AI summary
Privacy-focused Telegram client with proprietary components removed. Features unlimited local-only Mercurygram folders, expanded pinned chats, advanced search operators, and background live location sharing without Google Play Services. Note: account creation requires the official Telegram app first; extensive permissions include call logs, contacts, and location access.
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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
- Mercurygram folders: a folder you switch to Mercurygram in its folder settings stays on this device, is never sent to Telegram as a folder, and has no folder or chat limit.
- Mercurygram folders are kept in step between your Mercurygram apps through a single file in Saved Messages.
- Typed search operators in chat search: from:, before:, after:, date: and type: combine with the rest of your search text. (part of #134)
- All chats now takes as many pinned chats as a folder does instead of five, and the extra pins stay on this device. (#92)
- Mercurygram is now on Google Play as a third channel next to GitHub and F-Droid, built from the same source with no Google libraries.
- Improved
- Add to folder and Remove from folder are available from inside a folder, so moving chats between folders no longer means going back to All chats.
- A repeating alarm re-checks the notification registration and reconnects each account, so notifications no longer stay silent for hours after the connection is dropped in the background.
- Fixed
- Push notifications are no longer lost or stalled when more than one arrives in the same session.
- A custom notification sound for a chat is no longer reset to Default by opening its Sound screen.
- A live location shared until stopped is no longer shown as expired. (#136)
- Background live location sharing works without Google Play Services and keeps running after a restart. (#136)
- Saving, sharing and opening a watched video that offers several qualities works again. (#135)
- Infrastructure
- Every bundled media library is built from source.
About this version
- Version
- 12.10.3.1 (7089018)
- Size
- 40.08 MB
- Requires Android
- 7.0
- Target SDK
- 24
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 15
- Updated
- Sep 19, 2026
- Package
- it.belloworld.mercurygram
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