Nova Launcher Prime vs Telegram

Nova Launcher provides an experience that's similar to stock Android, but adds multiple customization options. Customization ranges in ways that interactions and the user interface can be changed both aesthetically and functionally.

Speed of Nova Launcher is one of the app's key points. Even with a lot of widgets Nova Launcher performs speedy.

Options include horizontal pages, vertical scrolling or list. The user is also able to adjust the background transparency. This way the users drawer can look unique while also offering more or less apps on the page depending on their preference.

From the Nova Settings menu, users can create a custom grid size for their desktop and app drawer, up to a maximum of 12 columns and rows. Discriminating users can also adjust the size of the margins on the top, bottom, left and right. This allows for users to set how many widgets and apps can fit on these screens.

Not all custom launchers allow custom icon packs. Nova supports most custom icon packs that are in the Play Store.

Turning on infinite scrolling allows the user to move seamlessly among all of their home screens, rather than having to scroll backward when the last page is reached. This proves particularly useful if the user has a large number of homescreens. Infinite scrolling can also be enabled in the app drawer.

There are extra bottom row dock pages accessible when swiping left or right on the dock. In Nova's settings there is support for a maximum of five dock pages and a minimum of one.

This way you can set up to 25 shortcuts in the dock that can be scrolled though, leaving plenty of room on the home screen for widgets and other apps.

Nova has the ability to add an assortment of action shortcuts to the home-screen which can be performed when swiping on particular areas or icons (as opposed to when tapping).

Nova Launcher has the ability to add folders into the app drawer making for easy sorting of many apps.

The user can sort their folders in the drawer and home-screen alphabetically.

The app drawer and widgets take full advantage of a tablets extra screen real estate.

With the custom grids, most widgets can be sized to specifications which give added control over Android home screens.

Within Nova's setting the user can set the notification bar to stay hidden, allowing for more screen real estate.

It has an option to lock the icons and widgets in place as well as locks out the ability to delete apps, preventing accidental rearranging or deletions.

1. Create a folder in the drawer.
2. Drag the folder from the drawer to a home screen.
3. Add more items to the drawer folder.
4. The item gets added automatically to the home screen folder (because it is the same folder).

In addition, the user can set a custom icon for the folder (or for each shortcut).

Use gestures (swipe up, double tap, etc.) to easily launch apps.

Solid performance for getting work (and play) done, no crashes, no slow downs.

Allows you to customize scroll effects, scroll speeds, animation speed, app animations, gestures.

All of these options allow for very individualistic differences in how the launcher performs and looks, making for a great way to set ones phone apart from others.

A free version, Nova Launcher is available, but it lacks gestures, unread counts, custom drawer groups, ability to hide apps from the app drawer, icon swipes and additional scroll effects.

Users can save their configuration in a backup file and quickly restore it.

Nova Launcher Prime offers unread counts for all supported apps, a feature not available on all launchers. Although it requires the free installation of TeslaUnread.

What TeslaUnread does is add unread count numbers to certain application icons in ones application drawer and home screen, giving a quick overview of how many unread notifications they have in that supported application.

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.

The application is available free of cost.

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.

Videos, gifs, images, geolocation, and documents.

Broadcasting channels suitable for announcing things.

Very customizable with a lot of clean looking options.

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.

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).

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.

You can write messages to yourself. You can write some notes, add links, and see everything across all your devices.

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.

There are native desktop, mobile and web client apps, that are optimized for speed and are light on memory usage.

Client apps are open source, making whole service more trustworthy.

Unlimited number of files can be stored forever on the cloud. You can upload files up to 1.5 GB each.

You can post voice and video messages if you are too lazy to write text messages.

This Discord-like feature adds to the interactivity of the application.

You can pin messages to the top of groups or supergroups so members will see them when opening the group.

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.

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.

You can ping people to get their attention by @mentioning them.

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.

Uses the latest GPL audio codecs, such as Opus, an adaptative high-quality codec that supersedes AAC at any bitrate.

Although it's volunteer based, but still pretty top-notch if available, which it tends to be.

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.

On SimilarWeb you can see that Telegram is on the top 15 among all communication apps.