Telegram

In-app purchases
4.3
13.6M reviews
1B+
Downloads
Content rating
Mature 17+
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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.
Updated on
Mar 4, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 5 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
13.3M reviews
Noah Overholt (Sonriah Thaise)
March 12, 2024
They added a feature called stories. No one wanted this. It has a notification that takes forever to get to play. After playing it, the notification will sit on your screen for all eternity. Can't delete it. Can't archive it. Nothing. It will sit at the top of your app forever. Otherwise the ap is, acceptable. It does what it does, but having an unclearable notification stuck on my screen is the most frustrating thing, and makes me want to ininstall
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Eve Richardson
March 12, 2024
Update 3/2024 - From bad to worse. No messages won't load until you type a message back or at least a character to get the message to appear. You can see part of the message in the preview but when you go into messages there's nothing there until you send something 1/30/22 - clipboard no longer works. Latest update forces contacts on the same screen as chats. Super inconvenient and really annoying.
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Jayden “jay_diamond___” Riley
February 21, 2024
It's a great app that I can use to talk to all sorts of people and be as organized about it as I need to be! Just one problem, every now and then there would be a glitch that would hide all my folders, so whichever folder is the main one I start with is what I would be stuck with until I restart Telegram. And also when navigating, when I'm editing a reply and I accidentally swipe a little to the left, it goes back to the main screen and I lose progress of what I was editing
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