Mango 3.0 · out now Mac · iPhone · iPad · App Store

Twelve years on, Mango is back.

A from-scratch Mac IRC client that reads as native — not as a webview in a window frame. IRCv3 caps, SASL and chathistory from the first launch. Multi-network, with a console worth opening. macOS, iPhone, and iPad.

App Store · iPhone & iPad Mac App Store

macOS 15 · iOS 17 · iPadOS 17

macOS·#swift on Libera.Chat

What's inside

Everything an IRC client should be in 2026.

Caps you'd actually use. A members list that doesn't choke at 600. Backed by a proper Swift engine, not a fragile shim around a CLI.

01 / IRCv3

First-class capabilities, not a checkbox list.

Capability negotiation, SASL PLAIN & EXTERNAL, server-time, message-tags, chathistory, and batch. Caps are state machines — tested with fixtures from the IRCv3 spec.

saslmessage-tagschathistoryserver-timebatch

02 / Networking

Several networks, one window worth opening.

Per-network connection state, per-channel unread, optimistic joins, real reconnect with backoff. Connect to Libera, OFTC, Ergo, your bouncer — same UI, same shortcuts.

Libera.Chat 3 channels

OFTC offline

03 / Themes

Five themes. Two modes. Never fluorescent.

Mango, Rosé Pine, Rosé Pine Moon, Rosé Pine Dawn, Nord — picked for sustained reading, not for screenshots. Vibrancy washes are real NSVisualEffectView, not faked gradients.

04 / Native

Native, not a webview in a window frame.

Swift 6, SwiftUI, The Composable Architecture. Transport on swift-nio with real TLS 1.3. Tuned for Apple silicon, hardened-runtime, sandboxed, signed by Mediaware.

languageSwift 6.0

uiSwiftUI · TCA 1.25+

transportswift-nio · TLS 1.3

05 / Keyboard

Made for keyboards that earn their keycaps.

Jump palette, slash commands, per-network number switching. Designed first on a 60% keyboard, then made nice for trackpads.

⌘K jump⌘/ commands⌘1‑9 networks

06 / iCloud

One channel list, on every device you own.

Servers, channels, identities, and theme picks travel with you over iCloud. Open Mango on a fresh Mac and find yourself already in #swift. Family Sharing is wired up, if anyone in the household reaches for it.

syncschannels · identities · themes

acrossmacOS · iOS · iPadOS

alsoFamily Sharing

Themes

Pick a temperament.

Tinted vibrancy and dusty pastels, picked for sustained reading. Click a card — the whole site (and the preview above) follows. Want more? Browse the theme store.

Open the theme store

Story

Same name, same citrus. Nothing else carries over.

Mango first shipped in 2012. Objective-C, OpenGL, written in a different decade for a different macOS. The original stayed on the App Store for fourteen years, increasingly out of place on a Retina, Apple Silicon, vibrancy-everywhere Mac.

3.0 is a complete rewrite. Swift, SwiftUI, The Composable Architecture. A fresh IRC engine on swift-nio, with IRCv3 caps and SASL from day one. The legacy code didn't carry forward; only the name and the colour did.

Ready?

Mango 3.0 is on the App Store.

Out now for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

App Store · iPhone & iPad Mac App Store

Live App Store rank

The Mango 3.1 TestFlight beta opens soon. Head to the Support page to join the invite list.

Later in 2026Mango+ — push notifications across Mac, iPhone, and iPad, plus hosted always-on sessions. A small monthly subscription, kept that way.