Telegram Alternatives

Signal has end-to-end encryption by default, Telegram does not. Signal does not store your conversations and files in the cloud, Telegram does.

Signal uses open source, end-to-end encryption to keep your messages to another Signal user secure and private. It installs on your Android and replaces your default messaging app. (On iPhone it's a separate app.) It's super easy to use. You can still send messages to people who don't have it, but I'd encourage everyone to use it. Plain SMS messages are routinely recorded and stored forever without your persmission. Signal combats that in a very user friendly way.

requires a phone number, uses it own protocols,

server is open source, but seemed to be closed source for a short time

If you are already making the effort to switch, use element instead, since it uses the open protocol instead of an own

im not so sure, but it helpfull i guess

Unlike Telegram, Signal is fully end-to-end encrypted, even for non-disappearing messages.

Telegram is amazing, the downside is that the server is closed source and E2EE is not by default on groups, it would be nice if they added a option to keep all chats E2EE by default when signing up or in the options of the app, but overall a great app

Is a Open Source project App and also Server

Element is structured more honestly out in the open, compared to Telegram.

Great group functionality

Element is severely lacking in uptake. It could be the best messenger in the world (and may well be) but ultimately, if I can't talk to my friends on there, there's no incentive for me to use it.

I like this because of fact its purpose is to be decentralized. however time shows as knowledge is needed to bridges be made from other platforms.

Great encryption, uses matrix protocol, so it's decentralized, while offering similar and even more functions.

But the UI isn't as intuitive as the telegram one, and the encryption sometimes can't decrypt a message.

Better than telegram and discord but need a lot of work to be popular

The group features match up to telegrams with a more discordesqe UI.

Ugly UI and less user friendly

P2P encrypted communication

always End-to-End encrypted; servers in the EU; high quality audio and video calls;

Multiplatform, chat, audio and video calling with great quality and: Clientside is already open source and they are currently working on completely opensourcing the serverside too. Great application.

Privacy and security focused, lot of features but way behind Telegram's user experience design.

It is fully open source instead Telegram (server and client).

Always end-to-end encrypted. Fully open source.

Matrix is a protocol used by i.e. Element, not a messenger iself

Decentralized and encrypted. Available on all major devices. There is video conferencing and the ability to show a desktop.

Hangouts is not end-to-end encrypted. Google, who own it, make money by spying on users (every bit of info they can get) and selling it to advertisers. That's appalling. Telegram is not perfect but it is end-to-end encrypted, which means that only the intended recipient can read your messages - not the case with Hangouts. Google can see everything, and others can force them to give that info up (e.g. by subpoena).

Hangouts lacks most of the administrative-type functionality that Telegram has.

Hangouts does not care about your privacy at all. Telegram is primarily marketed as a private communication service

Not encrypted. Owned by Google.

everything is encrypted and gives cloud drive, git, a stellar wallet other than a chat

it is not hosted virtually... you cannot access data once it got downloaded on other devices later... plus very limited on sizes and what can be uploaded... tons of limits on so much...

for true user of telegram, whatsapp fail to compete.... imagine having group, in telegram, the new members can see the old messages...

man way not same level even if same category

absolutely unsecure, E2EE is questionable, and Facebook are planning on implementing a feature to decrypt messages for advertisers (as if that was not a thing since they acquired whatsapp...)

Too many limitations and is owned by Facebook.

WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted and relies on the Signal protocol to protect the user's privacy while Telegram uses its own custom encryption algorithm, which is a big flaw in cryptography. Telegram only fully encrypts communications when starting a "secret chat", but the default conversations are not secured.

Whatsapp is the 386 of instant messaging. Telegram receives fresh new features every month, so their streets are increasingly far away