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Nekogram X
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Expands on nekogram
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Slightly outdated
But still tries to catch up.
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Translate
Translate feature for other languages.
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Many different variants
Install only the arch you need, along with needed proxies.
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Telegram F-Droid
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Fully open source
More trust worthy than the official.
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Slower updates
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Matching UI
No differences between the official and FOSS UI and settings.
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Emoji is ugly
Using FOSS emoji but this one is not good as IOS emoji -_-
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Dont need Google Play Service
Telegram FOSS have Notification Services, they can running in the background without GPlay Services or another services.
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Not on Google Play
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Plus Messenger
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Let's you forward messages without quoting
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New features on Telegram take time to roll out
Sometimes rolling out the new features takes time.
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More tabs
Plus Messenger sorts all your conversations into multiple tabs for easier navigation.
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Not privacy friendly
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Tabbed view
Lets you have multiple tabs for personal chats, groups, channels, bots etc
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Old API
Telegram doesn't use the latest API.
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Go to first message supported
The feature to go with one click to the very first message of the chat instead of having to scroll up a lot is supported.
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Buggy
There might be more bugs on this version on particular devices - there is no concrete proof of this.
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Themeable
Different themes to choose from in order to personalize how the app looks.
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No option to ignore messages from blocked contacts in group chats
For example, nekogram has this useful feature.
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Message details
For example - see the exact size of the message - be it a file like a video or a simple text message. Or see the exact timestamp with the year and milliseconds included.
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Schedule message for when online
Ability to schedule the message to send when the receiver is online
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Select all chats option
You can select all chats by pressing one button.
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More icons showing as options
There is less of a need to press on the 3 dots to reach more features because more of them are already shown.
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Delete from cache directly from the file (video/voice/PDF)
Choose which files to delete from the cache directly from the file, for example, if you have one specific big video you want to delete from the cache this is possible.
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Private links to messages
Generate private links to messages, these links only work if you have access to the chat.
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Can apply saved themes
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Save original filenames
Able to download and save filenames with their original mame
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Presence icon in chat list
Shows presence based on last seen directly from the chat list with an icon. (green, light grey, dark grey, black).
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Add to home screen
Add chats to home screen from, even a few in go (batch adding).
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Telegram
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Free and convenient large file sharing
Copy/paste videos, gifs, images, geolocation, documents, and even executable files. Drag over files for practically any time up to 2GB in size. Images can be compressed, too.
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Not fully open source
Telegram has an open API and protocol free for everyone, but the backend software is not open source. Therefore 100% privacy can not be evaluated.
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Free of cost
The application is available free of cost.
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Can only be used with a phone number
It is not possible to activate and use Telegram by mail etc. You need a phone number.
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Privacy focused
In addition to the end-to-end encryption [only in secret chats] that provides privacy to communications, the app also includes self destructing timers for chats, and the ability to permanently delete messages, yours and theirs, from your and their devices.
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Only "Secret Chat" messages are encrypted end to end
The only way to get end-to-end encryption (client-client) using Telegram is to use the Secret Chat function, anything through the service is server-client encrypted. Also secret chat is only implemented in the mobile apps, meaning there is no way to encrypt messages end-to-end when using the desktop client or the web browser client.
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Media messaging
Videos, gifs, images, geolocation, and documents.
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"Secret Chat" feature is not available for desktop client
Secret chats with end to end encryption are only available on mobile apps.
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Channels for one way broadcasting
Broadcasting channels suitable for announcing things.
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No source code sintax highlighting
Telegram does not have source code syntax highlighting, making it difficult to share code snippets.
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Beautiful UI
Very customizable with a lot of clean looking options.
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Does not work for visually impaired
Doesn't work for visually impaired.
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Possible to send photos and videos without compression
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Does not support spherical 360° photos
Spherical 360° photos becoming more popular these days, but Telegram does not support such format.
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Supergroups of up to 200,000 people
In Supergroups, anyone along with admins can delete their messages from all sides. A message can be pinned to the top. All of the user's messages can be deleted by an administrator, and they can be banned and reported as well. Supergroups can have a public link (outside of Asia, due to high spam volumes), which is also a username.
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Does not support text messaging
You can NOT make it your default text messaging App.
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Two-step verification
You can set up an additional password to your account, which can be reset by your email. You don't have to use an email if you do not want to. If you lose access to your email or forget your password, you will be able to reset it via text message if your account is over seven days old and will receive it within a week (in case you recover anything before then).
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Secure
Telegram uses an open source MTProto encryption protocol that provides complete end-to-end encryption for secret chats. To show off their confidence in the protocol the company behind Telegram has organized $200,000 and $300,000 challenges to break the encryption. So far there have been no winners.
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Saved messages
You can write messages to yourself. You can write some notes, add links, and see everything across all your devices.
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Cloud chat keys are kept in different jurisdiction
Even though encryption used for cloud-based storage (e.g. Gmail, Facebook, iCloud) may not be as secure as end-to-end encryption or zero-knowledge storage, Telegram does the most that it can by holding keys to chats in different jurisdictions, requiring intergovernmental cooperation to obtain the keys. This is aside from whatever other security measures have been taken, of course.
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Multiplatform native client apps
There are native desktop, mobile and web client apps, that are optimized for speed and are light on memory usage.
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Open source client apps
Client apps are open source, making whole service more trustworthy.
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Unlimited storage
Unlimited number of files can be stored forever on the cloud. You can upload files up to 1.5 GB each.
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Voice and video messages
You can post voice and video messages if you are too lazy to write text messages.
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Group Voice Chat
This Discord-like feature adds to the interactivity of the application.
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Pinned Messages
You can pin messages to the top of groups or supergroups so members will see them when opening the group.
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Self-destruct messages
Messages in individual chats can be set to self destruct on a timer. They will disappear after the timer expires. Messages in all new chats can be set to self-destruct with a global auto-delete timer in Settings > Privacy and Security > Auto-Delete Messages.
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Edit or delete messages after sending them
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Banned in China
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Save time with inline bots and link previews
Unfortunately, on the desktop videos don't play, but images are viewable without visiting popular websites like imgur and Instagram. You can play YouTube videos and others within the app, so you don't need to embed code or anything. With inline bots, such as @gif, @pic/bing, @vid/YouTube, etc, you can look things up without leaving the client or chat that you're in. Simply type the name and some keywords and wait for the results to load.
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@mentions
You can ping people to get their attention by @mentioning them.
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Desktop app handles HiDPI
The desktop app has a built in setting to scale the UI of the app up to 200% which allows for those with 4k monitors/screens to use the app without scaling issues.
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High quality calls
Uses the latest GPL audio codecs, such as Opus, an adaptative high-quality codec that supersedes AAC at any bitrate.
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Customer support is within the app
Although it's volunteer based, but still pretty top-notch if available, which it tends to be.
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Large groups can have channels called 'Topics'
Topics are now available in groups of 100+ members and have a sleek two-column layout and new buttons to quickly navigate. A default topic called General is now in every topic group, holding the group’s service messages and previous message history.
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Popular in the USA
On SimilarWeb you can see that Telegram is on the top 15 among all communication apps.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows phone, UWP
Publisher:
Various companies affiliated with Telegram
File Size:
2048 MB
End-to-end encryption:
Secret chats
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