Conversations (Jabber / XMPP)

Daniel Gultsch

About this app

A free and open source Jabber/XMPP client for Android. Easy to use, reliable, battery friendly. With built-in support for images, group chats and location sharing. End-to-end encrypted by default. Connects to all modern Jabber, XMPP and Snikket servers.

Features
• End-to-end encryption with OMEMO or OpenPGP
• Send and receive images and other kinds of files
• Encrypted audio and video calls (DTLS-SRTP)
• Advanced machine-in-the-middle detection via channel binding (requires opt-in)
• Share your location
• Send voice messages
• Emoji reactions
• Indication when your contact has read your message
• Intuitive UI that follows Android design guidelines (Material Design 3 with Dynamic Colors)
• High-resolution contact photos (avatars)
• Synchronizes with desktop clients (Gajim and Dino)
• Private group chats and public conferences (with support for bookmarks)
• Message moderation for admins in public conferences
• Address book integration
• Multiple accounts (unified inbox)
• Very low impact on battery life

Note: Some of these features require server support. Go to account details and select 'Server Info' from the overflow menu to see if your server has all necessary extensions.

Design principles
• Be as beautiful and easy to use as possible without sacrificing security or privacy
• Rely on existing, well-established protocols
• Do not require a Google account or specifically Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)
• Require as few permissions as possible

Ratings and reviews

Great at private messages and otherwise very good at most things, but it seems there are some major inconsistencies. On mobile, sometimes media sharing just stops functioning for no apparent reason. No matter what I do, restarting phone, clearing cache, sending fewer media, or clearing space on my phone. It just doesn't function. However, it also just randomly fixes itself. It isn't server sided because my partner can send images to me. On computer. Encryption just barely works. Usually not.

The best messenger ever, beautiful, fast and clean UI, the video calls are more fluid than on any other messenger even on old phones, the only thing I dislike is that every image I send got downloaded back into my gallery whatever the settings I change, it makes a lot of duplicates to manually delete when my images are also automatically synced in a cloud, I wish I could prevent that, then this app would be flawless.

After years of using it, I finally decided to move away because it always randomizes file names when sending files, and the author simply doesn’t care. Other clients have already fixed this well-known problem.

What’s new

• Add 'Note to self' as search suggestion
• Minor bug fixes