Use your Telegram account as a drive with no storage limit, and back up your photos to it.
Telegrive keeps your files in a private channel in your own Telegram account and gives you a simple file manager for them. There is no new account to make and no Telegrive server: you sign in with Telegram, and your files stay in Telegram.
Website and downloads: daveragos.github.io/telegrive
- Keeps as much as you like, with files of any size.
- Backs up your photos in full quality. Turn it on once and new photos follow by themselves. Then free up space on your phone.
- Brings over Google Photos, with dates and albums.
- Works like a file manager: folders, stars, albums, and a trash you can undo.
- Finds things by name, by date, or by the words inside a document.
- Plays videos and music and opens PDFs without downloading them first.
- Works offline. Changes you make reach Telegram when you are back online.
- Goes easy on mobile data. Big uploads can wait for Wi-Fi.
- Stays private, with a fingerprint or face lock.
- Android: download Telegrive from
the website and open
the file. Most phones need the file ending in
arm64-v8a.apk. iPhone: follow the iPhone guide. You install Telegrive with a free helper app and your Apple Account. Telegrive isn't in Google Play or the App Store yet. - Sign in with your Telegram phone number, or scan a QR code from Telegram on another device.
- Telegrive sets up its channel for you and offers to back up your photos.
On a new phone, sign in the same way and your whole drive comes back.
- Your files are in a channel called Telegrive. You can open it in Telegram and see them there. Deleting the channel, or a message in it, deletes those files.
- Your files are as safe as your Telegram account. Turning on two-step verification in Telegram protects them better.
- Signing out only takes the drive off this phone. Your files stay in Telegram.
- Settings › Check my drive tells you if anything needs your attention.
Telegrive is free, with no ads. If it's useful to you, you can send a tip on Jami. If something doesn't work, report a problem.
How Telegrive stores your drive in Telegram, how the app works, and how to build it are in TECHNICAL.md. The design rules are in DESIGN.md.
Telegrive is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3. It is an independent project, not affiliated with Telegram.