Telegram

In-app purchases
4.1
16M 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 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.
Updated on
Aug 2, 2025

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

4.1
15.6M reviews
Kathy Davenport
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
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 [email protected] 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!
Yahor Lapayeu
August 12, 2025
It was once a very handy and the best app for chatting with people, but over time it has become useless rubbish. Developers add basic features that should be free for everyone, and here you have to pay, literally for half of the app features that should be basic. And if you don't pay, then suffer, watch adverts, put up with slow download/upload speeds in the app and a bunch of other limitations. 1 star, I don't advise anyone to download this app, better pass by and don't waste your time and nerv
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About the developer
TELEGRAM FZ-LLC
3501, 3502, 3601, 3602, Al Habtoor Business Tower, Marsa إمارة دبيّ United Arab Emirates
+971 54 202 2222

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