Online Telegram Alternatives

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.

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

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

This is in my opinion the absolut number one if you are looking for privacy.

Proper end-to-end encryption makes Threema a good private way to communicate. But not as good as open source alternatives like Signal, for which you can check the source code. But Threema is way better than Facebook Messenger or 'Allo, which come from privacy-destroying companies.

Proficonf supports video communication. Also, audio quality is much better with Proficonf.

Supports video chat. Telegram doesn't.