautiful and inuitive user interface
* Normal servers as well as ZNCs supported
* User list with user levels
* Quick nick completion by pressing on user button
* Settings for many of the most commonly tweaked preferences
* Default light theme but dark theme can be chosen in settings
* Notification settings - control if and when you wish to be notified
* Logging - choose whether you want history to be saved to your external storage for later viewing
My review
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4.1
541 total
5 266
4 135
3 81
2 24
1 35
Stephane Guillou
Finicky for Ver. 4.1.0 As the title states, since the update was pushed out, I have been experiencing some step-wise selection issues. For example, when I select actions on a server, the users tab should not appear, etc... The design and app capability is what makes it three stars, but the process flow for user interface makes this app receive negative two.
Michael Burns
Pretty good IRC app. Now that the bugs introduced in the UI overhaul have been fixed, this is back to being a decent IRC app. It doesn't, however, support some of the functions of our server anymore, so there's still a little ways to go. If you just need basic functions this is the one I still recommend!
Denis Chernov
Just the right app Tried a lot of android IRC clients and this is my favourite one. It is minimalistic yet full-featured, works flawlessly with ZNC and is completely ad-free. Another important point is that the app updates frequently. Good to see an open source project succeeding in becoming the best.
Audric Ackermann
The best I tried a lot of Android irc clients and I think this is the best one. Awesome with znc, bug fixes are coming fast, nice ui and open source. Thanks a lot!
User reviews
Finicky for Ver. 4.1.0 As the title states, since the update was pushed out, I have been experiencing some step-wise selection issues. For example, when I select actions on a server, the users tab should not appear, etc... The design and app capability is what makes it three stars, but the process flow for user interface makes this app receive negative two.
Pretty good IRC app. Now that the bugs introduced in the UI overhaul have been fixed, this is back to being a decent IRC app. It doesn't, however, support some of the functions of our server anymore, so there's still a little ways to go. If you just need basic functions this is the one I still recommend!
Lalit Maganti March 31, 2016
Thank you for the updated review :) Just the right app Tried a lot of android IRC clients and this is my favourite one. It is minimalistic yet full-featured, works flawlessly with ZNC and is completely ad-free. Another important point is that the app updates frequently. Good to see an open source project succeeding in becoming the best.
Lalit Maganti March 31, 2016
Thank you for the updated review :) Lalit Maganti March 21, 2016
In the new version rolling out this has now been fixed. Lalit Maganti March 21, 2016
In the new version rolling out this has now been fixed. Great, but hard to read This is the best android IRC app, but that isn't saying much. All of the other IRC apps are embarrassingly bad and this one is simply acceptable. Font size is adjustable but its way too thin. Also channel messages (like topic) are hard to distinguish from messages from users.
Stalled development? EDIT: a year without updates... pretty sure this is abandonware now. Dropping from 5 to 3 stars. | With the 3.3+ releases, this became the best, most bug free IRC android client in the Play store. It works well with my ZNC bouncer. The developer has been working overtime on squashing bugs lately; it's making a difference and is appreciated!
Close to being ideal Lacks custom highlight messages, some colour customization. But the most annoying thing is that channel window isn't focused when you successfully connect and auto joined the channel. Same problem with PM windows. Will monitor updates for your app, but AndChat is more comfortable to use currently for me. I'd also like bold font
ALMOST... ZNC party line doesn't seem to work and I keep getting dropped due to SSL read errors. ZNC PM (not a party line channel, but through the bouncer to another user) does work, so that is nice. Needs more support to fix the other two problems before it gets more stars, because that's mainly why I wanted to use it.
A Reasonably Good IRC App This app is missing a lot of more-or-less essential things: a monospaced font, timestamps with a 'seconds' place, character encoding settings (though it seems to default to UTF8, which is correct anyway), custom highlights, support for making clickable links out of the new gTLDs. But unlike most other IRC apps, it has the single most important feature: a dark theme. The interface is pretty easily navigable and it's open source, and unlike the other realistic option (AndChat), this app has been updated within the past year. If development continues, this could turn into something great. Unfortunately I had to deduct a star because, at the beginning of every line, it forces the keyboard into uppercase mode. Dear lord that is annoying.
Elegant interface, a pleasure to use I recently upgraded my phone, on which I'd been using AndChat. This app has several features I'd wanted, easily accessible. For example, it's easy to get the user list for the current chat room, neatly organized. This app hasn't been updated in a while, but I understand the developer is working on a new IRC app. I recommend using this, while watching for the new one.
Clean and functional Great job with this, better than everything I tried. Thanks for your efforts, and for making it open source. Just one small issue, the app will rarely/occasionally disconnect from server, especially when clicking on a link that someone posts in a chatroom
Lalit Maganti August 28, 2014
Unfortunately I do not see this issue. It may be specific to the server you are on retaining the nick after disconnect. Which server are you using? Better than many but still junk. Why can't I store anything? Why when I get kicked out of a room due to a 'time out' my nick returns to default holoircuser? That is very annoying. UI is simple and clean but these default 'features' are horrible. Make a .conf file on my phone that I can edit and Holoirc can call it. Learn from irssi.
Lalit Maganti August 20, 2014
Would appreciate if you could inform me about the server you're connected to as I do not see these issues. Doesn't crash as easily Using a large buffer with my ZNC bouncer was making clients like yaaic crash, but HoloIRC takes it like a champ!
Lalit Maganti May 18, 2014
This will be fixed in the next version :) Great App, so far So far it's a beautiful app that does exactly what I want it to do! Only problem it never remembers that I want the dark theme. I often have to restart the app multiple times.
Lalit Maganti April 9, 2014
It does have timestamps - take a look in app preferences to enable :) Review deleted
What's New
Big shout out to maniac103 for all his contributions towards v4.0.0
v4.1.0
Add parsing of colours to messages
Fix multiple crash issues
Fix multiple lifecycle issues
v4.0.5
Readd actions back into the user list
Multiple bug fixes
Multiple theme fixes
v4.0.2
Fix several crashes in v4.0.1
Fix dialog theme handling
v4.0.1
Minor crash fixes
v4.0.0
New Materialish Design
Rewrites of several core components for better stability
Additional information
Updated
March 25, 2016
Size
2.3M
Installs
10,000 - 50,000
Current Version
4.1.0
Requires Android
4.0 and up
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