Using WhatsApp for your message traffic has long ceased to be a matter of course.
Especially the privacy policy of parent company Meta has made many users look for alternatives. Telegram is a good alternative for many. At the time of writing, the makers claim to have about 700 million users. The team recently introduced a paid variant: Telegram Premium.
As a paying user, you get a lot of extra functions at your disposal. Normally you can upload files up to 2 GB each, but with the paid version that is doubled. In addition, uploading and downloading files is faster, although the makers do not release exact figures.
Furthermore, a received audio message can be converted to text and in general there is a higher limit for many of the existing functions. For example, you can create 20 chat folders with up to 200 chats and follow 1,000 individual channels. The app also contains many functional changes that should simplify use. You can now choose an alternate default chat folder (which is always opened when the app is launched) and both archive and mute new chats automatically.
Product: Telegram Premium (https://www.juergen-holtkamp.de/askvt/)
Price: €5.49
System requirements: Android 6.0 and above, iOS 9.0 and above
Language: Dutch, English