Chitralaya

Chitralaya CloudGallery is a simple open-source Android app that turns your Telegram account into a private photo cloud storage — no signup, no servers, no tracking.

Your photos go straight from your phone to your own Telegram chat, giving you free, practically unlimited backup space with full control over your data.

It’s not a company or a service — just a open-source tool made by a privacy-minded developer who believes your memories should stay yours.

👋 Hey there! I’m Aditya, the guy behind AKS-Labs.

Before you scroll, let me make one thing clear —

I’m just another user like you, tired of the usual “cloud storage deal” — free at first, then you pay with your money... or even worse, with your privacy.

So I built something different — Chitralaya CloudGallery.

It’s not a company, not a service. Just a simple, open-source tool — a bridge between your Android phone 📱 and your Telegram account 📡.

🤔 Why even build this? I was using Google Photos like everyone else. Free storage, nice features, AI magic… but then I realized:

Google scans my photos to “offer me memories” → which also means they read them. Google uses user data to personalize services, show relevant ads, improve products,services. We users don’t even know or read what other privacy-concerning terms we’ve agreed to at the time of sign-up. And will they only use data collected from Google Photos to improve Google Photos — or does it include all Google products? Sharing a link doesn’t mean it’s private — anyone with that link can see your photos. Needs to compress images when free storage is full. One day, “free storage is full” and they said: “Pay up for more storage.” Google, builds entire business models around data.

That’s when it hit me: my photos aren’t mine.

I wanted something unlimited, private, and mine. And then I looked at Telegram.

But wait… Why Telegram📡? Can’t Telegram see my photos? This is the elephant in the room 🐘. “Aditya, you’re asking me to upload my private photos to Telegram. Should I trust them?”

Here’s my honest take:

Telegram encrypts your data in transit, but not end-to-end (like Signal). So if they really wanted to, they could peek.

But let’s be honest — so can Google, iCloud, OneDrive, or any cloud you don’t run yourself.

The only way to have absolute control? Run your own server. But not everyone can afford or maintain that.

But here’s the thing:

Telegram gives insane free cloud storage. No limits (beyond what you can practically upload). No compression if you upload as files. And their infra is stable enough to trust for years. So it boils down to: who do you want to trust more? For me, Telegram felt like the lesser evil.

But again — it’s your choice. I’m not telling you to trust Telegram. I’m just saying: here’s another option, do with it what you like. And if you want to dive deeper, check out the FAQ section where I go through all these questions in detail.

So my thought was simple: 👉 If I’m anyway trusting a company, I’d rather trust Telegram (with unlimited space, no ads, no AI snooping) than Google(Google, which builds entire business models around data.).

Still, it’s your call. I’m not here to sell you Telegram. I’m just here to hand you the option.

🛡️ Transparency First I don’t want you to blindly trust me either. Here’s how CloudGallery works:

Your bot token & chat ID are stored securely in Android keystore (AES encryption). Your photos go directly to your Telegram account — no middle servers. I don’t track you, I don’t log you, I don’t even know who uses th

Anti-Features: NonFreeNet (this application promotes/depends a non-Free network service): ⇒ The app uses Telegram to store your images.