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Company
TelegramMessenger
2 Apps · 1 Tool
Telegram is a cloud-based messaging platform founded in 2013 by brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov, who had previously co-founded VKontakte (VK), Russia's dominant social network, before leaving the country following a government-pressured ownership dispute. Nikolai designed Telegram's MTProto encryption protocol; the platform's open API and open-source clients set it apart from proprietary alternatives, and it now serves over one billion monthly active users worldwide, with headquarters in Dubai.
Apps
Telegram Desktop(github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop)
Official open-source desktop client for Telegram messaging on Windows, macOS, and Linux, built on MTProto.
Telegram iOS(github.com/telegrammessenger/telegram-ios)
Open source code for Telegram's official iOS client, letting developers build or modify their own Telegram apps.