What Is the Best Multi-client IM for the iPhone?
It looks like the iPhone AppStore provides plenty of multi-client IM apps from where you can pick your favorite(s). Unfortunately as with Twitter clients, when there are too many choices picking the right one is quite difficult.
So, here is the list of multi-client IM iPhone apps I am currently running in parallel:
- fring: Skype, GoogleTalk, MSN, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo, SIP, AIM
- Nimbuzz!: WindowsLive, Skype, Yahoo, Facebook, GoogleTalk, AIM, MySpace, ICQ, and a couple more
- Palringo: WindowsLive, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ, XMPP, GoogleTalk, Facebook
- eBuddy: MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GoogleTalk, Facebook, ICQ, MySpace
You can use different criteria to pick the right multi-client IM iPhone app:
- support for the services you are using
- push notifications
- per-account advanced settings
- price: most of the above apps are free. Palringo and eBuddy are the only one that have also a payed version offering a couple more features.
Anyway, I am wondering if you have any favorite(s) you’d like to recommend?
