Fernschreiber

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Fernschreiber is a Telegram client for Salifish OS

Fernschreiber (German for teleprinter, teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) connects you with the Telegram network. It's still in an early development phase, but it already supports many of the most popular features such as:

  • Chat list in order of last received message
  • Two-step authentication
  • Read standard text messages, pictures, videos. animated GIFs, animated and non-animated stickers, voice notes, locations, venues, polls and documents
  • Displays web page previews
  • Send text messages, stickers, reply to messages, attachments: images, videos, documents, polls, voice notes, locations (yes, more to come ;))
  • Edit messages
  • Delete messages
  • Search chats and messages
  • Display sent/read state of messages
  • Notifications
  • Contact support and device contacts synchronization
  • Secret chats
  • Mute/unmute chats
  • Join/leave chats
  • Pinned messages
  • Forward messages
  • Chat information page
  • @-mentioning support, use @<username> in the message field to search!
  • Easy emoji selection, use :<keyword> in the new message field to search for them!
  • Open chat from external link (integration in Sailfish OS open-with menu)
  • A lot of eye candy (yes, you get the complete set of emojis for example) ;)

Have fun with Fernschreiber!

Older SFOS Releases

Devices like the original Jolla Phone from 2013 don't support the latest SFOS version. Users who can't install the latest version from this page, please try: https://openrepos.net/content/werkwolfoldschool/fernschreiber-jolla-phon...

Issues and Feature Requests

Known bugs/issues and feature requests are available at https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-fernschreiber/issues. In case you would like to report a bug or post a feature request, please do it there. Be sure to explain the bug or feature request in detail, that makes it easier to sort and prioritize.

Open Source and Contribution

Feedback about Fernschreiber is always appreciated (good, bad, improvement/feature ideas etc.). 

You can contribute with a translation, a new feature or even a bugfix. The sources are on GitHub at https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-fernschreiber. Please acknowledge the GNU GPLv3 before contributing/forking. Thanks to all new and especially to the existing contributors!

Certain elements of Fernschreiber were written together with Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, in Claude Code.

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File harbour-fernschreiber-0.1-6.armv7hl.rpm11.8 MB20/09/2020 - 22:09
File harbour-fernschreiber-0.2-1.armv7hl.rpm6.12 MB30/09/2020 - 22:53
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File harbour-fernschreiber-0.3-2.i486.rpm6.08 MB19/10/2020 - 00:09
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File harbour-fernschreiber-0.6-66.armv7hl.rpm6.48 MB05/01/2021 - 23:42
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File harbour-fernschreiber-0.6.1-3.i486.rpm6.63 MB06/01/2021 - 23:44
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File harbour-fernschreiber-0.18-42.aarch64.rpm7.8 MB22/08/2026 - 23:12
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Changelog: 

0.19

  • Update to TDLib 1.8.67
  • Send several pictures, videos or documents as one album – contribution by JimKnopfIoT
  • Admin actions in the group members list – contribution by JimKnopfIoT
  • Support for contact messages, add shared contacts to the address book – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Attach contacts from the device to a chat
  • Share the location once or live for 15 or 30 minutes
  • Show added poll options and offer to add one – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Option to forward messages without their sender and captions – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Animated and favorite stickers in the sticker picker – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Add stickers to the favorites and remove them in the sticker picker – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Only one voice note or video plays at a time – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Receive pictures, videos and files shared by other apps – contribution by Andreas Horn
  • Option to send photos and videos as file – contribution by Andreas Horn
  • Show the chat with yourself as Saved Messages – contribution by Andreas Horn
  • Show duration and success of (video) calls – contribution by Simon Schmeisser
  • Privacy settings for bio, birthdate and calls
  • Record voice notes with Opus instead of Vorbis (where the device supports it)
  • Updated rlottie library (for animated stickers)
  • Fix: reaction selection for chats without a fixed set of reactions
  • Fix: editing group member permissions for messages and media
  • Fix: required permissions when forwarding media messages
  • Fix: original author of forwarded messages from users and chats
  • Fix: show changes of the message auto-delete time
  • Fix: button of sponsored messages
  • Fix: avoid triggering copy to clipboard and delete message when opening 2nd context menu
  • Fix: show sponsor name as author of sponsored messages
  • Fix: edit or delete messages right after they have been sent
  • Fix: unread reactions stayed unread after opening the chat
  • Fix: own messages not recognized for large user IDs
  • Fix: keep privacy exceptions made in other Telegram apps
  • Fix: voice note duration, waveform and listened state – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Fix: play voice notes with one tap when they still need to be downloaded
  • Fix: mention suggestions when typing @ – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Fix: missing parts of animated stickers, show non-square stickers at full size – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Fix: keep the small profile picture visible until the big one is downloaded – contribution by Eugenio Rossi
  • Fix: load link previews that arrive after the message
  • Fix: chat jumping when photos sent from this device are loaded
  • Fix: immediate feedback when attaching a location
  • Updated Slovak translation, thanks to okruhliak

0.18

  • Update Emoji support to 17 – contribution by jgibbon
  • Support for notches - contribution by jgibbon
  • New media view for messages including album support – contribution by jgibbon
  • Additional safety dialog before deleting a chat
  • Option to remove the chat deletion menu item - contribution by JimKnopfIoT
  • Animation for order changes in chat list
  • Make reactions button configurable - contribution by monich
  • Make animation/animated GIF autoplay configurable
  • Save power by adding delay between network requests in background - contribution by mbarashkov
  • Fix Regression: Show all destinations for message forwarding – contribution by mbarashkov
  • Fix: message copy for some use cases – contribution by mbarashkov
  • Fix: message range synchronization in ChatModel – contribution by jgibbon
  • Updated translations for several languages, thanks to BotchedRPR, carlosgonz0, eson57, Lundrin and okruhliak

0.17

  • Update to TDLib 1.8.21, expect some hiccups ;)
  • Added contacts sync (OpenRepos builds only)
  • Tweaks to reaction handling (opens now on double click or click + star)
  • Option to jump to quoted message
  • Option to highlight unread conversations
  • Option to suppress notification previews
  • Option to append last message content to notifications
  • Added "unread mention" indicator to chat list
  • Improve message when search yields no results
  • New unread info for chats with high amount of unread messages
  • Setting for session inactivity timeout
  • UI improvements in landscape mode
  • Fix: Restore video functionality on SFOS 4.5
  • Fix: Chat list timestamp now updated more reliably
  • Fix: Faster reconnect after network changes
  • Fix: Some URLs couldn't be opened
  • Updated translations for several languages
  • Thanks to monich, nephros, arustg, jgibbon, carlosgonz0, okruhliak, dscheinah, pherjung and mbarashkov for your contributions

0.16

  • Support message reactions
  • Support t.me/+... links
  • Update to TDLib 1.8.3 - let's see if everything still works ;)
  • Fix: Much stricter chat list handling, should avoid ghost chats
  • Fix: Add RemovableMedia permission to allow uploads from SD card again
  • Fix: Context menu in settings/sessions should now always stay in screen area, thanks to monich

0.15

  • Use geo: URL handler to open locations (direct call to Pure Maps is no longer working on SFOS 4.4)
  • Use generic file handler to open downloaded files (xdg-open is no longer working on SFOS 4.4)
  • Fix: Race condition on initial login caused malfunction of chats and settings page
  • Fix: Bring notifications back to lock screen of SFOS 4.4

0.14

  • Adjustments to SFOS 4.4: Setup application profile, migrate configuration, fix notification sound (bug #486)
  • Support for Emoji 14.0
  • Support striked-through text - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Clean up correctly after creating voice notes (bug #481)
  • Fix: Mark sponsored messages as read correctly - thanks to monich
  • Updated translations for French, Slovak, Spanish - thanks to pherjung, okruhliak, carlosgonz0

0.13

  • Update to TDLib 1.8 - let's see if everything still works ;)
  • Fix: Forward message to channels - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Message reference issues in repplies - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Don't load message with zero IDs - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Avoid repeated sticker set loading
  • Updated translations for French, Polish, Russian, Swedish - thanks to all contributors

0.12

  • Add option to delete private chat
  • Improve chat search performance - thanks to monich
  • Improve message forwarding - thanks to monich
  • Handle external links better for individual messages
  • Full support for sponsored messages (yes, that's required before January 1, 2022)
  • Move session and logout options from about to settings page - thanks to nephros
  • Remove short texts for stickers and animated emojis - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Display chat members correctly again after TDLib update
  • Fix: Long tap on reply-to headers finally opens context menu - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Apply "show stickers as images" setting to animated emojis - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Don't save draft for chats with deleted users
  • Fix: Hide appearance settings that are not applicable - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Less memory consumption for stickers after TDLib upgrade - thanks to monich
  • Updated translations for Polish, Spanish, Swedish - thanks to atlochowski, carlosgonz0, eson57

0.11

  • Update to TDLib 1.7.9 - bring Fernschreiber back to life
  • Support for animated emoji
  • Preliminary support for sponsored messages - mandatory after January 1, 2022
  • Use larger font for settings section headers - thanks to monich
  • Hide "Extra options..." context menu item if it's not needed - thanks to monich
  • Updated translation for Spanish - thanks to carlosgonz0

0.10.1

  • Fix: Startup wasn't possible on fresh SFOS installation (thanks to Jolla Harbour QA!)
  • Fix: New open-with handling created duplicate browser shortcuts
  • Open-with support on SFOS 4.2 is (again) a workaround. SFOS 4.3 seems to behave much better...
  • Updated translations for Polish - thanks to atlochowski

0.10

  • Support for SFOS 4.3 on armv7hl and i486
  • New settings accordion - thanks to jgibbon and monich
  • Fix open-with issues with browser and Fernschreiber on SFOS 4.2 and later
  • Fix: No 'Recently used' section if there are no stickers
  • Use generic app booster, fixes some crashes related to animated stickers - thanks to monich
  • New translation to French - thanks to pherjung and nbourdais
  • Updated translations for Polish, Russian, Slovak, Swedish - thanks to all contributors

0.9

0.8.2

  • Prepare aarch64 build
  • Updated Polish translation - thanks to atlochowski

0.8.1

  • Fix: Show active sessions button only when authenticated - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Show newly registered contact as simple message
  • Updated translations for Finnish, Polish, Russian, Spanish - thanks to all contributors

0.8

  • Tap on a sticker to show overlay with the corresponding sticker set
  • Sticker set overlay allows to uninstall it
  • Redesign sticker picker, improve loading time
  • Additional context menu to prevent the normal one from becoming too big, see https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-fernschreiber/issues/216
  • Manage all Telegram sessions for current user (see About -> Active Sessions)
  • Forward message now directly available in (additional) context menu
  • Use different background colors for muted chats - thanks to monich
  • Enable storage optimizer per default
  • [SFOS 4] Disable contacts sync as no longer possible, see https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/4-0-1-45-non-jailed-contacts-sqlite-datab...
  • Fix: Found private chats no longer appear automatically in the chat list
  • Fix: Stickers can now be sent as replies
  • Fix: Message sticker highlight and click behavior now aligned with other message types - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Don't auto-scroll if context menu is opened, see https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-fernschreiber/issues/139
  • Fix: Deleted in-reply-to messages are now shown with a placeholder, see https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-fernschreiber/issues/374
  • Fix: Sort text replacements better to avoid overlaps in case of special characters, see https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-fernschreiber/issues/334
  • Fix: Trigger mark-as-read (almost) immediately after opening chat (plus configurable delay)
  • Fix: [SFOS 4] Documents app can no longer access all directories, always download before calling it
  • Fix: [SFOS 4] Forwarding a message no longer causes the page stack to become invalid (navigating back was no longer working)
  • Several translations updated - thanks to all contributors

0.7

  • Massively extended bot support - thanks to jgibbon
  • Option to change first name, last name, username
  • Add and delete profile pictures
  • Set personal privacy options
  • Pin/unpin chat
  • Option for online-only mode
  • Option to logout - thanks to santoshmanikandan
  • Option to override notification sound settings - thanks to monich
  • Option to disable delay for marking messages as read
  • Show channel members if authorized - thanks to monich
  • New UX for audios, voice notes and documents - thanks to jgibbon
  • Updated Fernschreiber logo - thanks to monich
  • Better loading/preview image - thanks to jgibbon
  • New pinned chat icon - thanks to jgibbon
  • Add explanations to quiz - thanks to jgibbon
  • Real estate optimizations for chat list - thanks to jgibbon
  • Nice landscape layout for settings page - thanks to monich
  • Full width for channel messages - thanks to jgibbon
  • Architecture changes and improvements to message type handling - thanks to jgibbon
  • Update channel message count in real time - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Get sound back for notifications
  • Fix: Chat muted icon always visible in list
  • Fix: Mark older messages as read once a reply has been sent
  • Fix: No longer display own messages as unread
  • Fix: Initial scroll position now normally on the first unread message
  • Fix: Improve sent/read indicator handling
  • Fix: Don't let context menu be wider than its combo box - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Images couldn't be clicked at the complete width - thanks to jgibbon
  • Fix: Don't retry downloading files too often - thanks to monich
  • A lot more fixes - thanks to monich and jgibbon
  • New Slovak translation - thanks to okruhliak
  • Several translations updated - thanks to all contributors

0.6.1

  • Show indicator for pinned chats
  • Use highlightBackgroundColor and align size for all chat attributes (unread messages, secret chat, pinned chat)
  • Fix: Chat list order of sequence was wrong in some circumstances
  • Fix: Make video (fullscreen) page work again
  • Fix: Add build requirements for Qt Multimedia and Qt Positioning
  • Updated translations for Finnish and Swedish - thanks to jorm1s and eson57

0.6

  • Filter chat list (tap on title bar to open search field) - thanks to the entire dev team for the great discussion and contributions to the layout :)
  • Search for public chats (see pulley menu on overview page)
  • Search for chat messages (see pulley menu on chat page)
  • Support sending voice notes
  • Support sending locations
  • Add message draft support - thanks to jgibbon
  • Basic bot messages support (reply markup) - thanks to jgibbon
  • Add 'Mark chat as read/unread' option
  • Add download option to audio messages (voice notes, music...)
  • Introduce proper text if other people added/removed a person from a chat
  • Tweaks to poll layout - thanks to monich
  • New option to keep message input focused after message was sent - thanks to jgibbon
  • Send message button now removed if Send-message-by-enter option is enabled (and no attachment is set) - thanks to santhoshmanikandan
  • Performance and code optimizations (architecture, startup, JS components) - thanks to monich and jgibbon
  • Improve readability in light ambiences
  • Upgrade to TDLib 1.7
  • Fix: Only show reply to option for messages that can be replied to - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Emoji positioning in multi-line texts - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Left-over @-mention notifications when all messages in chat are read
  • Fix: Occasional crashes on opening poll context menu - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Don't display in-reply-to section if message wasn't found
  • Several translations updated - thanks to all contributors

0.5.1

  • Add verification badge to verified chats - thanks to monich
  • Improve preview of wide images - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Editing functionality (was broken with newlines and didn't update correctly)
  • Fix: Show single message in a chat if on receiving side
  • Allow any screen orientation for picker dialogs - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Long tap on image preview items - thanks to monich and jgibbon
  • Press effect for image preview items - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Chat Page flickable misplaced under some circumstances
  • Fix: Short text for 'myself' short messages of channels in chat list
  • Several translations updated - thanks to all contributors

0.5

  • Support secret chats
  • Support Telegram contacts & synchronization with local contacts DB on request
  • Initiate private & secret chats from contact
  • Support pinned messages
  • Always position chat at last read state, even if unread message count is >50
  • Support message forwarding - thanks to jgibbon
  • Support multiple message selection - thanks to jgibbon
  • Support @-mentioning in message input field - simply type '@' followed by the name to properly mention somebody
  • Support video notes
  • Better notification handling - thanks to monich
  • Better chat permission handling - thanks to jgibbon
  • Chat information attached to chat page - thanks to jgibbon
  • Display message sent/received indicator in chat list
  • Display pinned/in-reply-to message on tap as overlay
  • Support for TDLib storage optimizer - thanks to monich
  • Switch from elide truncation mode to fade out
  • Switch to generic file picker for documents
  • Localization improvements (e.g. plural handling) - thanks to jgibbon
  • Logging/debugging improvements - thanks to monich and jgibbon
  • Several performance improvements - thanks to monich and jgibbon
  • Make emojis a little bigger and change alignment to address display issues (only a workaround as it seems to be a QML bug, but we need to use what we have...)
  • Fix: Wrong space allocation for some web page previews
  • Fix: Display correct chat photo - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Message pending indicator though message was sent successfully
  • Fix: Mute chats that have never been muted before
  • Fix: Truncate username correctly if it's very long
  • Several translations updated - thanks to all contributors

0.4.1

  • Several translations updated - thanks to all contributors

0.4

  • Support for animated stickers - thanks to monich
  • Chat information page (members, picture(s), settings...) - thanks to jgibbon
  • Support for polls - thanks to jgibbon
  • Code & performance optimizations - thanks to monich and jgibbon
  • Improve chat scroll position on open - thanks to jgibbon
  • Start chats from @-mention or name
  • Integration in Sailfish OS open with menu
  • Join and leave chats
  • Fixes and improvements to notifications - thanks to monich
  • Differentiate between simple and normal messages in chats - thanks to jgibbon
  • Switch to SVG icons - thanks to jgibbon
  • Mark all messages as read - thanks to jgibbon
  • Copy message to clipboard - thanks to chstem
  • New sticker icon - thanks to jgibbon
  • Fixes to link and HTML entity handling
  • Switch message sent date display on tap (... ago <-> Monday, ...)
  • Many translations updated - thanks to all contributors
  • Swedish translation - thanks to eson57

0.3

  • Support for sending stickers
  • Search for emojis from message input field, use :<keyword> to start searching
  • New icon/logo - thanks to iamnomeutente
  • Option to customize non-graphical notification feedback - thanks to monich
  • Add user registration - thanks to jgibbon
  • Don't show irrelevant groups - thanks to monich
  • Display information about forwarded messages
  • Option to avoid displaying stickers like images - thanks to monich
  • Fix: Don't reset edit/in-reply-to mode after focus change
  • Fix: Display caption for documents
  • Fix: Reserve some space for lazy loaded elements
  • Fix: Don't display error message in case of repeated download of the same file
  • New translations (Finnish, Italian, Russian), thanks to jorm1s, iamnomeutente, arustg and monich
  • That was quite a lot - I hope I didn't forget anything. If I did, big sorry and please let me know!

0.2

  • Support sending images, videos and documents
  • Support receiving locations and venues - thanks to jgibbon
  • Performance improvements for chat list, new sorting algorithm and much more - thanks to monich
  • Performance improvements for chat, lazy loading for most UI elements
  • Cover page improvements - thanks to jgibbon
  • Fix handling of "<>" in messages
  • Differentiate text between other people and current user ("You have..." vs. "Somebody has...")
  • Support for the Jolla Tablet
  • New translations (Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish) - thanks to dashinfantry, edp17, atlochowski, GNUuser

0.1

  • Initial Release

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averagedude228

Sun, 2026/10/04 - 00:24

Apparently this app is Vibe-coded now.. and the author didn't even bother to write about in the description. I see now there is Yast fork, which seems to be made by a human, guess I will switch to it.

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WerkWolf

Sun, 2026/10/04 - 01:05

Thanks for the hint, simply forgot to mention it. I added a note in the same way as for Lauscher. And well, it's great to have choice, so if other clients fit better for whatever reasons, simply use them, that's how open source works. :)

Regarding the AI discussion overall: IMHO, these are simply new tools to make devs' lives easier and much more efficient. For me personally, I couldn't have continued this projects for probably a long time without them. In the long run, I'm sure they will become as normal as fancy editors, IDEs, compliler toolchains etc. are today. And to be honest, they already are in the industry. Down the road, I hope, there will be competitve models and tools which are entirely open source. But given the current speed of innovation, this probably won't take long...

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averagedude228

Sun, 2026/10/04 - 01:24

I see in Yast description it says that Pull Requests weren't accepted for more than year. But that is even before IA, which should not be needed for just clicking Accept.. And I read online also articles that Claude code is "sloppy" even if checked by human and human-written code is usually better than it... Plus Claude is american which is not great for a European OS like our Sailfish

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WerkWolf

Sun, 2026/10/04 - 01:49

Well, at least I do much more than just clicking "Accept". Personal taste, the willingness to craft something solid and with high quality and the desire to understand the code which you're merging into the codebase doesn't simply go away so easy if you have more powerful tools. Since a few months, the code that is generated by frontier models is in many case of very high quality - a bit chatty sometimes, but well, who's perfect? And I'm happy to jump on a European model once they become competitive. Until then, we need to make the best of living in an imperfect world, typing this on a device whose components are proabably mainly made in China for instance.

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reounion

Fri, 2026/10/02 - 18:10

Asked a code with my phone number and no code came from. Fr +33

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WerkWolf

Fri, 2026/10/02 - 18:19

If the number hasn't been registered yet with Telegram, it probably won't work. Needs to be done with an official client first. If already registered, the code reached another client where you are registered.

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janssoni

Tue, 2026/08/25 - 11:34

Hi, for me, the updated app gives error when opening. Xperia 10 II, latest OS.
[ 0][t 4][1787646707.788277626][LogEvent.h:153][#1][!Td][&version() < static
_cast(Version::Next)] Wrong version 58

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WerkWolf

Tue, 2026/08/25 - 11:41

Weird, this should normally only occur if the database was already upgraded to a later version of TDLib. Please remove ~/.local/shrare/de.ygriega/fernschreiber and restart the app. You need to register again afterwards.

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janssoni

Tue, 2026/08/25 - 12:41

Thank you, the fix worked.

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windes

Sun, 2026/08/23 - 11:44

Cool, update finally! But can't start it - no proxy feature support :( Telegram is blocked in some countries :(

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nthn

Sun, 2026/08/23 - 00:52

Fantastic seeing a new update, thank you! I'd like to contribute some translations, would you be able to set up Hosted Weblate (https://hosted.weblate.org) to let translators contribute more easily (and without a GitHub account)?

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WerkWolf

Sun, 2026/08/23 - 23:07

Need to check that. My time is severely limited therefore I can't promise it. GitHub would still be the preferred option for now.

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kokorins

Sat, 2026/08/22 - 23:29

Amaizing app using it activelly please add possility to upload multiple images with one post

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WerkWolf

Sun, 2026/08/23 - 23:08

Oh yes, I also missed this. Let's see when I have time for this.

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HansRoulade

Thu, 2025/05/15 - 10:46

Appears to be broken since yesterday - stuck on "updating content" status. Old GitHub issue indicating TDLib incompatibility due to server-side changes. Anyone else experiencing this?

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maier

Mon, 2024/08/26 - 09:56

Great app! When reading messeges the readed one get automatic status read ecept it a pull is the last message. Them there is always left one unteadef message.
..... and I'm really missing the audio call function. A lot of Telegram users are using it. Even support is done by this function. And to be honest Yollagram has not such a good usabillity than Fernschreiber.

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NettoHikari

Mon, 2024/06/17 - 14:16

Thanks for the nice app. Works really well!

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windes

Mon, 2024/03/25 - 12:23

Thank you, for great app! Please, may be not so hard to enable swipe left-right in user's photo's in account info? Now we need to open photo, then swipe back, then swipe to next preview, tap on it, open and again swipe back etc..

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dyraig

Wed, 2024/03/13 - 18:31

Love the app, and I'm using it on a daily basis - thanks a mil for Fernschreiber!
At the moment, there is only one feature I'm missing: folders! I've only discovered them recently in the desktop client, because I've joined an organisation that uses a lot of Telegram-channels to categorise communication, and being able to sort them into folders was a real improvement. Is this maybe a feature you might consider adding at some point in the future? (I have no idea how difficult that would be - maybe it's not feasible...)

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elkiaer

Tue, 2024/01/30 - 23:01

Do not receive any code.

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mksfrank

Mon, 2023/12/11 - 04:36

Just wanted to say thank you for such a great app!

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Valorsoguerriero97

Fri, 2023/12/08 - 12:04

That's one app to showcase for nice design and nice usability on SFOS! Great work!

Unfortunately you cannot get into groups from the browser, need the android app to do that. Can be solved?

THX

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Okerampa

Thu, 2023/12/07 - 11:50

Really nice looking app, no issue to log in with my Xperia 10 III ^^

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kempertom

Fri, 2023/11/03 - 20:24

I love it. But today I sent an audio notice and the receiving person couldn't hear anything. Sending such a message to myself works great.

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WerkWolf

Sun, 2023/12/03 - 16:11

That's due to a missing codec in SFOS. Haven't had time yet to build in the missing one in Fernschreiber.

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Valorsoguerriero97

Fri, 2023/12/08 - 12:05

What codec we have to install manually? Can you add it into next version please?  :)

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jirivnk

Wed, 2023/10/11 - 04:56

Great app. Only thing i'm missing currently is the ability to view all media of a conversation in a gallery form.

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fingus

Tue, 2023/12/05 - 15:10

I second that

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fingus

Thu, 2023/04/20 - 20:00

I'm missing a Sharebutton-Plugin, in order to share a picture from a Webpage to Fernschreiber

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chris1969

Thu, 2022/10/27 - 23:43

Do you think comments will be enabled in next releases. I like this app very much but lacks of comments reading and answering, as all the others based on tdlib

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