Features · Pingogram

Chats

Your Telegram folders as tabs, with unread counts.
Each chat shows who is online, typing or verified, your draft or the last message, read ticks and unread, mention and reaction badges.
Swipe to mark a chat as read or to archive it, with Undo.
Select several chats and pin, mute, archive, mark as read or delete them at once from a floating toolbar.
The archive, which works like the chat list.
Search across your chats, contacts, public chats and channels, and messages, with filters for media and links.
A dense list like Google's own apps: about nine chats fit on a typical phone.

Opens at your first unread message and loads long histories page by page.
Material 3 Expressive bubbles: rounded, grouped, and big emoji without a bubble.
Formatted text, replies, forwards and link previews as rounded cards; tap a reply to jump to it.
Reactions on the bubble's corner, with every reaction the chat allows.
Write with formatting, send silently or at a time, and keep drafts in sync with your other devices.
Reply, edit, pin, forward, select, report, save and delete for you or for everyone.
Post as a channel you own or as an anonymous admin, where Telegram allows it.
Messages in right-to-left languages read in their own direction.

Photos, albums, videos and GIFs, with blurred previews while they load.
Animated stickers, and an emoji and sticker panel in the keyboard's place.
Voice messages: hold to record, slide to cancel or lock, with a live waveform; and music playback.
Attach photos and videos as albums, files, your location, contacts, polls and quizzes. Photos are sent without their location data.
A full-screen viewer with zoom, swipe, share and save.
Automatic download rules for mobile data, Wi-Fi and roaming, and Android's Data Saver respected.
Files you send or download keep going in the background, with Cancel.

Your profile: photo, name, username and bio.
Privacy: who sees your phone number, last seen and photos, who can call you or add you to groups, and blocked users.
Notifications for private chats, groups and channels, with exceptions per chat, synced with your account.
Appearance: system, light or dark theme, AMOLED black, dynamic color and contrast.
Data and storage: usage, clear cache and automatic download.
The app's language apart from the phone's.
About, with the open-source licenses of everything in the app.

No analytics, no ads, no telemetry: the app talks to Telegram, through TDLib, and to links you open.
Builds without Google Play services or Firebase, enforced by the build.
A passcode lock with fingerprint or face unlock, auto-lock and hidden content in recent apps.
Two-step verification: set it, change it, turn it off or recover it.
Active sessions: confirm new logins and end the ones you don't recognize.
An encrypted local database with its key in the Android Keystore, and no backups.
Location only while you share it, never in the background.

Material 3 Expressive throughout: expressive shapes, spring motion and the Expressive components.
Google Sans Flex, using its variable axes.
Dynamic color from your wallpaper on Android 12 and later, and the brand blue elsewhere.
A floating navigation bar on phones; a rail and side-by-side chat list and conversation on tablets and foldables.
Edge-to-edge, with predictive back.
Holds up at 200% font size and with TalkBack, with keyboard focus, reduced motion and high contrast.
A themed icon on Android 13 and later.

In the next release:

Builds with Google push notifications ("-gms"), next to the builds without Google services.
Forwarding from the media viewer.
File transfers as a Live Update on Android 16.
Settings beside their list on tablets, and an Android 16 look for Settings.
A slimmer composer.

After that, in this order, without dates:

Contacts, profiles, groups and channels: your contacts, user profiles and shared media; group and channel info, members, admins and invite links; creating groups and channels; forum topics and comment threads; starting secret chats; Telegram links; and sharing into a chat from other apps.
Calls: voice calls, with a full-screen call screen.
Toward 1.0: stories (viewing), translations into at least five languages, search in a chat, chat export, a home-screen widget, and F-Droid.