If case you wish to talk or communicate with all of your own contacts in a single place, then you will need to pay attention to this IM+ review. This is actually a messenger application that supports for a great number of instant messaging accounts and social network sites including Beep, Facebook chat, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, MySpace, Renren, Odnoklassniki, Skype, Yandex IM, Yahoo, AIM, and VKontakte. The following are the IM+ review along with its system requirement, download link and all the things that you may want to know about this multi-messenger app.
To start with this IM+ review, let’s take a closer look at the interface of IM+ app. When the first time you launch it, you will see the three menu buttons at the top section that consist of Contacts, Chats and Account. Under the Accounts menu there is a list of social network and instant messaging accounts that you will need to choose by simply tapping on your desired account. Once you have chosen the account then you have to fill in the username and password. After you have logged on, you can see the contacts list under Contacts menu. To see the open chats, you can simply navigate to the Chats menu. The interface is quite simple and you can switch faster between chats by just swiping from side to side.
The IM+ app is actually full-featured for example you can allow yourself available to different groups, you will also have groups set up in all of the different messengers. Moreover, users will be also able to hide their offline contacts and save the chat history. There will be also the Compact Mode which has the capability to minimize contacts so user will no longer see the buddy icons. This is really helpful especially for expanding the screen space.
Under the Contacts menu, you will also notice the option to use the IM+ Beep. This is a free mobile-to-mobile in-app messenger that is compatible with iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry platforms. It basically uses your current internet connection to send or receive messages to or from your own address book contacts. It can also be used as the SMS replacement. For the BlackBerry users, there will be the benefit to enjoy Skype features on their own BlackBerry by using the IM+ Talk. This service uses the free VoIP calls in WiFi areas and also over the EDGE and 3G network.
So, if you decide to download install the free version IM+ you can simply click these links based on your own platform: Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, iOS. This free version comes with ads indeed, and if you wish for the ads-free version you can purchase the IM+ Pro with the price of $9.99. Just click one of these links to buy the Pro version: Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, iOS. This app requires at least OS 2.1 (Eclair), Windows Phone 7.5, BlackBerry OS 4.5 and iOS 3.0.
As the final words, this IM+ review has been conducted to know the pros and cons of this app. The benefits are the cross-platform capability, simple interface, rich-featured, and easy to use even for the beginner users. Unfortunately, you may experience that the app will freeze and crash occasionally whenever logging in to your account. [IS]