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Say Hello to BetterTelegram 👋

BetterTelegram is a mod for the Official Telegram Client which utilizes LibOTRv4 (the same one as XMPP), in order to bring OTR E2EE 🔐 to Telegram for not only Solo, but group chats too! 💬

BetterTelegram also adds additional features such as;

- Preventing deletion of chat/group messages 🛡
- Ghost mode to prevent sending read receipts or online/typing status to your chats/buddies 👻
- Deleting all chats in 1 single click 🗑

Start your 30-day free trial in just 2 simple clicks at https://bettertelegram.org/account & upgrade your OpSec today! 🚀

Real time demonstration video of how the OTR encryption feature in private messages works.

VirusTotal Scans :

https://bettertelegram.org/scans

Source Code :

https://github.com/bettertelegram-client/main

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Guys just a little update

Our goals for this current week 01.07.2025-08.07.2025 are

Video Ad to be ready by 03-4.07.2025

The GUI will receive an update by the end of this coming week, the update will include

1) An updater feature that will function similarly to telegram, when there is a new update available, the GUI will alert you & if you click the Update button, a new UI will appear that will perform actions related to %appdata%\BetterTelegram and %localappdata%\Programs\bt in order to initalize the new configuration & download/replace the previous version to the latest version of BetterTelegram. You will be informed about ALL actions of the updater in the console

2) There will be an Auto-login button on the login page which saves your licence key so that you dont have to insert your licence every time you open BetterTelegram

The DLL will receive the following fixes

1) Beginning to add debug/stack log generation to better diagnose & fix crashes that may occur at runtime on any of your devices

2) Removing OTR group peer discovery messages & only sending them at the time of OTR protocol initiation via the Enable OTR mode button OR upon receiving a request from others

3) Continuing research/reverse engineering work required to learn how to insert custom Badges into messages/profiles of users who use BetterTelegram instead of polluting the chat with [CT]/[OTR] pretext

If you ever have any suggestions/recommendations for us, feel free to message @callmecrispy

BUGS

1) Whenever clicking on Better Telegram channel (chat_info.cpp?)
2) Randomly while BetterTelegram is open for up to 24-48h, when I come back online, the Telegram client crashed
3) Remove OTR/CT from messages & replace them with custom Badges in the user messages/profile
4) Sometimes when BetterTelegram is first injected & the Enable OTR Mode/Enable Protect Message button is clicked -> CRASH

If you guys see any other bugs/crashes, please write about them to @callmecrispy or @ethsony or @temptempxx so that we can add it to the list above!

Currently, our TODO list is as follows:

1) add the Tdata importer + unlimited accounts feature by 03.07.2025

2) write a patch DLL that will support Telegram 5.16.0 (that is expected to be released on Desktop in the next couple days), so the patch will take us 2-5 days to add support for after its release

3) replace CT/OTR with custom badges inside message/user-profile that is only visible to users of BetterTelegram

4) Figure out & fix all potential/known bugs or crashes before continuing with additional features + add support for stack tracer/debug logging feature to allow users to provide detailed future bug/crash reports

5) Resume working on the Fedora/Debian - Linux version of BetterTelegram

Update!

Telegram v5.16.0 was released today, our team is actively working on a patch DLL to support the latest version.

At the moment, if you have already installed BetterTelegram, you can continue to use it's features without issue on that same PC. But any new PC's that try & use BetterTelegram with the latest Telegram version will automatically receive this warning (see image above), at the time of log-in.

This warning simply states that your current Telegram Version (latest) is not yet supported by BetterTelegram.

Every Telegram version introduces new functionality to the client & as such, the previous function pointers/offsets change, and we must re-compile the newly added Telegram Libraries inside our DLL & also locate the new functions to hook, which allow BetterTelegram to modify Telegram the way it does.

The reason for this, is due to this line https://github.com/bettertelegram-client/main/blob/main/main.js#L108

Everytime BetterTelegram starts, it makes sure that Telegram doesn't have folder access it's "tupdates" (update folder). This way future Telegram updates can be controlled internally by BetterTelegram only once we have successfully added support for the latest version of Telegram. This also ensures that the user will not have any unexpected crashes due to version mismatch between the supported BetterTelegram DLL & the Telegram version.

Just to give you an idea of what these special "function pointers/offsets" are. Take note of Line #198 and #219 from the picture above.

These lines are key-components for the outlying functions "rescale_icon" and "generate_icon" used to create & set the size of icons that BetterTelegram injects into Telegram's client.

For this same reason, if these specific offsets are not found or for whatever reason point to a different address in memory than the one that it is meant for, when the function parameters get passed internally & Telegram detects that they are invalid, it would cause Telegram to crash.

For this same reason, we are required to go through all these various function pointers (31 at the current moment), throughout our DLL & assure that they point to the intended addresses in memory, from within the Telegram Client.

Hence, updates can take up to a few days for us to complete.

Update

BetterTelegram v1.3.91.DLL has been tested and working with the new Telegram Release v5.16.3 (as of 8 hours ago). Feel free to continue using BetterTelegram without interruption!

A major update for BetterTelegram GUI & in-part, BetterTelegram DLL is planned for release by 19.07.2025, it will include a handful of fixes & new features!

Lastly, we would like to THANK all of you beautiful people for helping us reach 50 active licences on BetterTelegram. We will seriously consider the original members of BetterTelegram in future perks/privileges of this project. Until the unforeseen future, BetterTelegram is free to use & as such, the most motivation we get for continued development of this project is the feedback & response from all you guys! Whether its negative, constructive criticism or positive — we strongly appreciate all of you!

Update

BetterTelegram v1.3.93.DLL has been released & hot-fixed to support Telegram v5.16.4 which was released yesterday!

Additionally, we are making a lot of progress with regards to the next major upgrade of BetterTelegram which will mark DLL v1.4.x & BetterTelegram GUI v1.3.x — it is expected to be finished around the first week of August. On top of there we are adding a bunch of new functionality/plugins, bug & crash fixes, plus performance upgrades ... you guys are going to LOVE everything thats coming!

Stay tuned everybody! ❤️

Update

Hello friends, in our constant effort to bring you the highest quality solution possible. We have been working hard on this video ad for BetterTelegram since the last 26 days, and it is finally finished! You'll be seeing it around quite a lot from here on out :)

Hope you enjoy!

Update (26.08.2025)

Hello everyone! In the last 2 months we have been hard at work addressing the previous bug reports & basically doing a full codebase rewrite of BetterTelegram in order to bring you a better experience!

BetterTelegram GUI v1.3.1

- Added Manual-Update functionality & UI with progress updates to inform the user about the status of the update in real-time
- Integrated Telegram Version updating UI/UX alongside Manual-Update, in order to make sure BetterTelegram supports the latest release
- Added a "Save License" button at the login page, to avoid entering your license key every time at login

BetterTelegram DLL v1.4.27

- Added a unique indicator of OTR-protected chats, which appears as a custom text render directly into the chat window
- Added UI for user authentication of the OTR plugin such that you explicitly control which users can or cannot authenticate with you
- OTR Protocol now works differently from before without bugs which were occuring when deauthenticating or reauthenticating OTR users
- Added unique message encoding which ensures that your buddies/peers cant send false OTR protocol messages to trick the plugin, only distinct messages are allowed
- Protocol now features a new control flow & order-of-operation since all components have been refactored

As of this moment, the latest Telegram version (6.0.2) is supported & updates will follow for newer versions as theyre released!

We hope you enjoy using BetterTelegram just as much as we enjoy making it!

Update (29.08.2025)

BetterTelegram DLL v1.4.32.dll

- Fixed a bug where reactions added to an OTR encrypted message would result in the message being deleted from the Telegram Chat Window

NOTE: We have been working on the sidelines to implement a Linux & MacOS build of BetterTelegram GUI + DLL (.SO for Linux & .DYLIB for MacOS), and we have an estimated release date by the end of November!
NOTE: Additionally, we are looking into making an iOS version of BetterTelegram (based on https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS) which will be available for download as an IPA & expect to have it completed before the end of this year!

Greetings everyone,

I wanted to share with you all the BetterTelegram group chat https://news.1rj.ru/str/+acvT6WkKhFRiYzlk

If anyone has any questions or requires technical assistance, you can be sure to receive a response there within 1-12 hours!

Thank you all for your attention & stay tuned for more updates!