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.
Chikwado Godwin –
Used to enjoy the app until I updated it two days ago. Since then I have been unable to receive activation code. And the worst part is that telegram does not respond to complaint on email. I have deleted and reinstalled the app countless times but it’s still not working. This is really frustrating. I think the team should use email as alternative for sending activation codes instead of SMS.
Sergei Kitaev –
Application is often very slow when opening the chats, downloading images and videos and opening stickers. Also it hard to find and configure download locations for files sent in chats. UPD. now it can’t even keep more than a page of chat in memory, so it constantly loading if I have to check and answer several messages from yesterday. UUPD. -1 stat, changed link opening setting to internal browser unprompted. NO settings should change without user confirmation.
Aleksandr –
This app has a freemium model with partially open-source code. It offers free unlimited cloud storage and a user-friendly interface. However, it has aggressive premium ads, lacks end-to-end encryption in regular chats, and has poor anti-spam protection that often blocks users without reason. Download and upload speeds are also slower than other apps.
Habiba Chowdhury –
I’ve been using Telegram for quite some time now, and overall, I’m impressed with its performance and features. The app offers a sleek and user-friendly interface that makes chatting with friends and family a breeze. Messages are delivered quickly, and I rarely experience any downtime. From group chats to channels and bots, Telegram provides a wide range of functionalities that cater to both personal and professio
GTBANK –
Used to enjoy the app until updated it two days ago. Since then I have been unable to receive activation code. And the worst part is that telegram does not respond to complaint on email. I have deleted and reinstalled the app countless times but it’s still not working. This is really frustrating. I think the team should use email as alternative for sending activation codes instead of SMS.
Sonia Novotny –
I’m extremely frustrated with Telegram’s notification system, especially for secret chats, which are supposed to be fully encrypted. I only use secret chats, and notifications for these are either completely missing or severely delayed. This problem isn’t just on my end—my friends with different devices are facing the same issues. I often receive notifications only after multiple messages are sent, and the alert tones are frequently wrong.
Leo T –
It is unclear what is happening with secret chats. Messages do not reach the interlocutors. Although there is a checkbox about “successful sending”. It turns out that you get into a situation where you cannot find out whether the message was delivered to the recipient or not. Moreover, in some situations, notifications from secret chats do not disappear after swiping or even reading the message itself.
David M. –
This app is horrible. Makes you join premium if you want to block non-contacts from sending you voice messages. Then, when you try to delete your account it makes the process very difficult. Requires you to use a browser and then when you finally figure that out it says “too many tries. Try again later.” Easy to install yet a pain to remove. Garbage app.
Internet Parasite• デジデビル ‡(Naz the Lele) –
After three years, I still love this app! I have waited for so long, but there’s still some bugs that I think isn’t yet fixed for so long. 1, it lags so badly whenever I put too many icons (channel/profile), not reaching the actual limit (please tell me the limit of how many pictures you can put as icons). 2, sometimes the changes I made on my bio/channel doesn’t seem to save (I have to redo it back). Please fix it and I’ll update my review to 5 stars! Thank you. ^_^
Rose Garcia –
WTF !