Telegram 17+

Fast. Secure. Powerful‪.‬

Telegram Messenger LLP

    • 4.0 • 122 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. One of the world's top 10 most downloaded apps with over 500 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.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What’s New

Version 10.12.2

- Bug fixes and minor improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

4.0 out of 5
122 Ratings

122 Ratings

henry1749 ,

A powerful app, going the way of those it once outshone

A reliable, powerful and seamless alternative to the its weakling competitors. Has served me well since 2017.

It is powerful enough to double as a form of cloud storage; my use case for this has been for musical projects – we frequently pass projects and demos back and forth using telegram. It is head and shoulders above its competitors.

Sadly, in recent years, attempts at monetisation and what appear to be near-constant but unecessary update prompts have begun plaguing telegram. It will be interesting to see if telegram can continue to maintain its lead as easily the most powerful desktop / mobile messaging app in years to come.

Neoconair ,

Great recent update, but one bug

If I hover the mouse over the settings tab, a mini-menu appears offering three options (Passcode, Dark Mode, Mute). These options can all be found elsewhere in the settings menu so this is a little annoying.

mcuk99 ,

Generally good but resource hungry, device sync bugs and scammer friendly

I use it every day and generally think it's pretty good.

However - couple of major things.

There is a significant problem with message sync, possibly limited to subgroups. If I'm away from my device (iOS or MacOS) for a period of time, when returning, I only get the most recent message or two. Going into 'view as messages' mode is the only way to re-sync the messages and they then appear in the sub-groups.

They also need to do a lot more to prevent scammers lurking and direct messaging people _without_ forcing people to pay.

Conversely, it seems far too easy for someone to decide they're going to make your life difficult by falsely reporting you as nefarious in some way. Need to do more on this guys.

App Privacy

The developer, Telegram Messenger LLP, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Location
  • Contact Info
  • Contacts
  • User Content
  • Identifiers

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More