It offers compatibility with AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN/Windows Live, MySpace, and Yahoo! messaging, and like the majority of its competition, uses a bottom-tabbed interface to let a user navigate between a buddy list, favorites, active chats, accounts, and more options.
iLounge Rating: B.īeejiveIM ($16) is perhaps at once the most polished, complete IM app for the iPhone and iPod touch, and the most overpriced.
It is still a good option, however, and worthy of our general recommendation. The addition of any of those features would help improve this app, which despite its official status, is not the best AIM client available for the iPhone and iPod touch. A menu in the Settings app lets a user set his or her screenname and password and toggle the classic icons, sign-off on exit, and sounds on and off.ĭespite the advantages of having official AOL support, AIM falls short of several competing apps with its inability to send images or audio snippets, and its similar inability to accept links and/or images. Likewise, users chatting using a traditional, desktop-based program cannot send images through to iPhone or iPod touch users. Unfortunately, neither linked text nor URLs appear as links in AIM, limiting its use in web-intensive chat sessions. Users can swipe back and forth to move between active messaging sessions. Individual chat sessions appear in a single window, with a colored bar containing the buddy’s name, the time stamp of the message, and their avatar to the left multiple consecutive messages from the same buddy appear underneath without repeating the colored bar.
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