Today we are going to discuss the main differences between WhatsApp and Telegram , the two giants in terms of instant messaging applications
Today, WhatsApp is undoubtedly the most widely used application on the market, and as we have always commented, it was the first to arrive and obviously its expansion was the fastest. This is undoubtedly the main reason why it has so many users.
On the contrary Telegram , is that app that appeared much later, although with improvements that far exceed what WhatsApp offers us.
MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WHATSAPP AND TELEGRAM
It is clear that we are not going to focus on talking about one application first and then the other, since both have been in the app market for a long time and are well known.
But we are going to focus on talking about their differences, which are not as well known
As for users, we see that Telegram (more than 100 million active users) is gaining more and more in number and therefore grows and grows.
But if we compare this data with that of WhatsApp (more than 1 billion active users), we see that the instant messaging giant wins the battle and that one. Could it be because of what we have mentioned before?
In this section, WhatsApp will surely also win, although there is a somewhat big but. Telegram, as many users will already know, does not have calls in its application.But everything has an explanation, and that is that its main developer has commented that they are interested in being the best "instant messaging" application. Calls don't come through here
For its part, WhatsApp has a very complete call service and we have to say that they work really well. In addition, in future updates, they will include video calls .
For those who have used Telegram, they will know or if they don't know, they will find out now, that their groups are much larger than those of WhatsApp. We are talking about groups of up to 5,000 people, without taking into account the channels, which can be infinite.
On the other hand, WhatsApp only allows us to have groups of up to 256 people, which at first glance may seem like a lot, but compared to Telegram there is a lot of difference.
We remember that Telegram is a multiplatform app, which means that we can find it on any operating system and also totally free.We can also find it on our computers at no cost, something really useful since it allows you to forget about your mobile for a while.
On the other hand, the desktop version that WhatsApp offers us is through the browser and also having the mobile active, it can be useful, but it is obvious that its main competitor is more developed in this aspect and win the street game.
Telegram offers us somewhat more fun chats, with the possibility of sending GIFs or the famous stickers, with its own search engine, which makes it very interesting. We have the possibility of sending any type of file, with a limit of 1.5gb per file. For everything else, we can send whatever we want.
For its part, WhatsApp does not have GIFs or stickers, and we cannot send what we want either, only PDF files and text documents.
In this aspect, both applications are on par. And it is that WhatsApp has improved a lot in terms of security, thanks above all to the encryption of its chats. Therefore, let's say that neither has anything to envy the other.
And these are the main differences that we see between WhatsApp and Telegram, two great instant messaging applications. But surely some of them escape us, so if you know of one, don't hesitate to share it with us.
