tg

tmux https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki glances https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ rtv https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv rainbowstream https://github.com/orakaro/rainbowstream discurses https://github.com/topisani/Discurses telegram-cli https://github.com/vysheng/tg

The secret chats are almost useless. Even setting aside the impossibility of syncing between devices the support is severely lacking: Telegram web? No[1], telegram desktop? Nope[2], telegram-cli? Yes, but the client is completely broken and abandoned[3]. The telegram desktop main developer said[4]: "Well, I'm afraid there isn't. They are just not in high priority, many other important things first." It seems stickers, funny bots and GIFs have more priority over security. I think this tells a lot. [1]: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/871 [2]: https://github.com/zhukov/webogram/issues/126 [3]: https://github.com/vysheng/tg/issues/1189 [4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/2z24ly/how_to_sta...

I'd also recommend Telegram. Whether or not secret (end-to-end encrypted) chats are implemented is up to the client's author. Not having secret chats in Telegram Desktop was a decision of the author - https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/5 They work in cutegram (qt based client. OS X, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, Arch AUR, etc) - http://aseman.co/en/products/cutegram/ They work in the pidgin plugin (which works on all of the platforms supported by Pidgin) - https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple#readme They also work in telegram CLI (which many bots are based on) - https://github.com/vysheng/tg

Speaking of third party clients... Does anybody know a good way to export/backup all of your Telegram conversations? I see there's a history command in https://github.com/vysheng/tg, but it doesn't look like it will do what I want. Ie. dump each separate each conversation.

There is one, it's the CLI (Command-line Interface : https://github.com/vysheng/tg)