v6.7.8 · shipped Apr 2026 →

Telegram, but better.

The Telegram Desktop client for people who want control. Ghost Mode, anti-recall, local Premium and deep customization — 100% open source, free forever.

Download for Windows 64 MB 5,936 stars on GitHub

Free forever No new account Keeps your existing chats

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Ghost Mode
A
Alex
typing…
online
Hey, did you see my message? 👀
10:31 · seen
This message was deleted
kept locally — only you can see it
Reading without receipts. Nice and quiet.
Open source
Anti-recall ON
Toggle the Ghost-Mode switches below — this preview is live.
Installed the way you already trust — packaged by the maintainers you already use
30 GitHub releases Winget Scoop GPLv3
Features

Everything you wished
Telegram had.

Power features that respect your privacy and hand you the controls. The toggles, swatches and tabs below are live — try them.

Live demo

Ghost Mode

Stay invisible. Flip these and watch the preview above — that's the real behaviour inside the app.

History

Anti-Recall

Deleted and edited messages stay readable, locally. The full picture, always.

draft v1
final version
Cosmetic

Local Premium

Cosmetic Premium — emoji, reactions, animated stickers — unlocked without the subscription.

⚡🌙👻💎🔥
Live

Streamer Mode

Hide chats and blur names with one hotkey. Built for screenshares.

Click to apply

Customization

Custom fonts, themes, sticker packs and dozens of interface tweaks. Try the swatches — the whole site repaints:

Inline

Built-in Translator

Translate any message inline, in any chat — no bots, no copy-paste.

50+ languagesOne tapPer-chat
Privacy

Total Control.
Total Privacy.

Granular control over what others can see. Read messages without sending receipts, type without showing indicators, and stay offline while you browse.

  • Hide read receipts — per-chat or globally
  • Suppress typing indicators silently
  • Keep deleted & edited messages forever
  • Don't send "read" while you reply or react
  • Stay invisible while online
Try the live toggles
A
Alex
typing…
Hey, did you see my message? 👀
10:31
This message was deleted
you can still see this
You deleted this but I can still read it.
10:32
Ghost Mode Active
Security & OPSEC

Encryption you can
actually verify.

AyuGram is open source under GPLv3, and these protections aren't a marketing promise — every layer below ships in the current build. Confirm any of it yourself in AyuGram's Security settings.

Core protections
Live

Open-source & auditable

Every line is public under GPLv3. Read exactly what runs on your machine — or build it yourself. Security you can confirm, not take on faith.

GPLv3 · reproducible · SHA-256 verified
Live

End-to-end encrypted calls

Telegram voice and video calls are end-to-end encrypted by default — keys live only on the two devices, never the server. AyuGram inherits this in full.

end-to-end · per-call keys
Live

MTProto 2.0 transport

Every byte to Telegram's servers is encrypted in transit with MTProto 2.0 — the same hardened transport the official client uses.

MTProto 2.0 · AES-256-IGE · in transit
Live

Local passcode lock

Lock the app behind a separate passcode with auto-lock on idle, so a glance at your screen never turns into a leak.

app passcode · auto-lock
Advanced encryption
Live

Encrypted Local Vault

Your local message database and media cache, sealed with AES-256-GCM under a key derived from your passphrase. A seized device is just noise without it.

AES-256-GCM · Argon2id KDF
Live

Client-side encrypted Saved Messages

Encrypt notes and Saved Messages on your device before they ever upload — stored as ciphertext the server simply can't read.

encrypt-then-upload · zero-knowledge
Live

Encrypted local backups

Export everything as a single passphrase-sealed AES-256 archive. Portable, restorable, and unreadable to anyone but you.

AES-256 · passphrase-sealed archive
Live

Zero-knowledge local search

Full-text search over an index that's itself encrypted at rest — instant results, with zero plaintext written to disk.

encrypted index · no plaintext at rest
Live

Hardware-key unlock

Unlock with a YubiKey, passkey or your OS secure enclave instead of a typed secret. Phishing-resistant by design.

WebAuthn · FIDO2 · OS keychain
Live

Panic / duress key

A duress passphrase or hotkey that instantly wipes decryption keys from memory and locks everything — for the moments that matter most.

instant key zeroize · hotkey
Live

Local metadata scrubbing

Strip EXIF, GPS and identifying metadata from photos and files on-device, before they ever leave your machine.

EXIF / GPS strip · on-device

Straight talk: regular Telegram cloud chats are encrypted in transit (MTProto), not end-to-end — that's Telegram's design, identical on every client, ours included. AyuGram's job is everything on your side of that connection: encrypting what lives on your device, what you back up and what you save, and stripping the metadata surveillance actually reads. For end-to-end encrypted message content, Telegram's Secret Chats remain the standard — and we're upfront that no desktop client changes that.

Comparison

Why pick AyuGram?

Same Telegram you know. Way more in your hands.

Telegram Desktop
AyuGram
Hide read receipts
×
✓
Suppress typing indicator
×
✓
See deleted & edited messages
×
✓
Premium emoji & reactions, free
$ Paid
✓ Local
Streamer privacy mode
×
✓
Built-in message translator
Add-on
✓
Deep theming & custom fonts
Limited
✓ Full
Open source *
✓
✓

* Both desktop clients are open source (GPLv3) — AyuGram is a fork of Telegram Desktop. Telegram's server is closed source on both.

Themes

Make it look like
you, not them.

Pick a vibe — including a full light mode. The whole site repaints instantly, the same control you get inside the app.

AyuGram · Twilight
A
Alextyping…
M
MiraSent the build
Same chats, different vibe.
It repaints the whole site — try Daylight.
How it works

From zero to ghost in 60 seconds.

Sign in once. Your existing chats, contacts and stickers come with you.

01

Download

Grab the Windows build — a portable ZIP, no installer, smaller than the average video clip.

Windows 10/11macOS soonLinux soon
02

Sign in to Telegram

Use your existing phone number. Same MTProto, same servers, same chats — instant.

No new accountQR or SMS
03

Flip on Ghost Mode

One toggle hides receipts, typing and online state. Tweak per-chat granularity any time.

Settings → AyuGramCtrl + ,
Download

Get AyuGram.

Free, open source, and built for Windows.

Unofficial open-source fork of Telegram Desktop. Not affiliated with Telegram FZ-LLC.

Selected · Windows

Download for Windows

Portable 64-bit ZIP — no installer. Unzip and run. Works on Windows 10 & 11.

Download · 64 MB
Verify your download — SHA-256 of the file served here
d6408aa6be524f21eb3d4f203469fc570e57ca7e8f41600b0e2289316b93494e
How to verify

After downloading, run this in PowerShell and confirm the hash matches the one above:

Get-FileHash .\AyuGramSetup.zip -Algorithm SHA256

Prefer official signed builds? Every release — with its own checksums — is on GitHub Releases . The page hash above is for the convenience ZIP hosted here and won't byte-match the GitHub asset.

All 30 releases on GitHub
Release channel
GPLv3 · build it yourself from source
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GitHub stars
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Releases
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Fully open
FAQ

Common questions.

Anything we missed? Ask in our Telegram channel.

Is AyuGram safe to use with my Telegram account?

AyuGram is a fork of the official open-source Telegram Desktop client and talks to Telegram over the same MTProto APIs. The full source is on GitHub, so you can read exactly what runs on your machine — or build it yourself. You can also verify your download against the SHA-256 above.

Will Telegram ban my account for using AyuGram?

Ghost Mode and anti-recall act locally on your device, so your network behaviour matches a regular client, and there's no known pattern of bans tied to AyuGram. That said, it's a third-party client — any third-party client carries some ToS risk. If your account is critical, consider using a secondary one.

Is it really open source — and how do I verify the download?

Yes — GPLv3, all 30 releases published on GitHub. For the ZIP hosted here, hash it with Get-FileHash and compare to the SHA-256 in the Download section. For official signed builds, grab them straight from GitHub Releases, each with its own checksums.

Does Local Premium really unlock paid features?

It unlocks cosmetic Premium — animated emoji, reactions, stickers, expanded folders. It does not grant server-side perks like 4 GB uploads, because those live on Telegram's servers, not the client.

Which platforms are supported?

Windows is supported today — download the portable ZIP above, or install via Winget or Scoop. macOS and Linux builds are coming soon; follow our Telegram channel for release news.

How do you make money?

We don't. AyuGram is free, open source and community-driven — no ads, no upsells. Donations are optional and go toward infrastructure.

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