Flamingo App Reviews

App doesn’t show my group chats D:

Very nice interface, but use it to make me cry. I do not know where to find the account settings. I do not understand accounts connected or not. And many other things.

this is dissapointing what service limitation?

It is absolutely not worth the 10$ I paid

Its a good app, but it consumes way too much RAM, its always over 500 MBs, which is insane considering what the app does. Fix this as soon as possible.

The app is exactly what I’ve been looking for in terms of being a beautiful, functional interface to Google Hangouts. The only problem it’s pretty buggy. It crashed during the setup process and then will lose the connect to google servers pretty regularly. I’ve only been using it a day, so hopefully my experience get’s better. Pros: - Great interface, beautiful design Cons: - Bugs - Wish it could sync messages on the google servers (it only ‘remembers’ the messages send from the app)

I love this app but it just keeps freezing and stalls. Please fix asap. $9.99 is already a steep price for something that works 1/3 of the time.

Flamingo tries to address a serious need: modern cross service messaging apps for the mac. We need a new Adium, and Flamingo may be it. Currently though, it’s not. Flamingo hangs often, and the design has some quirks. Most notably, the messaging experience itself falls short. Animations are cumbersome and make me feel like the app is slow and chat bubbles are too close to the text area. I’d also prefer a flatter design, but that’s just taste. Another bad choice is making the contacts pane expand when you hover over it. It’s hard to explain, but it creates some really annoying effects when trying to use it. I’m hoping that this decision will be reconsidered, or that I’ll at least get the option to disable it through the app’s settings. Overall, I keep coming back to Flamingo because I really want it to be good. Every update gets my hopes up, and I’m eagerly awaiting the next one.

Extremely buggy! Crashes all the time! Also it doesn’t support group messaging in Hangouts!

I know it was clearly stated in the description of the application, but I still feel like that is a huge part of the ‘Hangouts’ Experience that Google was trying to provide. And not having it on this desktop client makes me feel like it’s just another GoogleTalk application, and there’s nothing that Messages can’t do that this does.

I use this as a hangouts client, as advertised. For $9, I expect it to work. It does not sync messages originated by you in other clients (like the native ones). So, if you use the mobile Hangout clients, you will find it unusable. It’s a good beginning, and if these critical bugs were fixed, it would be very helpful.

Adding a Jabber account doesnt work (just sits spinning), and there are no configuration options for it.

I think the developers are off to a good start, however Flamingo still has a few issues: - Switching in and out of full screen and opening chat windows causes some weird issues - There’s a lack of keyboard shortcuts (close conversation) - I’d love to see pinning a conversation to the top added I don’t think it’s right to be charging $10 for this just yet.

*Updated* Beautiful design, this app has strong potential to finally replace Adium for me. Until 1.1, the app was extremel slow and crashed enough to make it completely unusable. As of March 2014 it is MUCH faster and more stable and is living up to the promise! A few things that would make it even better: - Pull in full chat histories when a conversation is loaded, not just histories from within Flamingo - Sort contacts by importance or frequency of contact, not alphabetical - Some more general polish, a few jitters here and there - Better keyboard shortcuts and documentation for these.. I want to play this thing like a piano

They state no group audio/video for Hangouts - no group IM either though.

Looks pretty, but does not seem to load any historical data, and then has some weird UI jumpiness at on certain things. In time it might be better.

looks great and sophisiticated and is probably one of the only nice looking apps that has both facebook and gtalk integration, would be great if there was a chat history sync option tho and if the contacts were organized by recently contacted

Constantly asks me to re-sign into my accounts. Certain accounts don’t show up in the buddy list until I collapse the other accounts and then they just magically appear. Basically, this app drives me up the wall. It has a great UI, but it barely functions. Feels like a beta.

Flamingo is an XMPP chat client. XMPP is a communications protocol used by Facebook and Google Talk to send text chat messages, so the developer includes an easy way to hook into those services using offically supported methods. However, they cannot reach deep into those services to grab things like message history or connect to video and audio chat. They also aren’t able to do group chats on fb and google, so they just don’t put group chat functionally in the program. It’s kind of cool how Flamingo works within those limitations. It offers a bunch of ways to make one to one chat cool, like inline photos and videos. One thing I really like is unified contacts: if you have a friend who uses multiple services, Flamingo will automatically choose the one where they’re currently online. If they are online multiple services, you can switch services in the chat window pretty easily. And it all fits in one window that you don’t have to think about too much. I don’t blame the developers for talking about hangouts and facebook before mentioning XMPP. I also think they did as good a job as they could of marketing it to people who don’t know about XMPP while still handling exspectations, but they obviously didn’t get to everyone. I do understand that it isn’t what everyone wants out of chat client. However, I was looking for an XMPP client, so I’m super happy with it, and I think a lot of people could be too.

Disconnects frequently and sometimes asks me to re-login 10 times in an hour, that’s insame. Switching back to messages, defintiely not worth 10$, maybe not even $0.99!