Fork Client

May 22, 2026 · View on GitHub

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Fork Client is a fork of the official Telegram for Android application.
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Features:

  • Delete for everyone option enabled by default.
  • Removed pencil floating icon.
  • Original message date for forwarded messages.
  • Smaller header in the sidebar.
  • Option to disable in-app camera.
  • Option to keep unmuted unread chats right after pinned dialogs.
  • See the correct full number of subscribers in groups/channels.
  • Option to go to the first message of a chat.
  • Quick share button for every media in private chats.
  • Option to start recording video messages with the rear camera.
  • Unlimited unarchived pinned chats (turns their sync off).
  • Option to disable big emojis.
  • Forward messages without quoting the original sender.
  • Added a lot of self-destruct timer's options in secret chats.
    • Added 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 minutes.
    • Added 2, 3, 5, 8, 12, 16 hours.
    • Added 2, 3, 7 and 32 days.
  • Tap on cloud GIF with pre-written text will send GIF with this text as caption.
  • Tap on sticker with pre-written text will send both.
  • Added upload date for profile photos.
  • Added ability to see the profile info from the dialogs list via context menu.
  • Added ability to see unread count when you want to mark as read multiple dialogs.
  • Option to directly open the archive on pulldown
  • PiP mode for YouTube's in-app player
  • Added an option to show colored dots to quickly see when a person was last online
    • Yellow dot: last seen 15 minutes ago or less
    • Orange dot: last seen 30 minutes ago or less
    • Red dot: last seen 60 minutes ago or less

Privacy Features:

  • Hidden Connecting to proxy... string.
  • Accounts names hidden from the side drawer.
  • Menus to edit username/bio/name moved in the debug menu (two long tap on version section).
  • Option to hide avatar/title of a chat from the dialogs list.
  • Option to not send stickers information in photos.
  • Some features are taken from the Telegram FOSS.

Privacy:

Forkgram adds no telemetry, no analytics, no crash-reporting, and no third-party network endpoints on top of upstream Telegram for Android. All traffic goes only to Telegram's official servers.

Downloads:

You can download binaries from Releases or from my Telegram channel Forkgram.

Verifying release builds

Every APK published in Releases is built on a GitHub-hosted runner and signed with a Sigstore attestation, with the signing record stored in the public Rekor transparency log. You can use it to confirm that a given APK was produced by this repository's CI from a specific commit.

Requirements: GitHub CLI authenticated with gh auth login.

gh release download <tag> -R Forkgram/TelegramAndroid -p 'ForkClient.*.apk'
gh attestation verify ForkClient.<version>.apk --repo Forkgram/TelegramAndroid

What the attestation proves:

  • the APK bytes match the digest signed by CI (no post-build tampering);
  • it was built by .github/workflows/tandroid.yml on a GitHub-hosted runner, from the Forkgram/TelegramAndroid repository (matched by numeric ID, so renames cannot spoof it);
  • the exact commit SHA the build was made from, linkable on GitHub.

Building instructions for Debian 13:

BUILDING.md