Telegram Messenger
What Telegram Messenger is
Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices.
The sentence of its App Store description that best says what it is, picked by Jev. The developer's own words.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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What people say
People locked out at sign-in describe codes that never arrive, a required email step and accounts lost without warning, and these are what the makers could fix first.
Written by an LLM from the lead report's counts.Read the reportBefore you install Telegram Messenger
Written reviews run 1.5 stars well below the store score.
Store ratings count every star tap; written reviews come from people with something to say, so they usually run lower. Read the shares below as what reviewers raise, not the chance it happens to you.
Of the people who wrote a review
Watch out for
- Crashes and bugs20%
“The latest update made the app unusable—it closes as soon as it's opened.”
- Login and account17%
- Pricing and feesrising14%
- Locked out of their account4%
Share of written reviews that raise each one.
Who it suits
- Friends43 reviewers; most raised: crashes and bugsComplain60%Praise48%
- School or study24 reviewers; most raised: crashes and bugsComplain66%Praise47%
- Communities17 reviewers; most raised: bans and moderationComplain71%Praise36%
What Telegram Messenger reviewers say
One public report on Telegram Messenger reads 2,243 App Store and Google Play reviews from Dec 1, 2025 to Oct 14, 2026. The report “Telegram's 2026 redesign and AI summaries: what users complain about” was last updated Oct 14, 2026. Of its 2,243 judged reviewers, 77% complain, 23% praise something, 7% make a request and 2% say they're quitting. The top complaint is login and account at 21% of complaints, then crashes and bugs (23%) and pricing and fees (17%). Top praise: works reliably, at 14% of praise. Top requests: new feature or option (45%) and bring something back (34%). Two audience differences stand out. Developer replied: mention bad update or redesign less often than everyone (1% vs 6%). Developer replied: mention missing feature less often than everyone (1% vs 6%).
One public report on Telegram Messenger. Each title is written by the person who shared it; the line under it says how the reviews were picked.
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