What it is
Telegram is a cloud-based messaging service. Your chats are stored on Telegram’s servers and sync across your phone and computers, so you can pick up a conversation on any device. Besides one-to-one chats it has large groups, broadcast channels, bots and file sharing. Regular chats are encrypted between you and Telegram’s servers; end-to-end encrypted “secret chats” are available on phones.
Telegram Desktop, the app here, is open source; the Telegram server is not.
Why it’s here
- Where the people are. Many communities and projects run their groups and channels on Telegram.
- Synced everywhere. Log in and your full chat history is there, without your phone needing to be online.
On CoreDesktop
CoreDesktop installs Telegram as a Flatpak from Flathub. Open it from the app grid and log in with your phone number or a QR code. The sandboxed AI agents can’t read Telegram’s data. update keeps it current along with your other Flatpaks.