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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Aug 2, 2025
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update: 8/19/25. still not working! It's the actual telegram "stories" at the top that is frozen.(not contacts) So there is no holding in place to try to remove, so I can't use or see the top 2 chats I need..... Need to fix the stories now at top. It hides and covers all the top conversations so I can't click on them and can't remove the stories easily. please make this so you can hide it or remove the stories you don't want to see and don't want to be forced to have to watch them all.
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Telegram FZ-LLC
May 9, 2025
Stories take up no extra space in the Telegram UI – but if you'd prefer not to see stories from certain contacts, hold down on their profile picture at the top of your screen and select 'Hide Stories'.
This does not affect your chat with the user, and they won't know that you hid their stories.
Kathy Davenport
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December 28, 2024
Edit: this is still a premium only feature, and it shouldn't be! So wrong!! I get so many unwanted messages, but I can't do anything about it because of this. It's just not right! Great app for the most part, but when I got a spam message this morning, I realized you cannot set privacy of who can message you without paying for premium. This should be a free setting ALWAYS!! Forcing users to pay to protect their privacy is sketchy, at best.
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Lucien Skinner-Savallisch
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October 1, 2024
Every time I add a new contact, TG always immediately adds them to my "always allow" list to view my phone number despite me having it on NOBODY. What's the point of selecting nobody if anyone I add can immediately see my number. If I want someone to see it, I'LL BE THE ONE TO ADD THEM, it's not that complicated. Not to mention how they've bent their knee to big daddy government, shame shame shame. Course correct before it's too late.
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Telegram FZ-LLC
June 21, 2025
Sorry for the inconvenience. Can you please contact us by email qa@telegram.org to provide more details about the issue. Please include #reviews in the email topic so we could easily find your email. Thank you in advance!