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Telegram Messenger LLP

    • 3.5 • 51 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

3.5 out of 5
51 Ratings

51 Ratings

Lmaksodokx ,

Suggestions

Hi, I enjoy telegram but for the desktop app i have a one main suggestion:

when we are opening photos, can you make it such that the photo does not open to the front of the screen. what this means is that I cant open spotlight when i open media (cmd space) which is a slight annoyance when i want to search something from the photo or i want to transcribe something from the photo but i have nowhere to type. maybe expand the photo within the app?

gerfrend ,

The lag on M1 macs...

The UI looks great, in fact I prefer it to Telegram Lite's UI. That said, the lag on M1 macbook makes this quite the inferior app, compared to Telegram Lite.

I have a M1 mbp running Big Sur, and a late 2013 mbp still running High Sierra. The 2013 machine runs this app with very minimal lag, no problem whatsoever - the stickers, while not instantenous, they still load within a few seconds. The app still carries on while the stickers are loading. On the 2020 M1 machine however, the app lags and even hangs everytime I open my sticker menu. The rainbow wheel starts spinning for a good 2 minute before everything loads. And this is not a 1 thing occurence. It happens everytime I want to scroll through my stickers. The developer either hasn't got to optimise the app for M1 chip yet, or simply dunno how to optimise it. Either way, this makes it the inferior app compared to Telegram Lite, even a nicer looking UI can't save it.

jxzzie ,

Video bubble hanging

App is great, the video bubble works sometimes unlike the web browser, however, the video bubble only works for a while... and it hangs a second after starting the video bubble... I can't even resolve this by uninstalling and installing, please fix this bug

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