Telegram Alternatives

Telegram is described as 'Experience instant messaging with remarkable speed and robust security. Join massive group chats or channels. Enjoy free and advanced features' and is a leading instant messenger in the social & communications category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Telegram for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Windows, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Telegram alternative is Signal, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Telegram are Element, Tox, Wire and Matrix.

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Telegram alternatives are mainly Instant Messengers, but if you're looking for Group Chat Apps or Encrypted Chat Apps you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Online, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux, Windows + Free and Kindle Fire. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Telegram.
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  1. Tencent QQ icon
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    QQ is a widely used Chinese instant messaging service developed by Tencent, offering chat, voice, and video communication. It integrates social networking features like groups, forums, and customizable avatars to enhance user interaction.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Facebook
     
  2. VIPole is a Secure Instant Messenger for secure messaging, encrypted voice/video calls, group chats that provides highly secure and strongly encrypted environment for all your communications and files you exchange over internet.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  3. Valour icon
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    Valour is an open-source, privacy focused alternative to platforms like Discord or Slack, developed by a small team of volunteers. The app has been in development for over three years and is currently in it's alpha stages of testing.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Text Me! icon
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    TextMe is an easy to use messaging application that allows you to send unlimited text, voice, pics, video messages to any mobile phone number in United States, Canada, Mexico, China and more than 40 countries in the World for FREE.

    23 Text Me! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Android Wear
     
  5. Conduit is a simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix. Conduit is an alternative to Synapse and tries to be lightweight and easy to install, but it is still in development.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Docker
    • Docker Hub
     
  6. Mesh.im icon
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    Technitium Mesh is a secure, anonymous, peer-to-peer (p2p), open source instant messenger designed to provide end-to-end encryption. Primary aim of developing this instant messenger is to provide privacy which is achieved using cryptography and anonymity using Tor network.

    69 Mesh.im alternatives

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. SiskinIM icon
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    Lightweight and powerful XMPP client for iPhone and iPad, with audio and video calls and built-in privacy

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  8. exteraGram icon
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    exteraGram - the unofficial modification is based on two versions, the official sources and the unofficial FOSS-modification of Telegram.

    11 exteraGram alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. Kotatogram Desktop is an modified version of official Telegram Desktop app. Aside from having all features that official app does, it has some more features, such as:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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