Synology Chat

Synology Inc.

About this app

Own a Synology NAS to start chatting with your colleagues. Synology Chat is a web-based application that allows you to create a safe and secure place where conversations can be held in real-time. Collaborate from anywhere using your mobile devices, whether you are at home or out of the office. Receive push notifications whenever there’s a new incoming message or mention, ensuring you never miss important updates.

Find all detailed features about the app on our website:
https://www.synology.com/dsm/6.1/software_spec/mobile

Ratings and reviews

Generally a good product and can use some improvements 1. No support for .heic photos when most phones in the last 5 years support this new high compression 2. No export function of any kind 3. Save your text before submitting. If there's some issue like too long of text, a network issue, or even the screen rotated, then you will lose everything you typed. 4. Scrolling past long posts jumped from search results locks to the post and can't scroll to see other posts.

Mostly seems to work well, but has design flaws. If you secure the app with a pin code (with the idea that you have to log in to the app to view messages) you'd not expect content of the messages to show up in the notifications of the phone. A message like "person A messaged you" would be fine, but why secure an app with a pin code if everyone with access to the phone can read new messages anyway? Of course you could disable notifications...but then, how do you know someone messaged you..

Nice way to chat with other users on your NAS. Too bad it is lacking any safety regarding deleting content. You can create a channel with dozens of users and months worth of content and one user can just decide to delete the entire channel, either on purpose or by accident and the only way to get it back is restoring a backup, deleting all the content that was added since that backup. Deleting channels should be limited to admins and whoever created the channel.

What’s new

Important Note
1. The update is expected to be available in all regions within the next few days. The actual time of release may vary slightly depending on the region.

Fixed Issues
1. Fixed an issue where previewing GIF files might cause the app to crash.
2. Fixed stability issues that might occur when receiving push notifications.
3. Improved audio recording quality for voice messages.