XMPPFramework vs MessageKit

XMPPFramework

An XMPP Framework in Objective-C for Mac and iOS (by robbiehanson)

Messaging

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MessageKit

A community-driven replacement for JSQMessagesViewController (by MessageKit)

Messaging Messenger Message Jsqmessagesviewcontroller Swift Viewcontroller HacktoberFest iOS Chat

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messagekit.github.io

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XMPPFramework		MessageKit
	Project
-	Mentions	4
5,918	Stars	5,884
-	Growth	0.4%
0.0	Activity	7.4
27 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Objective-C	Language	Swift
Unknown	License	MIT License

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XMPPFramework

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

MessageKit

Posts with mentions or reviews of MessageKit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-04.

What lib should I choose for Chat?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 20 Feb 2023

Hi there. I'm going to do the Chat app for my company. My best choice so far is MessageKit: https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit Any other options from you guys? Thanks
Open Source recommendations for chat UI
2 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 4 Apr 2022
I am trying to implement a messaging system on my app with bubbles. How do you implement the UI?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 27 Oct 2021

Here you go : https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit
MessageKit - Return Multiple Custom Cells
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 7 Jun 2021

I referred to these answered questions https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit/issues/1454

What are some alternatives?

When comparing XMPPFramework and MessageKit you can also consider the following projects:

JSQMessagesViewController

Chatto - A lightweight framework to build chat applications, made in Swift

NoChat - A lightweight chat UI framework for iOS.

Messenger Chat with Firebase - Messenger Clone - Real-time iOS Chat with Firebase Firestore written in Swift

Smooch - Smooch

MessengerKit - :speech_balloon: A UI framework for building messenger interfaces on iOS

ChatLayout - ChatLayout is an alternative solution to MessageKit. It uses custom UICollectionViewLayout to provide you full control over the presentation as well as all the tools available in UICollectionView. It supports dynamic cells and supplementary view sizes.

mChat - iOS - Real-time messaging app 🎨

chat-sdk-ios - Chat SDK iOS - Open Source Mobile Messenger

SlackTextViewController