Forkgram – Unofficial Telegram Messenger

Forkgram is billed as a cutting-edge Telegram fork with small Quality-of-Life enhancements.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

  • Square avatars.
  • Square tray icon.
  • Opening any links with a custom URI Scheme.
  • Checkmark “Delete for everyone” by default.
  • The fourth button in the title to “Always on top” window. (Windows only.)
  • Showing the full timestamp if the user was online more than 1 hour ago.
  • Hotkeys for the mediaview was usability improved.
  • Experimental auto-submitting of the local passcode.
  • Showing date of forwarded messages in the title.
  • Button to go to the first message.
  • Option to remove fading of audio when it’s paused/played.
  • Ability to see thumbs of the executable files as well as for other files.
  • Ability to search a selected text via the context menu.
  • Ability to show the last seen time of the user in list of the dialogs.
  • Option to enable a display of all recently used stickers.
  • Auto-replacing of “…” with “…”.
  • Ability to bind Ctrl+6-9 dialogs with Ctrl+Shift+6-9 shortcuts.
  • Ability to send files to Saved Messages without the forward header.
  • Forward messages without quoting the original sender via Share box.
  • Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Website: github.com/Forkgram/tdesktop
Support:
Developer: Forkgram
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Forkgram is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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Torin Doyle
Torin Doyle
10 months ago

Hi Steve. Forkgram is also cross-platform.