10 alternatives to Telegram

drklo/telegram — Telegram for Android source (30,225 stars, GPL-2.0, database, voice, integration).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from drklo/telegram itself (licence class: strong-copyleft), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

The alternatives in detail

• pengrad/java-telegram-bot-api
  Telegram Bot API for Java
  score 5.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,958 stars · 462 components · search them
• yagop/node-telegram-bot-api
  Telegram Bot API for NodeJS
  score 8.4/10 · MIT permissive · 9,215 stars · 39 components · search them
• rubenlagus/telegrambots
  Java library to create bots using Telegram Bots API
  score 8.4/10 · MIT permissive · 5,544 stars · 677 components · search them
• go-telegram/bot
  Telegram Bot API Go framework
  score 8.5/10 · MIT permissive · 1,873 stars · 78 components · search them
• alexander-akhmetov/python-telegram
  Python client for the Telegram's tdlib
  score 8.0/10 · MIT permissive · 724 stars · 7 components · search them
• grammyjs/grammy
  The Telegram Bot Framework.
  score 8.0/10 · MIT permissive · 3,785 stars · 24 components · search them
• mymmrac/telego
  Telegram Bot API library for Go
  score 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 1,077 stars · 37 components · search them
• laravel-notification-channels/telegram
  ✈️ Telegram Notifications Channel for Laravel
  score 8.2/10 · MIT permissive · 1,117 stars · 20 components · search them
• telegram-mini-apps/tma.js
  Made from scratch TypeScript packages, examples and documentation you will surely need to start developing on Telegram Mini Apps.
  score 8.0/10 · MIT permissive · 1,208 stars · 88 components · search them
• telegram-bot-rb/telegram-bot
  Ruby gem for building Telegram Bot with optional Rails integration
  score 7.2/10 · MIT permissive · 676 stars · 34 components · search them

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