Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. One of the top 5 most downloaded apps in the world with over 1 billion 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.
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Oct 3, 2025
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I wish I could give it 4 or 5 stars but there are a few blaring issues that have caused me quite some grief. The first and most being that in group chats, if you join the chat after everyone else, it isn't possible to see the previous messages unless a setting (which is by default, turned off) gets turned in. Only messages from that point on are shown as well. I accidentally got kicked from a group where we look back at old messages (DnD chat). There's no fix to this either. I cried for an hour.
25 people found this review helpful
Felicia Grant
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November 5, 2025
This app used to be great. It was very secure and easy to navigate. I've been using Telegram since the beginning of 2018, and I might have to leave the app soon because I'm sick of having 10+ strangers/bots message me each day trying to scam me. There should be a way where people can only message you if you add them or something because the nonstop scam/spam harassment is wildly irritating.
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Mason Cox
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October 20, 2025
it's alright. it sucks you can't nickname people but my biggest gripe with it is the notifications. after many hours of googling, I've come to the conclusion that notifications have been broken for a long time. notifications have priority levels unlikely most other apps. if notification priority is "high" or "urgent", it vibrates like normal but bypasses do-not-disturb rules. if the notification priority is set to "medium" or "low", it doesn't play at all.