

In addition to this, we support end-to-end encrypted voice calls.

As a result, Telegram is like SMS and email combined - and can take care of all your personal or business messaging needs. You can write to your phone contacts and find people by their usernames. With Telegram, you can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc), as well as create groups for up to 200,000 people or channels for broadcasting to unlimited audiences. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time - your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers. Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. The Telegram FAQ describes the basic architecture:

Telegram is a relatively secure, cross platform, fully-featured instant messenger. Although Telegram Desktop is functional in Whonix ™, it requires Phone Number Validation and is therefore unrecommended at this time.
