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We've compiled a list of 38 free and paid alternatives to Telegram. The primary competitors include Skype, Adobe Photoshop. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Telegram and Slack, Signal, Asana. Also you can look at other similar options here: Travel and Location Software.


Slack
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Slack is the hub for seamless collaboration, offering real-time messaging, file sharing, and integration with apps. Get work done efficiently from anywhere.

Signal
Free Open Source

Signal is a secure messaging app with end-to-end encryption, ensuring private communication for texts, calls, and media sharing. It supports group chats, encrypted stickers, and high-quality voice and video calls while prioritizing privacy as a free…

Asana
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Asana is a comprehensive project management software that enables teams to efficiently manage tasks and projects. Its features include task creation and assignment, priority setting, progress tracking, and file attachment.

Viber is a cross-platform communication application offering voice, video, and text messaging services. It supports high-quality calls, group chats, and multimedia sharing across devices. Viber ensures end-to-end encryption for secure conversations.

Trillian
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Mattermost
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Qiscus offers a professional omnichannel marketing, sales, and support platform for seamless customer engagement. As an official partner for the WhatsApp Business API, it provides integrated solutions for Omnichannel, CRM, and chatbot needs.

Telegram Platforms

iPad iPad
iPhone iPhone
Linux Linux
Mac Mac
Android Android
Web-Based Web-Based
Windows Windows

Telegram Overview

Telegram is a messaging app created by former Small VK iconVK creators with a focus on speed and security. It’s superfast, simple and free. It is like SMS, but more powerful.

You can send messages, photos and videos to people who are in your phone contacts (and have Telegram). You can also create groups for up to 20000 people or channels for unlimited subscribers.

Your chats are not encrypted by default, which enables other people to see what you are writing. You can enable a "Secret Chat" to enable end-to-end encryption.

Telegram's security model has received notable criticism by cryptography experts. They criticized the general security model of permanently storing all contacts, messages and media together with their decryption keys on its servers by default and by not enabling end-to-end encryption for messages by default.

Telegram's client-side code is open-source software, whereas its server-side code is closed-source and proprietary. The service also provides public APIs with which developers can access the same functionality as Telegram's official apps to build their own messaging applications.

Telegram also provides a bot API for programmers to create different kinds of Telegram bots. Bots are simply Telegram accounts operated by software – not people – and they'll often have AI features. They can do anything – teach, play, search, broadcast, remind, connect, integrate with other services, or even pass commands to the Internet of Things.

Telegram Features

tick-square Real Time Editing
tick-square Multi-Language
tick-square File Sharing
tick-square Drag & Drop
tick-square Audio Calls
tick-square On-Demand Communications
tick-square Content Sharing
tick-square Content Import/Export
tick-square Video Support
tick-square SSL Security
tick-square Multi-Channel Communication
tick-square Image Library
tick-square Discussions/Forums
tick-square Real-Time Chat
tick-square Batch Communications
tick-square Interaction Tracking
tick-square Secure Data Storage
tick-square Chat/Messaging
tick-square Collaboration Tools
tick-square Search/Filter
tick-square Contact Management
tick-square Alerts/Notifications
tick-square Video Conferencing
tick-square API

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