This article reviews FlexiSPY and MSpy’s ability to monitor Yahoo! Messenger (YM) IM logs from your iPhone target phone. To understand our testing methods, .
Parent company AOL doesn’t make public any stats on YM’s user base. However Yahoo! Messenger was one of the first widely popular IM platforms and has been around since 1998. Yahoo! was also one of the first popular search engines and free email services, and boosted YM’s popularity by integrating it into the free Yahoo! email service. Because of this anyone with a Yahoo! email account already has a Yahoo! Messenger account.
By integrating Yahoo Search, Email, News, Games, Dating and even the popular photo sharing site Flickr all under a single account and home page login, Yahoo has remained popular with both IM and email users of all ages.
Yahoo! Messenger Options
Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone allows users to communicate by text, emoticons and photo sharing, as well as streaming video and voice calls.
There are 7 basic types of chat information sent with Yahoo Messenger for iPhone:
- Contact Name
- Contact Photo
- Text chat
- Emoticons
- Photo sharing
- Video call
- Audio call
We use all of these for testing both FlexiSPY and its competitors. In the screenshot Fig. 1 you can see a typical screen from YM as it appears on iPhone. The screenshot here shows both text and images being sent and received with YM on iPhone.
How does mSpy capture Yahoo! Messenger?
mSpy does not monitor any Yahoo! Messenger logs – it is simply not offered. This is compared to 4 out of 7 types of YM chat data successfully captured by FlexiSPY.
MSpy only claims to capture Skype, WhatsApp, Viber and iMessage for iPhone – not Yahoo! Messenger or any other IM apps. We take a look at how MSpy captures these in other reviews from this series.
How does FlexiSPY capture Yahoo! Messenger?
FlexiSPY accurately captured 4 out of 7 types of YM communications, including all YM text logs plus photos sent between our target iPhone user and multiple contacts, which were also identified by contact names and profile pictures.
FlexiSPY chat logs are displayed in the dashboard similar to YM on the phone itself, with alternating contacts on each side. Multiple contacts can easily be viewed and selected from a list beside of the main log screen.
FlexiSPY is the only cell phone monitoring and spyphone software to capture Yahoo! Messenger logs on iPhone – this makes FlexiSPY the only choice for YM text and photo monitoring of iPhone target phones.
Only FlexiSPY monitors YM logs on iPhone – no other mobile monitoring software offers it – including MSpy.
FlexiSPY vs MSpy – Who Captures More Yahoo! Messenger?
MSpy does not offer any Yahoo! Messenger monitoring for iPhone. Therefore MSpy can’t capture any YM communications from an iPhone target.
Although FlexiSPY doesn’t yet capture YM’s live audio and video calls, it did successfully capture all YM text messages and photos, plus contact names and profile pictures (emoticons presented in ASCII equivalents). This information is displayed with each contact on alternating sides in an easy to read view. (See Fig. 3). FlexiSPY sends these logs to your personal online archive for review at any time, inside your FlexiSPY account.
FlexiSPY offers more tracking and monitoring across all smartphone communications. If your target uses Yahoo! Messenger on iPhone you’ll need FlexiSPY to monitor it, as FlexiSPY is currently the only cell phone monitoring software to offer Yahoo! Messenger IM logging on iPhone.
FlexiSPY also captures other popular IM services which are summarized in the table below and in the blog article here. These are compared in separate articles from this series.
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