Inugram
A decluttered Telegram client maintained as a patchset, not a fork.
Inugram is a careful patchset on top of the official Telegram Android client: the annoying bits get removed, quality-of-life features get added, and every change stays auditable and individually switchable.
What it does
- Patchset architecture — stock code and custom patches stay cleanly separated
- Debloat toggles that hide upstream features you never asked for
- Dozens of quality-of-life additions and UI refinements
- Each patch can be disabled individually to get back to the stock experience
About Inugram
Most Telegram alternatives are full forks: someone rebases a private copy of the Telegram codebase, merges in a hundred features, and two years later the app cannot be updated without a rewrite. Inugram is built as the opposite — a patchset. The stock upstream checkout sits untouched, and changes live in individual patches grouped as bugfix, feature, debloat, hooks or misc.
The practical effect is that rebasing onto a new Telegram release is a matter of replaying a patch series, and every modification is a discrete, reviewable unit. It also means the author can tell you exactly what changed and why.
Out of the box you get the annoyances stripped out, a large batch of quality-of-life features, and opinionated defaults for interface and behaviour. Every one of those tweaks can be switched off, so if you miss something upstream, you can get it back.
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