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Apps like Telegram Messenger

The apps most like Telegram Messenger are Instagram, WhatsApp Messenger and X. Here are 15 apps from other developers that compete with it for the same App Store searches and users, with their ratings and, for the biggest apps, estimated downloads and revenue.

Rating4.0 · 285K ratingsDownloads · 30D, est.4MRevenue · 30D, est.$41M

The best Telegram Messenger alternatives

  1. 1
    4.7 · 29.7M ratings
    2.9M downloads · >$100M revenuelast 30 days, est.
  2. 2
    4.7 · 18.9M ratings
    4.1M downloads · $52M revenuelast 30 days, est.
  3. 3
    4.6 · 11.2M ratings
    2.6M downloads · $74M revenuelast 30 days, est.
  4. 4
    4.6 · 22.8K ratings
  5. 5
    4.7 · 13.9M ratings
    1.8M downloads · $430K revenuelast 30 days, est.
  6. 6
    4.5 · 29M ratings
    2.7M downloads · >$100M revenuelast 30 days, est.
  7. 7
    4.7 · 49.7M ratings
    2.7M downloads · >$100M revenuelast 30 days, est.
  8. 8
    4.5 · 6.1M ratings
    2M downloads · >$100M revenuelast 30 days, est.
  9. 9
    4.7 · 18.4M ratings
    3.3M downloads · >$100M revenuelast 30 days, est.
  10. 10
    4.7 · 9.3K ratings
  11. 11
    4.7 · 2.5M ratings
    3.4M downloads · $71M revenuelast 30 days, est.
  12. 12
    4.8 · 11.9M ratings
    11M downloads · >$100M revenuelast 30 days, est.
  13. 13
    4.7 · 4M ratings
    2.7M downloads · $360K revenuelast 30 days, est.
  14. 14
    4.6 · 2.3M ratings
    5.3M downloads · $340K revenuelast 30 days, est.
  15. 15
    3.6 · 657 ratings

How we picked them

Every app here comes from a different developer and has at least 10 ratings. First come the apps that rank in the top 50 for the most of the same App Store searches as Telegram Messenger: people looking for Telegram Messenger see them next to it. The rest are from the same category (Social Networking), ranked by shared words in the name, a similar number of downloads and how widely used they are.

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Questions

What are the best alternatives to Telegram Messenger?

The apps most like Telegram Messenger are Instagram, WhatsApp Messenger and X. They come from other developers and are ranked by how many of the same App Store searches they rank for, then by category, name, size and popularity.

Which app like Telegram Messenger has the best rating?

ChatGPT has the highest App Store rating of the alternatives with at least 1,000 ratings: 4.8 stars from 11,857,165 ratings.

How much does Telegram Messenger make?

See Telegram Messenger's estimated downloads and revenue, chart history and keywords on its AppTrendKit page. The estimates come from App Store chart positions, ratings and pricing.

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