Nekogram

Nekogram describes itself in one line: “Nekogram is a third-party Telegram client with not many but useful modifications.” It is built from the source code of Telegram for Android, version 13.1.1 for this release, with its own settings added, and it logs in to your normal Telegram account. As Telegram’s rules for other apps require, it uses its own API ID and its own name and cat logo, without the word “Telegram”. Nekogram isn’t made by Telegram.

What it adds

From its website and the settings in this version:

• Interface: hide the bottom navigation bar, the All Chats tab or stories, use the system’s emoji, set folder icons, change sticker size, and a tablet layout.
• Translation of single messages, whole chats and articles, with a choice of engines: Google, the default, Yandex, Microsoft, DeepL, Telegram’s own and several Chinese services. Its Auto translate option, on by default, offers Telegram’s chat translation without Telegram Premium.
• Voice message transcription through Cloudflare’s Workers AI, if you enter your own Cloudflare account details.
• Details: chat and user IDs in profiles, a user’s approximate registration date, data-centre status, and a message’s raw data as JSON.
• Exporting your login session as a file or QR code, which lets you sign in elsewhere with it; keep such an export private.

What goes online

Besides Telegram’s own servers, from the code of this version:

• Firebase Analytics and Sentry, on by default. Nekogram creates a random ID and records the screens you open and the Nekogram settings you change; Sentry collects crash reports and sends them to a server under Nekogram’s domain. The note in the settings names only Sentry. Version 13.1.1 removes the extra non-crash Sentry report that 13.0.3 made when the database was used from the wrong thread. The Send bug report switch there doesn’t stop Sentry in this version’s code; Delete data stops both, from the next start, for good.
• Nekogram’s Telegram bot, about once a day while you are logged in, for updates, the list of verified chats and notices. The request includes the app version, your system language, your SIM’s mobile country code and your push-notification token.
• Third-party lookup bots. When you open a user or chat by its numeric ID and the phone doesn’t already know it, Nekogram asks two inline bots run by others, @usinfobot and @tgdb_search_bot, sending them that ID.
• Registration dates of other users. When you open a chat with someone who isn’t in your contacts and Telegram shows when they registered, Nekogram sends that user’s ID, registration month and phone country to its bot. There is no setting for this.
• The translation engine you choose, with the text you translate.

About this file

• This is Nekogram 13.1.1, from 30 October 2026, built on Telegram 13.1.1. Its release notes promise faster downloads, bug fixes and other improvements; the fixed-tag source also includes fixes for sharing multiple files and handling protected content, plus updated QR scanning and login code. It is the universal APK from Nekogram’s GitHub releases, built by Nekogram’s GitHub Actions workflow from the public source at that release, according to GitHub’s build record for this exact file. That record marks the machine as self-hosted: the workflow asks for a “blacksmith” runner, presumably from the third-party CI service Blacksmith, rather than GitHub’s own servers; the build adds private values such as the API key, so others can’t rebuild it byte for byte.
• It is signed by Riko Sakurauchi (certificate 5C:E9:32:B9…33:13); we found no fingerprint published by Nekogram to compare it with. Nekogram is also on Google Play and its own Telegram channel, but not on F-Droid: a request to add it was closed as not planned.
• The 73.9 MB file runs on ARM and x86, 32- and 64-bit, and needs Android 6.0 or later. It declares 71 permissions, as Telegram does, among them contacts, location, camera and microphone, your phone number, and installing the updates it downloads.
• Our tracker scan matches Google Firebase Analytics and Sentry, both described above.
• Nekogram is licensed under the GPL-2.0, like Telegram for Android.
• The screenshot is Nekogram’s, from its Google Play listing, and shows an older version from 2022.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).

Recent releases on the project’s GitHub. We host and check only the newest one. Full changelog.