Telegram is a multi-platform messaging service founded by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov. Telegram’s headline feature is privacy, and to ensure this it employs end-to-end encryption. It doesn’t allow advertising or data collection and sharing.
The pros of Telegram: Speed, security, large file size and simplicity.
The cons of Telegram: Can’t make video calls; Offline status functionality problem; lacks the Stories feature.
Features of Telegram
- The most important and the best feature of the Telegram app is its security.
- Chat Folders allows you to categorize your chats into different labels and Telegram sort things out for you. Telegram gets super clean and much easier to manage.
- Edit Sent Messages
- Copy a Part of Text from a Message
- Delete Sender’s Message
- Turn Off Notifications for Individual Contacts
- Stop Being Added to Random Groups
- Send Silent Messages
- Schedule Messages
- Set Reminders
- Self-destruct Medias and messages in Secret Chats
- Add Nearby People and Group. This comes really handy when you want to add someone to your Telegram without sharing your mobile number. For example, if you are going to conferences, campuses or festivals, you can find several groups related to the place and event just like that.
- Edit Photos/Videos
- Quick GIF and YouTube Search
- Add Animated Stickers to Images/Videos
- Slow Mode
- Polls and Quiz Mode
- Create Timestamp for Videos
- Send Uncompressed Media without Changing the File Extension
- View Search Results in List View
- Change Phone Numbers
- Use Multiple Telegram Accounts
- Custom Theme and Folders
- Terminate Active Sessions
- Clear Telegram Cache and Local Database
- Share Live Locations.
- Free Unlimited Online Storage
- Lock Your Conversations.
- Slow Mode
