
ncTelegram - A ncurses Telegram client developed in Python with the urwid library. Telegram messenger CLI - A command-line interface for Telegram which uses the readline interface. Telepathy - The libpurple telepathy backend, in conjunction with telegram-tdlib-purple-git AUR allows access to Telegram. Telepathy - The Morse backend provides capability of connecting the default messenger to Telegram. Needs TD_API_ID and TD_API_HASH env vars to be set for makepkg. Pidgin - libpurple Telegram plugin implemented using official tdlib client library. Some multi-purpose chat clients provide a plugin for Telegram: Rambox - An alternative to Franz, no longer open source, that offers all features of its counterpart. Franz - An open-source web-based application that can be used for various instant messaging software. Two official browser-agnostic clients exist: Telegram WebK and Telegram WebZ, while the Telegram Chrome app for Chromium-based browser is also available.
|| kotatogram-desktop AUR Web-based clients
Kotatogram - Unofficial experimental Telegram Desktop fork.
Telegram Desktop - The official application built by Arch Linux.
You can use one of following methods in order to use Telegram: Use at your own risk as data is controlled by a centralised company. Note: Although the telegram client(s) are open source, the server side is proprietary and centralised, therefore having privacy issues.