hey this is paul from wondershare mobile trans and i want to talk to you today about two apps that
you must have heard of so one of them is telegram and the other is whatsapp and these are two of
the biggest cross-platform messaging apps on the planet that you can use on both android and iphone
and a lot of people ask what are the differences between the two so today's video is to show you
the difference between telegram and whatsapp you might have heard of the app telegram over the
past 12 months or so because it became really big news when whatsapp became really big news because
whatsapp was in the news for breaching people's privacy and people were a little bit concerned and
people then started looking for an alternative to whatsapp and that is where telegram popped up so
you might be asking yourselves now what is best for you telegram or whatsapp
well a little bit about telegram telegram may have only popped up this year but it's actually been
around since 2013. and it was two russian brothers who actually worked for a social media company
themselves that actually set up telegram telegram at heart as well is a pretty simple app which just
gives you various features such as making chats a little bit more lively adding stickers and then
adding different emojis to your chats you can also do things like secret chats on telegram
where your chats can just disappear and telegram is being downloaded by over 200 million users
and a really big selling point of telegram over the past 12 months or so has been their privacy
and security where they want to try and keep the users as safe as they possibly can and because of
the problems with whatsapp that is why it became so popular it uses encrypted channels to try and
provide as much privacy as possible and stop any hacking when you're sending those messages
whatsapp though out of the two apps is clearly the most popular and every single month there
is over two billion active users which puts it miles ahead of where telegram is it has though
in the last few years been bought by facebook and mark zuckerberg and with the cambridge analytica
data breach this made people feel a little bit uneasy about using whatsapp but besides those
worries it is still one of the most popular apps on the planet and gives easy access to features
like video calls gifs and is adding new features all the time whatsapp is one of those apps that
is just really natural to use and easy to use and gives you the option to edit things like your chat
window logs so you can do different backgrounds if that's what you want and now of course you
can use things like whatsapp web which makes it even easier to use whatsapp wherever you are
if you take a good look at these two apps side by side then you will actually see there is quite
a few differences between the two telegram has really secure and reliable end-to-end encryption
and has a technique to secure the messages with something called a self-destruct property
this means you can set a time limit on how long a message can stay on the other person's phone and
after that time limit the message just disappears like it was never there whatsapp also promises
end-to-end encryption but an investigation showed that spy malware was collecting the user's data
and people had no idea one good selling point about telegram is that you can actually use the
app on multiple devices so you can be signed in on your ipad you can be signed in on your iphone and
take all your chats with you wherever you go on any of your devices and on whatsapp unfortunately
this is one of those features that is massively missing telegram also uses bots to carry out
various activities like scheduling reminders playing music and developing to-do lists and a
good thing about telegram is that it can actually handle any file types and send it to a contact
quickly and the file size limit on telegram is up to 1.5 gigs and if you look at whatsapp it
restricts you to sending just pictures videos and some documents and that sometimes can get really
annoying if you're using whatsapp for some sort of like business reasons and if group chats are your
thing and you know a lot of people then telegram can actually allow you up to 200 000 users in
one group where if you have a look at whatsapp it only allows you up to 256 people in a group chat
one of the big reasons people were looking to move away from whatsapp is that they had real concerns
over their privacy when using the app some changes to whatsapp's privacy over the last year or so
made a lot of people using that app be a bit concerned and they wanted to try and find an
app that would actually put their privacy at the heart of what it did and the problem was
that whatsapp could actually reveal the user's phone number and also a whatsapp chat link can
be found and anyone with that link could join the conversation whether you know them or not and
if you look at telegram it does it a little bit differently where it doesn't use a phone number
to verify who you are but instead it lets you pick a username to keep your privacy and yourself
a little bit more protected so this is something that has really started to make telegram stand out
telegram also allows you to lock chats with a pin pattern or fingerprint lock and whatsapp doesn't
have any features like this yet which again has made people move over to telegram because they
feel a little bit more safe you can hide your device ip addresses as well using proxy servers
with telegram and it actually supports the use of proxy servers without any limitations and that
means it preserves the device identity from the network and ensures the privacy of users and in
telegram there's an added privacy feature which helps you control adding your number to a chat
a lot of people are now asking that question of which of these two apps is more secure and
i think a lot of people would say that telegram is more secure than whatsapp just because of
those privacy concerns over the past 12 months telegram ensures end-to-end encrypted conversation
and protects the user's data in cloud storage telegram also uses a high standard of encryption
which makes it really difficult to be intercepted by anonymous users and because of all of this it's
made people leave whatsapp looking for a safer option and when used for business reasons a
payment bot can securely help with transactions with telegram and that means you don't have to
worry and with telegram you can also log out of all of your devices with one click
if you become a bit concerned that someone knows your password or has been looking at your chats
now if you are going to switch from whatsapp to telegram a good tip here is to back up your
whatsapp chat so you always have those chats on your computer and if telegram is for you you
might want to keep hold of that what's up data on your computer because you think it's a bit safer
with you and not on cloud storage with whatsapp and that there's a piece of software called mobile
trans that can help you nice quickly and easily back up your whatsapp data without any problems
mobiletrans supports both mac and windows and lets you keep that whatsapp data on your computer if
you ever decide you want to use the app again and some of the best features with mobile trans
are that you can easily backup your whatsapp data to a pc or mac in no time and no matter what file
size your whatsapp backup is you can do that as well and it's compatible with both android and
iphone and let me show you how you can use mobile trans to backup your data you'll first need to
make sure it's downloaded to your computer so head over to the official website where you can
download it there and it should take no time at all and if you do want to download it there's a
link in the description below when inside the app you need to select the whatsapp transfer option
and then backup whatsapp messages and then just select whatsapp this is now where you need to
make sure that your device is connected to the computer securely with a good usb cable because
if it's not connected well then the process could become interrupted and you would have to start
that process all over again once connected with a usb cable mobile trends will automatically detect
the whatsapp data on your phone and all you need to do is select that start button at the bottom
and wait a few minutes for the backup to finish and remember as well that backing up
all of your data is totally free when this is completed you disconnect your phone and then
just check that the data has been backed up on your pc and this means you can access this
data whenever you need it but to restore the backup you will have to purchase mobile trans
which then enables you to transfer backup and restore whatsapp and other social apps freely
well hopefully this video now has given you a really good idea of what app is better for
you whether that be telegram or whether it be whatsapp remember as well we showed you mobile
trans just a minute ago and that will back up all of your data very easily and it is simple
to use and doesn't really require any technical skill at all it's a great piece of software that
lets you keep all of your whatsapp data on your computer ready to restore whenever you need to
in the future if you enjoy this video then why not let us know in the comments below what do you use
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