Telegram has just released a new version of its popular messaging app and it's called the "Telegram X". This is a completely new app built from scratch with the primary purpose of breathing new life into the messenger and to further improve ease of use. The app was officially announced on Telegram's website.

According to an official statement;

"Our mission is to make Telegram faster, slicker and easier to use with each passing month. Competition is the soul of progress, so at first we got plenty of inspiration from other messengers that spurred us on. But as years passed, we saw less and less innovation coming from competitors, who now seem content merely to adapt Telegram features to their platforms with an average lag of two years.
In this environment, we started relying on internal competition to feed our flames. This is why for the last two years we've been developing a new generation of Telegram clients in parallel with the main versions.
The Telegram X project features apps written from scratch, with an entirely new code base and without all the legacy components that our older apps have accumulated through the years"

The app is packed with some new features and some better improved ones such as the Swiping command which makes it possible to swipe between chats/calls on the main screen and swipe right on any message to bring the forwarding menu.



It also features a reworked music player as well as a well optimized profile page. The app also features a new mode which gives you the option to remove chat bubbles and use the freed up space for better placement of the text and media in the messages instead.



Telegram is one of the most popular messengers available at the moment with over 170 million users as at December of 2017. The platform has some awesome features such as self-destructing messages, the ability to edit already sent messages and option to lock chats with a password.



The Telegram X app so already available on the App Store for iOS users and will start rolling out to Android users by next week.