Draft:Monal (software)

Monal is an XMPP client software, available on iPhone and MacOS..

It's one of the rare XMPP client on iPhone, with Snikket and Siskin, to support both OMEMO encryption and voice/videoconference via Jingle protocols.

In 2024, it was retired by Apple from the Chinese AppStore, from a government request, as well as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram.

History :
Monal is a fork of the SwordIM XMPP client, in 2002. It's development has started again almost twenty years later, to adapt it better to Apple devices.

Features :

 * Encrypted communications through OMEMO protocol
 * Voice and Videoconference communications using Jingle protocol
 * File transfer

Financing :
Monal is partly financed by NGI "NextGen Internet", a netherlands funds whom encourages to an opened and freed internet, using European Union funds

Compatible systems:
Macos

iPhone