Telegram

Telegram FZ-LLC

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About this app

Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. One of the world's top 10 most downloaded apps with over 800 million active users.

FAST: Telegram is the fastest messaging app on the market, connecting people via a unique, distributed network of data centers around the globe.

SYNCED: You can access your messages from all your phones, tablets and computers at once. Telegram apps are standalone, so you don’t need to keep your phone connected. Start typing on one device and finish the message from another. Never lose your data again.

UNLIMITED: You can send media and files, without any limits on their type and size. Your entire chat history will require no disk space on your device, and will be securely stored in the Telegram cloud for as long as you need it.

SECURE: We made it our mission to provide the best security combined with ease of use. Everything on Telegram, including chats, groups, media, etc. is encrypted using a combination of 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange.

100% FREE & OPEN: Telegram has a fully documented and free API for developers, open source apps and verifiable builds to prove the app you download is built from the exact same source code that is published.

POWERFUL: You can create group chats with up to 200,000 members, share large videos, documents of any type (.DOCX, .MP3, .ZIP, etc.) up to 2 GB each, and even set up bots for specific tasks. Telegram is the perfect tool for hosting online communities and coordinating teamwork.

RELIABLE: Built to deliver your messages using as little data as possible, Telegram is the most reliable messaging system ever made. It works even on the weakest mobile connections.

FUN: Telegram has powerful photo and video editing tools, animated stickers and emoji, fully customizable themes to change the appearance of your app, and an open sticker/GIF platform to cater to all your expressive needs.

SIMPLE: While providing an unprecedented array of features, we take great care to keep the interface clean. Telegram is so simple you already know how to use it.

PRIVATE: We take your privacy seriously and will never give any third parties access to your data. You can delete any message you ever sent or received for both sides, at any time and without a trace. Telegram will never use your data to show you ads.

For those interested in maximum privacy, Telegram offers Secret Chats. Secret Chat messages can be programmed to self-destruct automatically from both participating devices. This way you can send all types of disappearing content — messages, photos, videos, and even files. Secret Chats use End-to-End Encryption to ensure that a message can only be read by its intended recipient.

We keep expanding the boundaries of what you can do with a messaging app. Don’t wait years for older messengers to catch up with Telegram — join the revolution today.

Ratings and reviews

Overall, I love the app. However, when a new feature is activated (eg. activating topics to your group, or ownership of the group being passed to another admin), the group is "upgraded to supergroup", which would be fine, if this didn't mean losing all your history (shared media, pinned messages). Basically, you're opening a new group which doesn't have direct access to the old one, where everything is stored. Would be 5🌟 if this could be fixed, it's kind of frustrating

Telegram is a great app! However, the dev team seriously need to improve the download speed when sending files (either photo or video). Regardless of which network I'm using, either mobile data or Wi-Fi, videos especially take so long to send! There are also no video previews/thumbnails when sending video files, meaning it makes it impossible to keep track of which videos you've sent until you click them to open them in an external player (videos should automatically play within the Telegram).

I do love the app but it has such an annoying bug even 0 stars wouldn't be good enough. This issue has been reported many times but it still hasn't been fixed. Media uploads get stuck forever and never complete, EVER. No matter how many times I try. I only see reports of this issue online and no fixes. I'm just stuck with it. It is to a point where I can't send ANYTHING on telegram anymore. Making the app virtually useless to me.