tdesktop
Telegram Desktop messaging app (by telegramdesktop)
TelegramSwift
Source code of Telegram for macos on Swift 5.0 (by overtake)
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| tdesktop | TelegramSwift | |
|---|---|---|
| 169 | 30 | |
| 24,521 | 4,813 | |
| 2.2% | - | |
| 9.9 | 8.9 | |
| 4 days ago | 25 days ago | |
| C++ | Swift | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
tdesktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of tdesktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
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Telegram Remote Code Exploit
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/eaaa704fa...
so potentially could be just to send an Instant View link pointing to an app instead of a site.
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Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar
How is telegram Electron if it's https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop C++/QT?
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Telegram app is listed in audio sources but it is not running
Please report this to the Telegram GitHub.
- Is the Telegram package in RPM Fusion repositories considered safe and actively maintained for installation?
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[Q] What's the best TG client for Linux?
The Telegram Desktop app is available on Linux, and since it is open source, is commonly available in distro repositories.
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Open chats in new window
You just need to install Telegram Desktop if you want this specific thing :) Go to https://desktop.telegram.org and download it there.
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Need help saving settings. or setting a backup
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
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Telegram install on Tails
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop within the same directory as the Telegram executable, create a folder called TelegramForcePortable. This way you can save the Telegram settings across reboots in your persistent storage. no installation needed!
- What non-FOSS you can't live without?
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Official Telegram app : CPU hog
There are 2 versions, one is Telegram Desktop that you can get from their GitHub page, the other one is available on AppStore. I personally use the latter and it’s pretty much negligible in terms of battery impact.
TelegramSwift
Posts with mentions or reviews of TelegramSwift.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-25.
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Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron
Better comparison with WhatsApp instead of ancient text editor would be Telegram app [1] built with Swift and C/C++, given hypertext and rich media that is modern messaging app like Telegram, it is resembles more a subset of web browser functionality rather than text editor, so binaries for this around 235 MB in size.
[1] https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift
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[Q] What is the difference between the Telegram macOS app on the Telegram site and the Mac App Store?
I see two versions mentioned in https://macos.telegram.org/
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Is there a Telegram App that is compatible with Macbook Pro M2-Max Chipset ?
This?
- App for MacOS with secret chat and no Apple censorship
- New Telegram Web Apps (2021)
- Topics are horribly buggy
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What's going on with the Mac version repository?
Telegram's official website links to a repo from user overtake, but that hasn't been updated in six months, despite the app obviously getting many updates in that timeframe. The repo has a few pull requests—some open, some closed, but nothing closed in the last fix months.
- Airpods
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Notifications not working on iPhone and Apple Watch
Do you also have a macOS device? It might be this bug.
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OS X desktop app is eating notifications?
It's finally been confirmed as an official bug: https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/issues/847
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tdesktop and TelegramSwift you can also consider the following projects:
Telegram-Groups-Channels-Scraper-Adder-Software - Telegram Member Scraper - Telegram auto group scraper Export telegram group members, how to copy telegram group members, Telegram marketing group
Unigram - Telegram for Windows
Telegram - Telegram for Android source
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
telega.el - GNU Emacs telegram client (unofficial)
Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance
kphp - KPHP — a PHP compiler
kotatogram-desktop - Experimental Telegram Desktop fork.
Signal-iOS - A private messenger for iOS.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
Aqueduct - macOS app to view Telegram channels
tdesktop vs Telegram-Groups-Channels-Scraper-Adder-Software
TelegramSwift vs Unigram
tdesktop vs Telegram
TelegramSwift vs Telegram
tdesktop vs webview
TelegramSwift vs telega.el
tdesktop vs Yacy
TelegramSwift vs kphp
tdesktop vs kotatogram-desktop
TelegramSwift vs Signal-iOS
tdesktop vs tauri
TelegramSwift vs Aqueduct