Telegram Messenger Downloads &amp; Revenue Telegram Messenger · App Store &amp; Google Play

Monthly users

all platforms

Revenue / month

in-app, both stores

Rating

4.0 ★

18M ratings, both stores

Measured

Best rank now

App Store ·

All Apps Grossing

Measured

New ratings a week

22.3k

▲ +23% vs the 2 weeks before (Google Play)

Measured

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Telegram Messenger at a glance

AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.

A free, cloud-based instant messaging platform targeting global users who prioritize speed, cross-device synchronization, and privacy features like end-to-end encryption. The app holds the #1 position in both Free and Grossing charts across key markets including the US, France, Germany, and Russia, indicating strong user acquisition alongside significant monetization potential via Telegram Premium or channel promotions.

Similar apps: WhatsApp, Signal, Discord

Telegram Messenger downloads & installs

Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.

Store	Downloads / day	Lifetime installs
App Store	10k+ Exact	50M+ Exact
Google Play	500k+ Exact	1B+ Measured
Other Android stores	50k+ Exact	–
Total	500k+ Confidence Exact	1B+ Confidence Exact

How this is calculated

App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.

Where Telegram Messenger's downloads come from Modelled

Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.

Organic search

68%

Organic browse

17%

Paid (ads)

15%

How this is calculated

Modelled from signals we measure: ads naming the app (Google Ads Transparency), App Store features and the rank lift they caused, and how much keyword search traffic the app ranks for.

In-app revenue

Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.

Store	Per month	Share
App Store
Google Play
Total	Confidence Free with an account	100%

Business model: In-app purchase-led

How Telegram Messenger makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.

SubscriptionsIn-app purchases

Subscriptions

/mo

of revenue

Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first

1	Telegram Premium subscription
2	100 Telegram Stars
3	500 Telegram Stars
4	1x Telegram Premium (One Week) subscription
5	1000 Telegram Stars
6	250 Telegram Stars
7	750 Telegram Stars
8	2500 Telegram Stars
9	Telegram Premium Annual subscription
10	1500 Telegram Stars

Where it ranks now

Both stores, across every country we track.

Store	Best rank	Charting in	US Top Free	US Top Grossing
App Store	#1 All Apps Grossing	29 of 30 countries	#2	#4
Google Play	#1 Communication Grossing	23 of 23 countries	#2	#2

Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.

Review momentum

ⓘ How we measure this

App Store

New ratings a week

2,542

▼ -8% vs the 2 weeks before

Written reviews a week

50+

US App Store (Apple shows only the newest)

Recent ratings

1.9★

vs 3.7★ lifetime

Recent written reviews

2.4★

people who write skew negative

Review momentum

70/100

top 1% of Social Networking apps

New ratings by country (12)

Country	New ratings a week	Share	Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before
United States	719	35%	▼ -11%
Russia	350	17%	▼ -16%
Indonesia	162	8%	▼ -10%
Brazil	138	7%	steady
Vietnam	122	6%	steady
Saudi Arabia	115	6%	steady
India	114	5%	▲ +7%
United Kingdom	83	4%	steady
Philippines	82	4%	–
Turkey	69	3%	▲ +7%
Germany	64	3%	▼ -10%
Mexico	64	3%	▼ -15%

App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.

Google Play

New ratings a week

19.7k

▲ +23% vs the 2 weeks before

Written reviews a week

Google Play

Lifetime rating

3.8★

recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total

Recent written reviews

3.5★

people who write skew negative

Review momentum

83/100

top 1% of Communication apps

Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.

Ratings

Both stores. Store data, measured.

Store	Rating	Ratings
App Store	4.0 ★	285k
Google Play	4.0 ★	17M 187k written reviews
Both stores	4.0 ★ weighted by ratings	18M

What users say about Telegram Messenger

From the 200 most recent App Store reviews in the US.

Users are overwhelmingly negative due to a recent UI update that removed the 'Contacts' tab from the bottom navigation bar and introduced stability issues like app crashes when attaching files. Complaints also highlight excessive ads, security concerns regarding account bans or hacks, and performance problems such as device overheating.

Mostly negative (30% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs.

What people like

Features & content: “I like you talk to groups of people a great feature”
Ease of use: “Fast, convenient, and easy to use”
Price & subscription: “Would be 5 star but having to pay to not have everyone be able to spam you is a deal breaker”
Crashes & bugs: “Shared content send to telegram from external app not working”

Common complaints

Price & subscription: “Very bad costumer service”
Crashes & bugs: “Fix the glitching stickers”
Login & account: “Ended being banned from Telegram”
Updates: “Can’t keep up with updates”

About Telegram Messenger

Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. One of the top 5 most downloaded apps in the world with over 1 billion active users.

FAST: Telegram is the fastest messaging app on the market, connecting people via a unique, distributed network of data centers around the globe.

SYNCED: You can access your messages from all your phones, tablets and computers at once. Telegram apps are standalone, so you don’t need to keep your phone connected. Start typing on one device and finish the message from another. Never lose your data again.

UNLIMITED: You can send media and files, without any limits on their type and size. Your entire chat history will require no disk space on your device, and will be securely stored in the Telegram cloud for as long as you need it.

SECURE: We made it our mission to provide the best security combined with ease of use. Everything on Telegram, including chats, groups, media, etc. is encrypted using a combination of 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange.

100% FREE & OPEN: Telegram has a fully documented and free API for developers, open source apps and verifiable builds to prove the app you download is built from the exact same source code that is published.

POWERFUL: You can create group chats with up to 200,000 members, share large videos, documents of any type (.DOCX, .MP3, .ZIP, etc.) up to 2 GB each, and even set up bots for specific tasks. Telegram is the perfect tool for hosting online communities and coordinating teamwork.

RELIABLE: Built to deliver your messages using as little data as possible, Telegram is the most reliable messaging system ever made. It works even on the weakest mobile connections.

FUN: Telegram has powerful photo and video editing tools, animated stickers and emoji, fully customizable themes to change the appearance of your app, and an open sticker/GIF platform to cater to all your expressive needs.

SIMPLE: While providing an unprecedented array of features, we take great care to keep the interface clean. Telegram is so simple you already know how to use it.

PRIVATE: We take your privacy seriously and will never give any third parties access to your data. You can delete any message you ever sent or received for both sides, at any time and without a trace. Telegram will never use your data to show you ads.

For those interested in maximum privacy, Telegram offers Secret Chats. Secret Chat messages can be programmed to self-destruct automatically from both participating devices. This way you can send all types of disappearing content — messages, photos, videos, and even files. Secret Chats use End-to-End Encryption to ensure that a message can only be read by its intended recipient.

We keep expanding the boundaries of what you can do with a messaging app. Don’t wait years for older messengers to catch up with Telegram — join the revolution today.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/i

Telegram Messenger App Store

Telegram Messenger gets 500k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).

Telegram Messenger is #2 in Social Networking Free in United States and charting in 29 of 30 countries we track.

Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day

DeveloperTelegram FZ-LLC

CategorySocial Networking

PriceFree

Released13 Aug 2013

Rating★ 4.0 (285k)

Version13.2

Age rating12+

First seen by us 24 Sep 2026

Installs (est.)50M+ worldwide

View on the App Store ↗

Downloads / month

1M+

App Store, worldwide · 10k+ a day

Monthly users

all platforms

Revenue / month

in-app, worldwide

Instants, an Instagram app
#4

Rating

4.0 ★

285k ratings

Measured

Best rank now

Social Networking Free

Measured

New ratings a week

2,542

▼ -8% vs the 2 weeks before

Measured

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Telegram Messenger at a glance

AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.

Similar apps: WhatsApp, Signal, Discord

Where it ranks now

Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.

Country	Charts	Rank
United States	Social NetworkingFree	#2
Russia	All AppsGrossing Social NetworkingGrossing	#1
United Kingdom	Social NetworkingFree	#1
Germany	Social NetworkingGrossing	#1
United States	Social NetworkingGrossing	#4
France	Social NetworkingGrossing Social NetworkingFree	#1
United States	All AppsFree	#16
Italy	Social NetworkingGrossing	#1
Germany	Social NetworkingFree	#2
United Kingdom	Social NetworkingGrossing	#3
Saudi Arabia	Social NetworkingGrossing	#1
Indonesia	Social NetworkingGrossing	#1
India	Social NetworkingGrossing	#2
Brazil	Social NetworkingGrossing	#2
Turkey	Social NetworkingGrossing	#1
United Arab Emirates	Social NetworkingGrossing	#1
Poland	Social NetworkingGrossing	#1
United States	All AppsGrossing	#41
Canada	Social NetworkingGrossing	#3
Italy	Social NetworkingFree	#2
Spain	Social NetworkingGrossing Social NetworkingFree	#2
India	Social NetworkingFree	#3
Germany	All AppsGrossing	#17
Sweden	Social NetworkingGrossing	#1
South Korea	Social NetworkingGrossing Social NetworkingFree	#6
Australia	Social NetworkingGrossing	#4
Saudi Arabia	Social NetworkingFree	#2
Italy	All AppsGrossing	#9
Canada	Social NetworkingFree	#4
Brazil	Social NetworkingFree	#4
Mexico	Social NetworkingGrossing Social NetworkingFree	#3
Netherlands	Social NetworkingGrossing Social NetworkingFree	#2
Argentina	Social NetworkingFree	#1
United Kingdom	All AppsGrossing All AppsFree	#32
Australia	Social NetworkingFree	#5
Japan	Social NetworkingFree	#17
Indonesia	Social NetworkingFree	#3
Poland	Social NetworkingFree	#2
Turkey	Social NetworkingFree	#2
Saudi Arabia	All AppsGrossing	#10
France	All AppsGrossing All AppsFree	#25
Taiwan	Social NetworkingFree	#4
United Arab Emirates	All AppsGrossing	#9
Turkey	All AppsGrossing	#9
Russia	Social NetworkingFree	#6
United Arab Emirates	Social NetworkingFree	#3
Japan	Social NetworkingGrossing	#33
India	All AppsGrossing	#29
Sweden	Social NetworkingFree	#3
Thailand	Social NetworkingFree	#3
Malaysia	Social NetworkingGrossing Social NetworkingFree	#2
Germany	All AppsFree	#56
Mexico	All AppsFree	#21
Argentina	Social NetworkingGrossing	#3
Philippines	Social NetworkingGrossing	#3
Brazil	All AppsFree	#34
Canada	All AppsGrossing	#40
Spain	All AppsGrossing All AppsFree	#26
Colombia	Social NetworkingFree	#2
Poland	All AppsGrossing	#18
Thailand	Social NetworkingGrossing	#5
Italy	All AppsFree	#34
Vietnam	Social NetworkingGrossing	#4
Indonesia	All AppsGrossing	#29
Taiwan	Social NetworkingGrossing	#11
Mexico	All AppsGrossing	#34
Colombia	Social NetworkingGrossing	#3
Indonesia	All AppsFree	#27
Australia	All AppsFree	#50
India	All AppsFree	#51
Philippines	Social NetworkingFree	#4
South Korea	All AppsGrossing	#91
South Africa	Social NetworkingFree	#3
United Arab Emirates	All AppsFree	#20
Australia	All AppsGrossing	#63
Canada	All AppsFree	#55
Argentina	All AppsFree	#12
Netherlands	All AppsGrossing	#27
Brazil	All AppsGrossing	#75
Vietnam	Social NetworkingFree	#5
Russia	All AppsFree	#53
Poland	All AppsFree	#26
Saudi Arabia	All AppsFree	#41
South Korea	All AppsFree	#112
South Africa	Social NetworkingGrossing	#5
Turkey	All AppsFree	#31
Sweden	All AppsGrossing	#35
Philippines	All AppsFree	#24
Colombia	All AppsFree	#22
Argentina	All AppsGrossing	#37
Philippines	All AppsGrossing	#37
Vietnam	All AppsGrossing	#39
Taiwan	All AppsFree	#94
Malaysia	All AppsGrossing	#32
Vietnam	All AppsFree	#42
Thailand	All AppsFree	#59
Thailand	All AppsGrossing	#72
Colombia	All AppsGrossing	#44
Malaysia	All AppsFree	#47
Sweden	All AppsFree	#86
South Africa	All AppsFree	#60
South Africa	All AppsGrossing	#89

Apps near Telegram Messenger on the chart

Social Networking Free, around #2.

Full chart

Threads
#1

WhatsApp
#3

Facebook
#5

Life360: Family Safety & GPS
#6

Discord - Talk, Play, Hang Out
#7

Forum, a Facebook app
#8

Ratings

App Store, worldwide.

Rating

4.0 ★

285k ratings

Measured

Ratings

285k

Measured

Review momentum

ⓘ How we measure this

New ratings a week

2,542

▼ -8% vs the 2 weeks before

Written reviews a week

50+

US App Store (Apple shows only the newest)

Recent ratings

1.9★

vs 3.7★ lifetime

Recent written reviews

2.4★

people who write skew negative

Review momentum

70/100

top 1% of Social Networking apps

New ratings by country (12)

Country	New ratings a week	Share	Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before
United States	719	35%	▼ -11%
Russia	350	17%	▼ -16%
Indonesia	162	8%	▼ -10%
Brazil	138	7%	steady
Vietnam	122	6%	steady
Saudi Arabia	115	6%	steady
India	114	5%	▲ +7%
United Kingdom	83	4%	steady
Philippines	82	4%	–
Turkey	69	3%	▲ +7%
Germany	64	3%	▼ -10%
Mexico	64	3%	▼ -15%

App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.

What users say about Telegram Messenger

From the 200 most recent App Store reviews in the US.

What people like

Features & content: “I like you talk to groups of people a great feature”
Ease of use: “Fast, convenient, and easy to use”
Price & subscription: “Would be 5 star but having to pay to not have everyone be able to spam you is a deal breaker”
Crashes & bugs: “Shared content send to telegram from external app not working”

Common complaints

Price & subscription: “Very bad costumer service”
Crashes & bugs: “Fix the glitching stickers”
Login & account: “Ended being banned from Telegram”
Updates: “Can’t keep up with updates”

About Telegram Messenger

Latest updates

13.25 Nov 2026

Bug fixes, minor improvements, and more.

13.1.229 Oct 2026

Correções de bugs, pequenas melhorias e mais.

13.1.122 Oct 2026

Bug fixes, minor improvements, and more.

Store changes

What Telegram Messenger changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.

Keywords changed28 Oct 2026

New iPad screenshots24 Oct 2026

Full change history, with before and after, free with an account

Telegram Android

Telegram gets 500k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).

Telegram is #2 in Communication Grossing on Google Play in United States and charting in 23 of 23 countries we track.

Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day

DeveloperTelegram FZ-LLC

CategoryCommunication

PriceFree

Released6 Sep 2013

Installs1B+

Rating★ 4.0 (17M)

Updated6 Nov 2026

Content ratingMature 17+

View on Google Play ↗

Downloads / month

10M+

Google Play, worldwide · 500k+ a day

Monthly users

all platforms

Revenue / month

in-app, worldwide

Rating

4.0 ★

17M ratings

Measured

Best rank now

Communication Grossing

Measured

New ratings a week

19.7k

▲ +23% vs the 2 weeks before

Measured

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Telegram at a glance

AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.

Telegram is a free, cloud-based instant messaging platform designed for global users seeking fast synchronization across devices, large file sharing capabilities, and enhanced privacy features. The app currently holds the #1 position in Communication Grossing charts across multiple major European markets including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands, as well as in Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam, Mexico, and Russia.

Similar apps: WhatsApp, Signal, Discord

Telegram downloads

Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.

Downloads / day

500k+

Google Play, worldwide

Lifetime installs

1B+

Google Play

Measured

All Android stores

500k+ /day

All stores incl. App Store

500k+ /day

How this is calculated

Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.

Where Telegram's downloads come from Modelled

Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.

Organic search

68%

Organic browse

17%

Paid (ads)

15%