Nicegram is a company product, developed and operated by Appvillis UAB, based in Vilnius, Lithuania. The app runs on top of Telegram, though Appvillis builds and maintains it on its own, separate from Telegram. Appvillis took over Nicegram back in June 2022, and by that point the company had already put in a few years, since 2018, working on apps for communication and business use. At the time, the app had close to 1.7 million people using it every month, mostly from Vietnam, Brazil, the US, Malaysia, and Nigeria. The user base has kept growing across other regions since then.
Andrei Shimanovich runs Appvillis as founder and CEO. He’s spent years in mobile apps and crypto work, and his name comes up as the founder behind a few other companies in that same space. Nicegram’s site also lists Sergey Sheleg as the one handling product and tech for the team.
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Over the years, Appvillis has added a fair bit to Nicegram beyond what it started with. Nicegram lets users manage multiple accounts from one place, use AI tools built directly into the app, and rely on a crypto wallet that comes integrated with it. Updates arrive regularly too, some minor fixes and others larger additions, and this steady pace of development has helped Nicegram remain known as one of the more established third-party Telegram clients available today. Appvillis, for its part, has stayed a small operation. Most of the team works out of Lithuania, and the company hasn’t strayed too far from messaging and communication apps; that’s still where its focus sits.
For now, Nicegram keeps running the way people are used to seeing it: same account switching, same AI features, same wallet built in, still serving the users who’ve stuck with it over the years.
