Palaver Irc App Reviews

I've scoured the App Store for an IRC client, I use IRC heavily and run ZNC on my server at home. This is the cleanest, most pleasant IRC experience of any I've tried. It's fast, auto uploads images to imgur, properly handles ZNC integration and keeps the interface out of the way. The only complaints I can think of are: 1. (Trivial) The network heading doesn't feel design-wise as if it is a container for the rooms/messages inside. Perhaps use the lighter gray for the heading and the darker gray for the rooms. 2. (Minor) It would be helpful if the message text was not auto-capitalized OR the nick autocomplete lower cased nicks on completion. I find myself editing autocompleted nicks to lower case. 3. If I open the app and connect and then need to immediately close the app (for whatever reason), I'll end up with several notifications as buffer replays. Perhaps, disable notifications until after buffer replay. (This might have been fixed in the latest release)

Other than IRCCloud, which requires a subscription, this is it. It’s well-designed. It has all the features you’d expect. It supports ZNC. I’ve tried other apps, and they don’t hold a candle to Palaver. Kudos to the dev.

2.1.1: Palaver has slowly been getting better at working with iOS autocorrect and name completion. The past few updates have made typing messages significantly better, although there are a few minor issues left. 2.0: Ever since the major 2.0 update there have been a bunch of extremely annoying bugs while typing messages. The way Palaver tries to autocomplete names interferes with the iOS keyboard's own predictive typing making it very frustrating to use. Now in the latest version, it keeps screwing around with what I type and adds in a bunch of nonsense two character words followed by a space instead of whatever I actually typed. Then I have to go back and delete the jibberish and attempt to retype everything, but it usually ends up running into the same stupid bug and screws up my input again. It makes it almost impossible to send a coherent message sometimes. Fix the buggy autocomplete, please.

Really, this is the best IRC client for iOS. I'm super impressed with the user interface. Pairing up Palaver + ZNC produces a fantastic mobile IRC experience.

This is definitely the best looking IRC app on the App Store. However, it does disconnect from the channel after using 1 or 2 different applications. This application will not hold a connection while in the background making it a tremendous pain to use.

Was using Dump Chat which has great ZNC support, but wasn't updated for i6+ or iOS 8. Palaver shares my same complaints that I have with Dump Chat. The experience is butter smooth and works very well. I just wish for more customization options. I mean I can't even choose how I want my time stamp displayed. I for one hate a 24 hour time display. I prefer a 12 hour format displaying am/pm. It would be nice to have a persistent bar atop a channel showing the current topic. I think a smoother way of switching channels would be nice. Tapping back to go forward into another channel feels odd. Maybe some small tabs? Could be from all of this real estate I now have with the 6+. Tapping on a message in a chan does a weird flash with no feedback so not really sure what that's for. All in all the app does what it's suppose to and does it well. Keep up the great work.

This client is missing some of the bells and whistles of Colloquy Mobile. What it really has going for it is that it's getting regular attention from its developers. It doesn't crash as often as Colloquy. One unique feature I find very nice is that Palaver de-dupes messages coming in from ZNC buffer playback. This proves especially handy when you have turned off "clear buffer after playback" in ZNC. I can happily live with issues as long as an app gets regular releases.

Downloaded this irc client only to have it crash every time I open the app. Tried to download it again and connect only to have the same thing happen. Don't it buy it simply doesn't work.

Entering channels takes several seconds and scrolling through channel content stutters. Very difficult to actually use because of this.

If only it had the ability to download files to a cloud account....hmmmm

I've been using Palaver every day since October 2014. It has made my commutes so much more bearable, and it is well worth the small price. It's probably my favorite iOS app ever. The interface is beautiful, the standard features are all there and work great: ZNC support, push notifications, and more recently nickname autocomplete. One unique feature I really love is the setting that changes the interface color based on screen brightness. None of my other apps do that, and I wish it was a more common feature. The standard bright theme is great for the daytime, and then when I get frantic pings at 4am because a server went down, I don't have to burn my eyes to read the messages! If you're looking for an IRC app, you can stop looking now. Get Palaver, it's awesome.

I love Palaver in general, but the newest update makes the app crash immediately if you try to select a username in a channel. You instead have to go to the channel list and click on a username to PM/Whois/whatever someone, rather than clicking when they say something. I also wish the app had logging of some sort, and didn't seemingly randomly clear PM/channels if the app is in the background for an unknown length of time. It would also be nice if you could make it so it wouldn't disconnect after being in the background a few minutes. Overall it's a very good app, and my favorite iOS IRC app, but it does have some flaws.

Nothing will ever be as comfortable as a desktop or terminal IRC client for a heavy user. Palaver makes the fewest compromises of anything out there. The effortlessly integrated Imgur upload support alone is worth the price.

I just wish there was keyboard preferences and autocomplete that functions similarly to Colloquy.

It crashes on startup every time. I've had the app for a long time. Maybe this new update crashes for long time users but works for a fresh install? Edit: fresh install crashes.

Palaver is quite possibly the best IRC client for iOS, but admittedly there isn't much competition. I do wish it had a better app icon though.

it's a ok app. looks nice, technically functional. but the interface lag is so bad it's unusable imho. fix this lag and i'll 5star this bad boy =)

Palaver is an amazing IRC client for any device; but the fact that it sits in my pocket and allows me to have a full and rich IRC experience wherever I go is amazing. I have been an IRC addict for over 20 years and have used clients on all sorts of devices to feed my need; but nothing outside of a full computer has given me the experience that Palaver delivers. What’s more is that every concern, feature request, or modification I have wished for the author has been responsive to. The support for the client is amazing and the product is polished. The ZNC module ties a bow around this awesome gift to the IRC community.

The latest update (2.7.0) seems to have added your nick as a prefix for server messages and it's especially noticeable with ZNC altering your away status when you start the app. This is not normal at all. As such, Palaver recognizes these as notifications since like a typical IRC client, you want to be notified when your nick is mentioned. By connecting to a number of networks at once through ZNC, you are shown that your nick was mentioned a large number of times (mine being 22 times). You have to view the server messages for each network in order to clear them which is a big annoyance. After dealing with this multiple times, you sort of stop caring if any of these notifications came from an actual person mentioning your nick in a channel. As of now my options for dealing this is currently: a) waste time clearing these out every time I launch the app, b) completely disable notifications which means I won't be told when someone mentions my nick, or c) use a different iOS IRC client. Until this issue is fixed or turned into a configurable option, I'm going with c). To repeat myself, this has nothing to do with ZNC and is very much a client-end thing, and a strange one at that.

No background functionality

Overall, it's pretty good. The autocomplete is extremely aggressive and interferes with auto correction. Anytime iOS wants to auto-correct, the app forces the correction before you can usually cancel it. It won't let me use a word that is the start of a nick. It always fills in the rest of the letters on me. Deleting characters is also broken by it. This makes the app unusable by me. Also had an issue when typing too quickly caused by the autocomplete leaving a bunch of 2 letter random words that I didn't even type, but we're force corrected when a space was randomly added.

I had been using Colloquy for the longest time but got fed up with the giant channel icons and overall responsiveness. Palaver has been great plus the night mode is very nice.

The best IRC app on iPhone by far but the number of crashes I'm getting for doing just about anything in the newest version is ridiculous. iPhone 6, iOS 9.3.2

I like the app. Is there any way that I can close the windows/tabs that I don't use anymore though? I tried to do it but I couldn't figure out how. I also emailed you guys but I got no response which kind of sucked.

Before the major app overhaul, Palaver was already my favorite IRC client but I sometimes found that I needed to use others for certain features. That's all changed now and with each update, Palaver just gets better and better. I would say that the best part is the developers' responsiveness to feedback. Literally every time I message their twitter support, they give a timely response and then fix issues and implement my suggested improvements in the very next update. Overall, amazing app and amazing support.

This is the best IRC client for iOS by far. Wonderful attention to detail, recently updated. Makes connecting to a ZNC server a breeze with a ZNC module available on github.

I been on IRC for 18 years. I used a ton of clients, from windows OS to Linux/UNIX. Shell based and etc. Wrote scripts for clients. I also used many IRC clients for iOS since first one ever came out and always had some disappointments, there was always something missing even if it was paid ones. This app is great, very simple and very clean GUI. All the features you can possible need and more if you want. Hands down, the best IRC client for iOS since iOS was released. I want to thank these guys for releasing it for free with no ads and doing such a great job. I would be more then happy to actually pay for this. Please keep up a great work and keep this app alive. Twitter: vysniukas, Freenode: ertz

This is the worst irc app in the store. Support third party keyboards before you launch you failures.

The old app let you enable notifications for all messages (until iOS kills the process after ten minutes or whatever) but the new update doesn't let me even get notifications when someone says my name..

i can't connect to SwiftIRC or Freenode with this app. is there anything i'm doing wrong? i'm using data and not wifi so there shouldn't be any issues related the a firewall. will update rating to 5 stars if i get some help with this.

I've tried a variety of them in the last few days (can I name Colloquy and Limechat here?) and Palaver blows them out of the water - there's just no reason to use anything else.

All my previous complaints were fixed and the new features are great. One of the better, if not the best IRC client available for iOS.

I was hoping this IRC would be different but it just disconnects me from chats if I leave the app. There should be an option to keep you connected at all times. Even if you leave the app or lock your phone. Another feature that would be nice is the ability to get notifications if you're in waiting in queue on a chat room. There are two chat rooms that offer support, but the wait time is looooong (8+ hours). If we can add/fix these features, this app can definitely be a 5 star app.

It does pretty without skimping significantly on functionality. kudos for proactively supporting ZNC. I considered this the best IRC app on iOS over 2 years ago and after taking a long hiatus that hasn't changed. well done.

Save your money

New update increased font size. Cannot use small font size even when disabling system font settings within app

Crashes often, keyboard is low and jumpy, the wall of toggles for channel modes is kinda silly, the auto complete for nicknames works oddly now (it doesn't always capitalize properly).

This app is great for chatting on irc via mobile. The recent update fixed the the crash issue it used to have on iOS 7! I'm excited to be able to use this app again.

I can't say enough about how great this application is. This is by far the best implementation of IRC for iOS. The developer is active and keeps pushing out great updates, the design is refreshing and elegant. If you need an IRC client. This is it! 150% totally worth the price.

Update: Versions 2.5 and 2.5.1 contain multiple serious bugs and crashes. New message retention feature seems to conflict with ZNC playback module. Downgraded to 2.4.1. Update: Version 2.4.1 seems to be working properly. Update: Version 2.1.1 crashes on iOS 7 when connecting to ZNC. Reinstalling does not help. Keep hoping for a working update, each one says it fixes bugs but creates new crashers. Update: Version 2.1.0 (1281) crashes instantly on iOS 7. Wiping app and settings, then reinstalling and recreating settings seems to work. Developers continue to ignore support channels. Avoid. Clean and functional when it works, but unstable and support is non-existent. Resource intensive, takes forever to load single channels/queries, kills battery. iPad version has some really bad layout bugs.

When I updated to iOS7 the app still worked fine, but then the app got an update to change its UI to conform to the new minimalistic look. Since then, the app crashes every time on startup on my iPhone 4S. Hope this gets fixed in the future, was a great app.

I was blown away at how quickly the issue was addressed - only a few days! It's rare that you get that kind of support for customers. Five stars, totally a fan!! ------------------ Old review: I normally love this app! But the most recent update makes it so that now every time I open a channel it crashes. Will change the rating once it's fixed.

It keeps randomly crashing on iPad Air 2 and on ios 8.3 after few minutes :( this is also true for colloquy but at least there is much less frequent.

One of my biggest issues with Palaver in the past was the name auto compete interfering with regular typing, but that seems to be fixed now. Looks like the update also addressed some other things like bouncer buffer repeating but I haven't tested that out yet. Main thing left I wish it had was an in app browser to quickly view links without being kicked out of the app.

Integrates really well with a znc bouncer and even gives you push notification if you install a znc module.

Simple, easy to use but powerful. ZNC integration takes it step further. This is a great app and I've enjoyed using it

I'm using palaver with weechat as an IRC relay and everything works really well. I'm impressed. I've tried several other clients for iOS and none of them were usable at all. This one is awesome!

This is easily the best IRC client for iOS but it occasionally crashes when I try to complete a nick. I would like to see: * nick completion like IRCCloud * user mode before nick (e.g. @Ethan)