If you want to know the advantages of Telegram that make it the best messaging application, you have reached the article you were looking for. In this article we are going to tell you the advantages of Telegram with respect to the rest of the applications without falling into fanaticism (I neither work for Telegram nor do I get paid to write).
Multi-device and multi-platform
Since its launch, Telegram has always been an application focused on productivity and connectivity. If this app hadn't been cross-platform from the start, it probably wouldn't have gotten as far as it has.
When we get home, we most likely put our mobile on charge and forget about it. If we need to continue a conversation, we can easily do it from any other device, be it a tablet, a computer, another smartphone...
Telegram is available via the web, for iOS, Android, Linux, macOS and Windows. Previously, it was also available for BlackBerry and Windows Phone (discontinued operating systems).
In addition, we have several applications for each operating system, which allows the user to use the one they like best for aesthetics, functions, space it occupies...
Continuing the chats on another device can be done, due to one of its most important features: the chats are synchronized in the cloud and not on the device.
In this way, unlike WhatsApp, it is not necessary to have our mobile on to be able to create new conversations and/or continue the ones that we already have open.
Synchronization of chats in the cloud
WhatsApp claims that it stores our messages in the cloud. This messaging platform encrypts messages from end to end.
That is, it leaves our encrypted device and arrives at the encrypted destination device and is stored on no server (except when the destination device is powered off).
In this way, if we want to change devices, we will be forced to make a backup copy of all the conversations that we have stored on our device and restore them on the new one.
With Telegram, everything is easier. Telegram stores all messages on its servers. It stores them in encrypted form, so that no one can access that data without the decryption key, a key that is stored on other servers to which the data is stored.
By synchronizing the chats in the cloud, there is no need to make a backup of our conversations if we want to restore our device or buy a new one. The only chats it doesn't store in the cloud are secret chats.
Secret chats
Secret Telegram chats work in the same way as WhatsApp chats. When we open a secret conversation, the messages are sent to the destination device in encrypted form (like WhatsApp) and are not stored on the Telegram servers (as long as the destination device has a connection).
These chats are not synchronized with the Telegram cloud, so we cannot continue them from other devices, only from the device where we have created the conversation.
In addition, it allows us to configure the duration and availability of the messages. WhatsApp allows us to configure these chats so that the messages are automatically deleted when they have been read or when a certain time has elapsed.
The same happens with all the content we share. It also allows us to configure the chat to prevent the recipient of our messages from taking screenshots and chatting our conversations.
Send files up to 2 GB
The comfort that it offers us when working from a computer is priceless, especially for all users who spend long hours in front of a computer and, sometimes, we are forced to share files.
While it is true that WhatsApp allows us to send all kinds of files through its platform, the maximum file size cannot exceed 100 MB. However, Telegram's maximum limit for file sharing is 2000 MB (2 GB).
Thanks to this, we can send large files (videos, programs, large files...) without the need to use applications to send large files such as WeTransfer, Send AnyWhere... or cloud storage platforms.
no phone number
WhatsApp works associated with a phone number. If you don't have a valid phone number, you won't be able to use WhatsApp. This poses a privacy problem, since we can never really be sure if WhatsApp really stores our data or not.
Although Telegram can also work through a phone number, most users use the nickname they create when they sign up for the application. This nickname is our identifier on the platform.
The person who wants to find us on Telegram will need our username on the platform, if they do not have our phone number. In this way, we will avoid sharing our phone number with people we barely know.
Edit sent messages
If you make a mistake writing a message on WhatsApp, you will have to write it again. The autocorrect of mobile devices leaves much to be desired, especially when we have released a new device, since it has not given us time to add our words to the dictionary.
With Telegram, no problem. Telegram allows us to edit the messages we send as many times as we want. This is another of the advantages of Telegram that it has incorporated since its launch and that has contributed to its current success.
Delete unlimited messages
If editing messages is one of the most important advantages of Telegram, we can't stop talking about the possibility of deleting the messages we send.
Unlike WhatsApp (one hour maximum from what we send) we do not have any limit when it comes to deleting a message.
Also, by deleting the message, we don't leave any traces in the conversation, it just disappears.
Groups of up to 200.000 members
WhatsApp allows users to create groups of up to 255 members, a much lower limit than that offered by Telegram with a maximum limit of up to 200.000 members.
Thanks to this limit, in Telegram we can find a large number of user communities with the same tastes and meet new people. Thanks to the threads, mentions and hashtags, we can maintain any conversation without getting lost in groups of this size.
Unlimited user channels
Telegram channels are boards where information is posted so that a community is informed at all times. It is ideal for associations, football teams, communities of large owners...
Send video messages
Explaining how to do something with an audio recording is an odyssey if we cannot accompany it with an explanatory video. The solution to this problem is to send video messages where we can record our voice with an explanatory video.
Obviously, Telegram also allows us to send audio notes. It also includes the ability to make calls and video calls. Although this functionality, we cannot really contemplate it within the advantages of Telegram with respect to the rest of the messaging applications.