You can never have enough chat app options for your iPhone or iPod touch. Today another push-capable chat app was released in the App Store called eBuddy, and the best part is, it’s free.
The app allows you to chat with all of your friends even if they use different IM networks, like MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Gtalk, and Facebook. All you need to do is register for a free eBuddy account, which you can do via the app itself, and all of your friends from all of these different networks are placed under one buddy list. The app also contains quite a few other useful features, including the ability to stay online when you exit the app, push notifications, the ability to easily switch between chats, group chat support, and support for multiple IM accounts for each network.
One of the eBuddy’s most notable shortcomings is that it doesn’t allow you to type in landscape mode. The developer has stated that this feature will be arriving via their next update, however. They also state that eBuddy should be receiving many free updates in the future, so they would like your feedback. The app actually contains a feedback form under the “more” tab for you to voice your opinion quickly and easily.
Not only is eBuddy now available in the App Store for free, but it also doesn’t contain any ads, at least not any that we have seen.
eBuddy has also been added to our Apps That Push You AppList.
[Thanks to lillerik for the tip!]
Actually the most notable shortcoming is that push only works for a maximum of 30 minutes after exiting the app, after that point ebuddy logs you out and there is no more notifications. VERY LAME! also the notification you get is barley noticeable. I get a very quiet beep and no pop up message, you do get a badge telling you the number of messages waiting. But only getting notifications for 30 minutes pretty much makes the push notification useless. I think that was something you should have mentioned.
Push is not working for me. I am having my friends send me messages while I close the app and I am not getting notified of a new message until I load back up. Hopefully they will get it to work. The actually app is not bad at all other then push not working.
This app is great for a free IM client, compared to Beejive and IM+ it beats them because it’s free, there are a few annoyances like the push and the popup etc. but as stated in the post there will be a lot of updates coming through.
30 min is definitely lame. what’s the catch to no ads? are you going to sell my data? the terms are not friendly and written in twisted spaghetti that takes hours for even a lawyer to untangle.