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Yes, someone should fix those iOS clients... I have Siskin, Monal and ChatSecure all running in parallel on my iPhone and none works as it is supposed to do.

Siskin seems to be the best of these three, but is neither as reliable nor as feature-complete as Conversations on Android or Gajim on the Desktop.

I think Android is the only platform that currently has a good user experience with Conversations or Quicksy for the less technical people.

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https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-ios-public-release/ - needs a prosody module for reliability though.

I realise it’s superficial but I took one look at the screenshots of the Snikket iOS client and thought “the person who built this has no concept of spacing, padding or text sizes”. It’s really difficult to want to use a client that looks ugly and this is where so many iOS XMPP clients seem to fall down.

Yeah, it seems like a small thing, but this immediately put me off the first time I tried out Snikket. All the spacing and sizing just feels janky and out-of-place compared to other iOS apps.

If aesthetics are the main issue, then that's validation that we've come a long way :)

The iOS app hasn't yet been through a thorough visual review, though it is planned in the coming months (a number of fixes are already in beta builds though).

Thanks for the feedback!

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