Kotatogram Desktop is an modified version of official Telegram Desktop app. Aside from having all features that official app does, it has some more features, such as:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Open Source Telegram Alternatives
The best open source alternative to Telegram is Signal. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Telegram and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Telegram are Element, Tox, Wire and Matrix.
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Telegram alternatives are mainly Instant Messengers, but if you're looking for Group Chat Apps or Encrypted Chat Apps you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Online, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux, Android + Free and Self-Hosted. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Telegram.
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- 13 Kotatogram Desktop alternatives
Lightweight and powerful XMPP client for iPhone and iPad, with audio and video calls and built-in privacy
exteraGram - the unofficial modification is based on two versions, the official sources and the unofficial FOSS-modification of Telegram.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Android
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Open Source
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Flatpak
- AppImageHub
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- KDE
- Matrix.org
- Flathub
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Monal is an open source iOS and macOS XMPP Chat-Client. It can connect to any standard XMPP chat server such as Gtalk or Facebook chat.
Open source anonymous, registration free P2P chat. You communicate directly and no logs are saved on the server. Otr.to is browser based, which means that you don't need to install or ask somebody to install software.
14 WhatsApp Desktop alternativesUnofficial whatsapp web desktop client for OSX, Linux and Windows. Build with Electron.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Tinfoil Chat (TFC) is a FOSS+FHD peer-to-peer messaging system that relies on high assurance hardware architecture to protect users from passive collection, MITM attacks and most importantly, remote key exfiltration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
At this point in the digital world, our personal digital metadata – not just our messages, but data about who talks to whom, when, and where – has been marketed, auctioned, and monetized hundreds of thousands of times over.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Android
- iPhone
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