telegramdesktop/tdesktop
Telegram Desktop messaging app
About the project
Official desktop client for the Telegram messenger on Windows, macOS and Linux, written in C++ using the Telegram API and MTProto protocol.
Useful for
- Build the client from source for a specific platform
- Study the MTProto protocol implementation in C++
- Fork the client for custom needs
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 6 stars so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #10, +14 stars.
- About 7 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 32,955
- Stars in a day
- 8
- Forks
- 7,220
- Issues and pull requests
- 19,098
- Watchers
- 912
- Language
- C++
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Latest release
- v7.2.9 · September 17, 2026
- Created
- May 2, 2014
- Last push
- September 18, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 18, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #10, +14 stars
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