The gentle
Telegram client
for Android

Your account and your chats, just as in Telegram, only without channels and stories. Up to a hundred accounts in one app, almost no work in the background, and nothing between you and Telegram’s servers.

Messaging as in Telegram

Sign in with your number, and your chats are all there

Chats
Groups
Calls
Video calls
Voice
Folders
Stickers
Secret chats

Telegram for talking to people. We took out channels, stories and the needless background work, made room for all your accounts and left your conversations where they belong: between you and Telegram.

Up to a hundred accounts

Personal, work, your own business: all in one app, a second to switch.

Almost zero in the background

We found what woke the processor sixty times a second, and took it out.

Nothing in between

Messages go straight to Telegram’s servers. We run no servers for them.

Battery

Your phone rests
while you’re not typing

The app woke the processor on every frame of the screen, even in the background, even with nothing to show. We found the spot and taught it to fall asleep.

Background CPU loadone core, 30 seconds after minimizing
Before the fix · 2.9%Altegram · 0.07%
3%2%1%0% 2.9%0.07%

Measured on an Android 15 emulator: the same account, the app minimized. Before and after the fix.

Storage

You decide
how long to keep

Telegram gives the cache five fixed periods. Here it can be anything from a day to a year: photos and videos won’t eat your storage, and you won’t have to download what you need again.

Keep media

Private chats1 month
Groups14 days
Cache limit5 GB
1 day2 days3 days4 days5 days6 days7 days8 days9 days10 days11 days12 days13 days14 days21 days1 month2 months3 months4 months5 months6 months1 year

Get Altegram

Download for Android

Android 7.0 and later · Google Play