You're being downvoted, but I originally had the same question. It's actually a native app. It's mostly Objective C, but increasingly written in Swift. https

You're being downvoted, but I originally had the same question. It's actually a native app. It's mostly Objective C, but increasingly written in Swift. https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios There is clearly room for improvement, but apparently they just hired a handful of new iOS developers to work on it. Good things should be coming soon.