Telegram
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Maximize your messaging experience with efficient communication, speedy delivery, and optional end-to-end encrypted Secret Chats. Engage in unlimited channels and groups up to 200,000 members. Enhance chat management and media sharing with Telegram Premium and its exclusive benefits. All core features remain free.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Linux Mobile
- Android Wear
- PortableApps.com
- FreeBSD
- Apple Car Play
- Android Auto
Features
Telegram News & Activities
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Recent News
- POX published news article about Telegram
Telegram introduces Star Messages, cheaper user verification, Chromecast support, and moreTelegram has introduced a new update that enhances privacy controls for content creators and public...
- Maoholguin published news article about Telegram
Telegram's latest update introduces AI sticker search, timestamped videos, and moreIn its latest update, Telegram has added several new features, among which stand out a new AI-power...
- POX published news article about Telegram
Telegram now lets you move gifts to the blockchain, send them to channels, and moreTelegram has rolled out its second update for January, introducing six new features centered around...
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What is Telegram?
Telegram information
Developed by
Telegram LLC Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $4 and $6 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Social & Communications, Security & Privacy, Office & Productivity, Photos & Graphics, Remote Work & Education, File Sharing, Travel & Location, Video & MoviesApple AppStore
- Updated Mar 26, 2025
- 4.03 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Great app, although a little confusing to start using at first. Was looking for a replacement to another messaging app that wasn't private enough (don't trust anything owned by Facebook anymore) and this one seemed quite popular and safe. End-to-end encryption, self-destruct timers and most importantly, their secret chats that cannot be accessed on the cloud are great.
While the client itself is open source, there are a lot of parts of telegram that aren't. It is not possible to look through the whole process of one client writing another. I think to make that problem more clear telegram should actually be put in the category Free and not open source.
I'm questioning the "Open source" as well. Even the client isn't really "Open source" any more at least not the one they are using. The provide an open source code base on Github but you can tell by there releases and updates that they themselves are not using it in a very open manner.
Thanks for changing the label to Free, I think at least for now it fits way better than Open Source. Anyways we will see on their website they are claiming that eventually they want to make everything open source even though I doubt it.
they can't put their encription code open source, so exept this is opensource
Thanks for changing the tag to free, I think it has the correct labeling now.
ups, I didnt noticed it, Im new in this site and Im trying to understand it, so please be patient
From the Telegram FAQ:
Q: Why not open source everything? All code will be released eventually. We started with the most useful parts — a well-documented API that allows developers to build new Telegram apps, and open source clients that can be verified by security specialists.
Well, nice that they want to do it at some point, but as for now, the security-critical parts are not open source. As long as that is the case, the tag should be free not open source.
I totally agree to Johannski. All code will be released eventually is wishy-washy.
Not end-to-end encrypted. Does not offer encrypted messages except for private message mode.
Accounts get limited and banned for no apparent reason. At first a few times my account got limited temporary, for 7 days or so, and now it says it's banned from participating in public activity period.
The "spam info bot" always says I'm limited for contacting strangers, but i never done that on that account, let alone sending spam/advertising. What I actually used to do is infrequently post comments in public channels criticizing Russian government. So either telegram purposefully punishes users for that type of activity (which wouldn't be something unimaginable), or the reporting system is easily abused.
It's very mid. It says it's open source, which I mean... I guess. I've seen reviews saying it's only partial. For stickers it's really good and for uploading/sharing (big) files and media is really awesome. I'm sad I'm paying for it, but I'm going to cancel. EE2E is definitely a scam. it's not on by default, only when you go on "secret chats." It's good that it's not owned by Big Tech, but in late December 2024 or early January 2025. some executive decided it will now share data to local authorities, which in my opinion, threw everything it stood for out the window, all because the current CEO's current allegations of terrorism, abuse, or trafficking. I'd advise to go looking for something else.
Centralized. Asks for your phone number even if you try to register from desktop! The 'encryption' is a total scam, as with many similar services - they're the ones doing the encryption, so what makes you think they can't decrypt your messages just as easily? They know the whole method.
Telegram has good userbase, but they are oblivious to the platform's fundamental flaws.
This telegram to me is an abomination. Much worse than a Jabber chat. Yet millions were buried on promoting it, so the stupid found their refuge this way. I could register without a smartphone and submitting a phone number years ago. Now it's simply a KGB shithole demanding even on a PC that you have a phone version of it installed. It died for me the moment it wanted a cell phone number from me. When something starts asking for my phone number, I stop using it. Good for slaves though.