# telegramdesktop/tdesktop

> Official desktop client for the Telegram messenger on Windows, macOS and Linux, written in C++ using the Telegram API and MTProto protocol.

- Magnitude: 1.7 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 33,437 total · +6 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:12–23:10 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: C++ · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2014-05-02 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop · Homepage: https://desktop.telegram.org/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

## Useful for

- Build the client from source for a specific platform
- Study the MTProto protocol implementation in C++
- Fork the client for custom needs

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:12–23:10: 33431 → 33437 stars (+6). This is the change over that interval.
- About 6 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 7,532
- Issues and pull requests: 19,310
- Watchers: 915
- Average over the last week: 12 per day
- Usual pace: 14 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v7.3.4 (2026-10-29)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 6, 11, 13, 7, 11, 26, 33, 21, 21, 7, 11, 19, 17, 10, 9, 11, 11, 24, 11, 12, 13, 14, 8, 10, 9, 14, 15, 11, 15, 6

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-12 2.6, 10-13 2.3, 10-14 1.5, 10-15 2.0, 10-16 2.6, 10-17 2.4, 10-18 1.9, 10-19 2.1, 10-20 2.0, 10-21 2.0, 10-22 2.2, 10-31 1.9, 11-01 2.0, 11-02 1.9

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-02 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.