Agile Messenger is a new iPhone Instant Messaging client app that showed up on Installer today – and from what I’ve seen so far, this is the best iPhone IM app yet!
Up to now Fring was my favorite iPhone IM client, because of its broad IM services support and strong background-running capabilities – but Agile Messenger matches up in both those areas, and goes well ahead due to its super slick interface and a bunch of cool features.
Here’s just a quick list of some of what’s cool about Agile Messenger based on playing round with it a bit this evening:
- Has a run-in-the-background capability (which can be turned off via Preferences) – that will play a sound and add a badge number on its icon to indicate when you have new messages. This works even when the iPhone is in sleep mode.
- Has a Copy & Paste ability within chat sessions – so you can select a block of text, choose to copy it, and then paste it into your sending field. This is implemented nicely too – not a bad example for other apps I think.
- Works with a broad range of IM services – GoogleTalk, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber
- Lets you snap pictures with the iPhone camera and send them within a chat session – and they show up very nicely in its built-in viewer
- Has easy one-tap icons for setting your online status and messages
- Its interface is slick and easy to work with at every level – working with contacts, showing individual conversations each in their own tab, menus that drop down and get out of the way quickly once you tap away from them, and good looking colors and buttons throughout.
Here’s a few more screencaps to give a little more feel for this great new app:
Agile Messenger is available now on Installer, via the ModMyiFone source, which is part of Community Sources – so you should not need to add any sources to see it …
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Strange, I have the modmyifone source but I can’t see this application… any ideas?
robt – just checked again – MMi is definitely the source. You should see this if your sources are refreshed and up-to-date …
Are the passwords just locally stored or saved on the agilemessenger’s servers?
Hi everyone. I just joined. Just got a new iPhone. Wanted to get this Agile Messenger, but couldn’t find it at the iPhone store. Is there some other way to search for it than Agile Messenger? Many thanks?
Hi GaryK – congrats on the new iPhone! Agile Messenger was a ‘jailbreak app’ at the time I wrote this post. Meaning you had to run specialist jailbreaking software to open your phone up to unauthorized apps etc. in order to run it. There may even still be a jailbreak version around now – I’m not sure.
The good news is there is an authorized version due to come to the App Store next month. It will likely not have *all* of the capabilities of this version, as Apple places restrictions on what apps are allowed to do (in this case, in particular run in the background).
Cheers …
Things i have heard about this app is that it doesn't alert you when you get a message, you can't have a display picture (not important as stability seems to be a big issue among iPhone IM's) and the keyboard disapears everytime a message is sent.
If someone could elaborate on this please do because there might have been updates since i was told this.
kateishere – Hi – hope you realize this post was written almost a year ago now, abou the jailbreak version of this app.
I don't currently run my phone jailbroken – so I don't know the latest on that version. I can say that the App Store version does have a feature that you can turn on to get email alerts when you have new IM messages, even if closed out of the app – and there are no problems with the keyboard that I'm aware of.
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