{"repo":"sorokin-vladimir/tele","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/sorokin-vladimir/tele","clone":"git clone https://github.com/sorokin-vladimir/tele.git","description":"Keyboard-first Telegram client for the terminal, written in Go","language":"Go","stars":136,"topics":["go","keyboard-driven","telegram","telegram-client","tui","tele","cli","cross-platform","golang","linux"],"license":"GPL-3.0","category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"tele A terminal-native Telegram client built for keyboard-driven workflows. Features • Installation • Why tele? • vs other TUI clients • Keybindings • Roadmap --- Status: Active development - already usable for daily messaging (private chats, groups, replies, reactions, forwarding, drafts). Some Telegram features are still in progress. --- Why tele? Telegram Desktop, the web client, and mobile apps are designed around mouse-first interaction. If you live in the terminal - using tools like Neovim, yazi, k9s, or tmux - switching to a GUI messenger breaks your flow. tele keeps you in the terminal. It is built for: - keyboard-driven navigation - fast chat switching - SSH / remote workflows - distraction-free messaging If tools like lazygit feel natural to you, tele will too. It also runs lean - typically 50MB RSS at idle vs several hundred MB for desktop clients. --- Feature tele Telegram Desktop Web -------------------- ----------------------- ---------------- ---------- Terminal-native ✅ ❌ ❌ Keyboard-first ✅ ⚠️ partial ⚠️ partial Works over SSH ✅ ❌ ❌ Single static binary ✅ ❌ ❌ Full media support ⚠️ photos, voice, video ✅ ✅ Voice/video calls ❌ out of scope¹ ✅ ✅ Record voice / круж. ❌ out of scope¹ ✅ ✅ ¹ Architectural constraint. tele is a terminal-native, cgo-free client with no access to a microphone or camera capture stack. Recording voice messages or round videos (кружки) - and real-time voice/video calls - fall outside that design and are not planned. You can still send an a","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/sorokin-vladimir","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/sorokin-vladimir/tele/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}