AI summary
FOSS Telegram client with proprietary components removed, including Google Play Services and Google Cloud Messaging push notifications. Restores location sharing via OpenStreetMap. New per-account settings include pre-selecting delete-for-everyone, limiting search to own chats, and hiding stories.
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
- Added new per-account options in Settings: pre-select Delete for everyone when removing messages, disable global search to limit results to your own chats and contacts, and hide stories from the chat list.
- Unlocked translation language selection and menu customization for all users, regardless of subscription status.
- Improved
- Enhanced privacy for secret chats by ensuring translations are performed entirely on-device and never sent over the network.
- The option to remove all proxies is now available whenever at least one proxy is configured.
About this version
- Version
- 12.7.3.4.4 (6750048)
- Size
- 47.84 MB
- Requires Android
- 7.0
- Target SDK
- 24
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 81
- Updated
- Jun 1, 2026
- Package
- it.belloworld.mercurygram
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