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Telegram vs iMessage
March 15, 2025 | Author: Adam Levine
16★
Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It’s super-fast, simple, secure and free. Telegram seamlessly syncs across all of your devices and can be used on desktops, tablets and phones alike. You can send an unlimited amount of messages, photos, videos and files of any type (.doc, .zip, .pdf, etc.). Telegram groups have up to 200 people and you can send broadcasts to up to 100 contacts at a time. Be sure to check our website for a list of Telegram apps for all platforms.
8★
iMessage lets you send messages back and forth with anyone on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or a Mac. If you’re a texter, you’ll love Messages on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Now they all come with iMessage, a service that’s an even better kind of texting. Because it’s free for you and anyone texting over Wi-Fi using an iOS device or Mac with iMessage.
Telegram and iMessage are both messaging apps, which, in the grand cosmic scheme of things, means they allow humans to send each other amusing cat pictures, urgent “where are you?” texts and the occasional existential crisis at 3 AM. They both let you see when someone is typing, because nothing builds suspense like watching three dots dance on your screen for an eternity before the message turns out to be “lol.” They even let you chat on a computer, in case you want to dramatically type out your frustrations like a 19th-century novelist but with emojis.
Telegram, born in 2013 somewhere between Russia and the concept of digital nomadism, decided that being tied to one platform was terribly dull and made itself available everywhere—iPhones, Androids, Windows PCs, probably even a toaster if you try hard enough. It caters to those who like their conversations large, loud and possibly involving 200,000 strangers, all shouting into the same void. It stores everything in the cloud, which is fantastic unless you were planning to "accidentally" lose those embarrassing messages. Also, you don’t even need a real name—just a phone number and a mild disregard for traditional identity norms.
iMessage, however, hails from the land of Apple, where everything is smooth, exclusive and ever so slightly smug. Launched in 2011, it exists only for those within the Apple ecosystem, much like a secret club where all the members wear turtlenecks and pretend they’ve never heard of Android. It seamlessly integrates with everything Apple, from FaceTime to Apple Pay, ensuring that once you’re in, you’re unlikely to leave. And if you do try to message an outsider—someone using, say, an unholy green-bubble device—it will kindly downgrade your chat to the ancient ritual known as SMS, like a polite but firm bouncer denying you entry to the VIP section.
See also: Top 10 Business Messaging platforms
Telegram, born in 2013 somewhere between Russia and the concept of digital nomadism, decided that being tied to one platform was terribly dull and made itself available everywhere—iPhones, Androids, Windows PCs, probably even a toaster if you try hard enough. It caters to those who like their conversations large, loud and possibly involving 200,000 strangers, all shouting into the same void. It stores everything in the cloud, which is fantastic unless you were planning to "accidentally" lose those embarrassing messages. Also, you don’t even need a real name—just a phone number and a mild disregard for traditional identity norms.
iMessage, however, hails from the land of Apple, where everything is smooth, exclusive and ever so slightly smug. Launched in 2011, it exists only for those within the Apple ecosystem, much like a secret club where all the members wear turtlenecks and pretend they’ve never heard of Android. It seamlessly integrates with everything Apple, from FaceTime to Apple Pay, ensuring that once you’re in, you’re unlikely to leave. And if you do try to message an outsider—someone using, say, an unholy green-bubble device—it will kindly downgrade your chat to the ancient ritual known as SMS, like a polite but firm bouncer denying you entry to the VIP section.
See also: Top 10 Business Messaging platforms
