Fork Client

📱 Forkgram — an unofficial Telegram client for Android, based directly on the official Telegram Android source and enhanced with practical features, privacy controls, and additional customization.

Forkgram keeps the familiar Telegram experience while adding a collection of useful improvements that give users more control over chats, messages, media, privacy, and the interface.

✨ Key Features

💬 Enhanced Messaging • 🗑️ “Delete for everyone” enabled by default. • ↩️ Forward messages without quoting the original sender. • 📅 Show the original date of forwarded messages. • 📤 Quick sharing for media in private chats. • ✏️ Send GIFs and stickers together with their pre-written text. • 🔢 Display the full subscriber count for groups and channels. • 🔎 Quickly jump to the first message of a chat. • 📊 View unread counts when marking multiple dialogs as read. • 👤 Access profile information directly from the dialogs list. • 📸 Record video messages using the rear camera. • 🔕 Disable large emojis if preferred.

📌 Advanced Chat & Archive Controls • 📂 Open the Archive directly with a pull-down gesture. • 📍 Keep unlimited pinned chats outside the Archive, with synchronization disabled for those additional pins. • 🧹 Disable the in-app camera when it is not needed. • 🟢 Optional colored online-status indicators showing approximate recent activity.

⏱️ Extended Secret Chat Timers Forkgram expands Telegram's self-destruct timer options for Secret Chats with additional durations ranging from minutes to days, giving users more flexibility when configuring disappearing content.

🔐 Privacy Features • 🕵️ Hide the “Connecting to proxy…” status text. • 👤 Hide account names from the side drawer. • 🖼️ Hide a chat's avatar and title from the dialogs list. • 🏷️ Optionally prevent sticker information from being included in photos. • 🧩 Includes selected features originating from Telegram FOSS.

🚫 No Additional Telemetry According to the project's source repository, Forkgram does not add telemetry, analytics, crash-reporting systems, or third-party network endpoints on top of upstream Telegram for Android. Network traffic is directed only to Telegram's official servers.

▶️ Media & Playback • 🖼️ Picture-in-Picture support for YouTube's in-app player. • 🎞️ Additional media-sharing and playback conveniences.

🔄 Up-to-Date Telegram Base Forkgram regularly updates its codebase with newer Telegram Android releases. Recent releases have continued moving the client to newer official Telegram versions while preserving Forkgram's additional functionality.

🔍 Verifiable Releases Release APKs are built through GitHub Actions and published with Sigstore attestations. The project provides a method for verifying that an APK corresponds to the repository's CI build and a specific source commit.

📜 Open Source Forkgram is released under the GPL-2.0 license and its source code is publicly available.

🚀 Forkgram is designed for users who want Telegram's familiar Android experience with practical quality-of-life improvements, additional privacy controls, flexible chat management, and a lightweight set of carefully selected modifications.