Telegram Desktop fork with Material Design and other improvements, which is based on the Telegram API and the MTProto secure protocol.
The source code is published under GPLv3 with OpenSSL exception, the license is available here
- Included own Material You theme with colorizer (Day, Dark)
- Google Sans font everywhere (except for Arabic characters, they use the Vazir font)
- Material icons instead of default ones
- Ability to seek round videos (experimental)
- Ability to delete more than 100 messages at once (experimental)
- Ability to copy the sticker set author's id and increment
- Added admin menu and chat log buttons above the members list
- Copy usernames as @example if possible
- Removed message bubble tails and reverted old paddings
- Removed "large emoji" outline
- Replaced webview platform with "android"
- Replaced all sounds
- Reduced jpeg compression (94% on photos, 100% on wallpapers)
- Reduced minimum window size
- Reduced minimum brush thickness in the photo editor
- Reduced use of uppercase in the interface
- Reduced some timeouts
- Increased upload speed
- Increased max accounts limit from 3/6 to 10/20
- Improved spoiler animation
- Improved sticker pack menu. "Share stickers" button replaced with "Remove" + show the amount of stickers near "Add stickers"
- Improved chat export. 10000 messages in one html document and faster file downloads
- Hide your phone number in profile and settings (except "My account" screen)
- Show more recent stickers
- Show online counter in large groups (experimental)
- Show the approximate date of account creation (optional)
- Show data center (optional)
- If you would like to see a new feature in this list, please tell me in the chat
For Arch Linux users @omansh-krishn made a PKG repository
You can use it right away by adding this to your pacman.conf
[materialgram]
SigLevel = Never
Server = https://$repo.github.io/arch
Or you can use this script
sudo sh -c "curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/materialgram/arch/x86_64/installer.sh | bash"
- Qt 6 (LGPL) and Qt 5.15 (LGPL) slightly patched
- OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.1 (OpenSSL License)
- WebRTC (New BSD License)
- zlib 1.2.11 (zlib License)
- LZMA SDK 9.20 (public domain)
- liblzma (public domain)
- Google Breakpad (License)
- Google Crashpad (Apache License 2.0)
- GYP (BSD License)
- Ninja (Apache License 2.0)
- OpenAL Soft (LGPL)
- Opus codec (BSD License)
- FFmpeg (LGPL)
- Guideline Support Library (MIT License)
- Range-v3 (Boost License)
- Vazir font (SIL Open Font License 1.1)
- Emoji alpha codes (MIT License)
- Catch test framework (Boost License)
- xxHash (BSD License)
- QR Code generator (MIT License)
- CMake (New BSD License)
- Hunspell (LGPL)
- Ada (Apache License 2.0)