CNET Editors' review
IM+ takes all the fuss out of mobile instant messaging by enabling you to connect to your Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Facebook, and other IM accounts, all from a single application window. With its clean design and simple user interface, chatty folks on the go may wonder how they ever lived without it.
Under the Contacts tab, all of your contacts are compiled in a single list. That way, you don't have to bother with switching among accounts in order to chat. In fact, once you're on IM+, you should feel absolutely no distinction between the different instant messaging services, which is really the beauty of the app.
Starting a chat is as easy as tapping on any contact from your list. You can also long-press any contact to get more info, edit a contact, or see chat history. Within conversations, IM+ performs just as smoothly as any desktop chat client. We like that it offers emoticons, but at the same time, it's a shame that non-IM+ users can't see them in all their full-color glory. It would've been nice if IM+ offered each service's specific set of animated emoticons for you to use.
If you don't like tapping the same responses all the time, IM+ lets you create templates that are retrievable from within any conversation. It also lets you send photos or audio to your chat buddy by generating a link for you to include in your messages.
It's no secret that there are several all-in-one chat clients available for Android, most of which perform their duties just fine. However, what really impressed us about IM+ were its simple UI and the many added conveniences it gives its users. In addition to the file attachments and the emoticons, IM+ offers a certain level of customization. You can change font sizes, avatars, notifications, and more. There's also a convenient Push mode that can keep you signed on even after you exit the application.
Overall, we think IM+ is a winner, and we highly recommend the download. The free IM+ is ad-supported, and the paid IM+ Pro is ad-free and gives you Push mode up to seven days.
Publisher's Description
From SHAPE Services:
Chat across AIM/iChat, MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk, MySpace, Facebook, and Skype messengers regardless of location and mobile operator. No cost per message, only standard payment for wireless data transfer. Show your Geo location to your contacts as a status message. User interface in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Arabian, Chinese and Korean.
Skype, ICQ, AOL and MSN group chats: invite your friends and enjoy group conversations.
Enjoy a wide set of other features to make your communication smooth and convenient: typing notifications, integration with Android Address Book, share tool. Now you can select text from other apps or your browser and easily add it to an instant message through IM+.
Introducing Beep: free mobile-to-mobile in-app messenger.
We figured you've been looking for a free alternative to SMS for a while now. And now we've got that right in IM+ Pro. Available for Android smartphones/tablets and other mobile devices that your friends use IM+ on: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Phone.
Whenever you send and receive text messages, photos or voice messages, IM+ Beep will make sure that your message was successfully sent and notify you when it is safely delivered. Push will make incoming messages instantly pop up on your device.
Always on, always instant, always fun.
What's new in this version:
- Option to hide Beep panel in Accounts window;
- IM+ requires less permissions to start now;
- Chat history is now grouped by date (today, yesterday, earlier..).
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"The best messenger app for Androids"
Version: IM+ All-in-One Messenger for Android 5.0
Pros
Simply the best.
Cons
It's plain and it has everything you would need for chatting
Summary
The best messenger for Android
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"Very nice app"
Version: IM+ All-in-One Messenger for Android 3.7
Pros
Multi protocol is cool
Cons
Multi protocol is cool
Summary
Check ReChat (facebook chat for android): http://refineandroid.doodlekit.com/
- multiple accounts;
- plain/bubble views. Customize avatar/font sizes.
- font packs (download separate apk to keep memory).
- full Unicode support;
- favorites (always in contact list);
- customize income message notification: default sound/your sound file, LED, vibration, status bar notification.
- chat history. Export (email) selected messages, open chat messages, whole history for a contact, whole history for all contacts. Archive attachment with 7zip.
Facebook features:
- all non-chat permissions are revoked, customize period, "revoke now".
- upload image/short video (several share options)
- send image/short video to a contact (private wall post).
- send message to a contact (as a private event or private wall post).
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"Does not work for Sprint Epic (Android 2.1 OS)"
Version: IM+ All-in-One Messenger for Android 3.0.11
Pros
None testable
Cons
Tried all of my accounts & provider's test accounts. Cannot get this to work.
I wonder if this is only compatible with Froyo so will try again when Sprint rolls out Android 2.2 to Epics (currently only EVOs are on 2.2, Epics shipped with 2.1)Summary
I use Pidgin on my laptops & haven't used a single-account IM client in 5 years, so was really looking forward to the same on my Epic.
But alas it simply will not connect - tried various chat protocols individually in case was some error with one of them, tried test accounts provided by the software developer.
All to no avail.
The interface looks pretty clean & the idea is tried & true, so please fix this. So glad I didn't download the paid version.
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