AI summary
Privacy-focused Telegram client with proprietary components removed. Features device-wide proximity sensor disable, UnifiedPush notifications with distributor management, and built-in Tor routing with dedicated settings screen. Restores location sharing via OpenStreetMap instead of Google Play Services.
Generated by AI. May contain inaccuracies.
About this app
*Warning:* Creating new accounts in the FOSS version not possible anymore, you have to create an account in the official build and then login to the FOSS. Client for the Telegram messaging platform.
Chat with friends, start group chats and share all kinds of content. All of your messages and conversations are stored in Telegram's cloud.
The messaging platform is aimed at mobile devices, but desktop and web clients exist as well.
Several proprietary parts were removed from the original Telegram client, including Google Play Services for the location services, HockeySDK for self-updates and push notifications through Google Cloud Messaging. Location sharing functionality is restored using OpenStreetMap.
Anti-Feature: Non-Free Network, since the servers run proprietary software.
The official source code of the app contains binary blobs, so this tracks a fork which builds those from source. Hence, versions might become available with a certain lag.
What's new
- Disable proximity sensor, a device-wide toggle under Settings → Mercurygram → Media, for phones whose sensor misfires: the screen stays on when the phone is near your face during calls and voice message playback. Raise-to-listen and the switch to the ear speaker stop working while it is on.
- UnifiedPush has its own screen under Settings → Mercurygram → Notifications. It lists the installed distributors, shows the registration state until the one you picked answers, and carries the gateway setting. Long-press a distributor for recent notification and decryption statistics.
- Tor has its own screen too, reachable both from Settings → Mercurygram → Privacy and from Settings → Data and Storage → Proxy Settings, which means it can be turned on from the login screen and an account logged in over Tor.
- Improved
- Turning UnifiedPush off applies immediately instead of restarting the app, and revokes both device tokens on Telegram's side.
- While Tor is on it owns the connection: adding, selecting or removing a regular proxy is refused with a hint instead of quietly rerouting, and the proxy you had before is restored when you turn Tor off.
- Saved message history now also keeps your own messages when the other side deletes them, and a saved copy can be removed with the usual Delete.
- The per-language Do Not Translate list works without Premium, and the Translate Entire Chats switch stays listed for everyone.
- The Send larger photos (2560px) toggle is gone: upstream now offers a per-photo HD/SD choice that reaches the same resolution on its own.
- Fixed
- Saving media to Downloads no longer silently skips a file that had just finished downloading.
- Push notifications recover on their own when the distributor drops the subscription, instead of staying silent until the next cold start.
- Infrastructure
- Opus and the Lottie renderer are now built from source alongside the other native libraries, so the APK carries no upstream prebuilt binaries.
About this version
- Version
- 12.10.0.1 (7031018)
- Size
- 49.19 MB
- Requires Android
- 7.0
- Target SDK
- 24
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 17
- Updated
- Aug 24, 2026
- Package
- it.belloworld.mercurygram
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