Why Telegram is better than the messenger you currently use? According to Pavel Durov, Telegram is the biggest threat to Facebook monopoly right now. They have a whole department in Facebook to analise why Telegram is so succesful. I can give them a help. Here are 48 concrete pros of Telegram, as of early February, 2021. New features are added every month!
1) Everything, even a keaboard, works faster on old devices.
2) You are able not to save every picture you receive to gallery.
3) You are able to clean all the cash right from the app or there’s an option to clean cash automatically after a chosen period.
4) You can send video messages.
5) You can speed up voice messages while listening.
6) Free stickers, uncluding animated ones.
7) You can create you own stickers.
8) You can send messages noiselessly, so that the receiver won’t get a notification while they are sleeping.
9) You can zoom in GIFs and videos while watching.
10) Main: You can send unlimited amounts of files up to 1.5 gigabytes each. So it basically means an unlimited cloud in chat with yourself.
11) You can log into a single account on multiple devices or into several accounts on a single device.
12) It supports bots. There’s so many of them that it’s a topic for another article.
13) Music without ads. You can search it from Spotify or other sources via bots.
14) You can delete any messages for both dialog pacticipants.
15) Secret chats — super safe way for celebrities to share their private photos, for political activists communications in authoritan countries or just anyone who doesn’t want the government and hachers to acess their messages.
16) You can set timer so that messages will auto-delete in secret chats.
17) You can share your telegram profile without sharing your phone number.
18) You can limit the frequency of sending messages in group chats.
19) A lot of sites are added to instant-view: you can read articles from third-party sources right in telegram without having to wait for the download.
20) You can edit the picture before sending it inside of Telegram.
21) Also you can edit any sent picture right in the chat and send it back without leaving the app.
22) Before sending a video it can be cut in Telegram.
23) If you send a time mark together with a video / link to the video, the video starts playing with the time on your mark by just tapping it.
24) You can broadcast your location into the chat.
25) You can set a notification that a friend is approaching you.
26) You can easily download the whole chat with a couple of buttons in a desktop Telegram app.
27) You can add polls into a group chat or a channel.
28) You can put old chats in archive and not delete them.
29) You can sort your chats to folders. Good to separate people from bots and from channels and from your custom-created playlists/note chats.
30) You can pin 5 chats in the top of main list or an unlimited amount in each folder.
31) You can change messages text size.
32) You can make delayed messages (or reminders in a chat with yourself).
33) You can pin important messages in a chat for quick acsess, even several if needed.
34) A window to type a message is wider than in other apps, so you see a bigger amount of text you’ve just wrote.
35) Bubbles with messages are wider than in other apps and they fit a much bigger amount of text on a single screen, than the same text sent into another messenger.
36) It opens YouTube videos in a built-in player. I haven’t seen ads there.
37) You can delete a message of changing an avatar in a channel. Or delete a message that says you’ve added someone to the chat. Convenient when you use a chat for notes and don’t want anything to interrupt.
38) You can change style of any text in messages: highlight smth with bold font or underline or coursive or add hyperlinks to pieces of text. Or cross off words.
39) You can send APK or archive files that are banned in other messangers.
40) There’s a voice chat in any group — Discord not needed anymore.
41) You can keep an app cash on an SD card.
42) Siri is now able to read the received messages out load.
43) While adding a note to a picture and editing messages you now see how many symbols are left till the message limit.
44) You can set a video (GIF) as an avatar.
45) There are video calls. Group video calls are promised to be added later in 2021.
46) Preview of the first page of PDF files.
47) There are comments in public channels.
48) Since January you can import your WhatsApp chats to Telegram. Line and KakaoTalk are also supported.
I am not in any way connected to Telegram developers team.
So these are 48 reasons to try Telegram. Go for it now, it’s free!
