Telegram users share hundreds of millions of stickers every day. Many of these are custom-created on the spot using pictures of friends or local politicians. Others are made by professional artists from all over the world. Starting today, we will be showcasing popular sticker sets made exclusively for Telegram in the new Trending Stickers tab. …
Last year we introduced the most powerful photo editing tool ever to be implemented in a messaging app. This allowed you to instantly improve photos before sending them on iOS and Android. Today we’re pushing the photo editor to the next level with the fun stuff: you can now add drawings, masks, stickers and text …
Last year we launched a Bot Platform for Telegram. Free, powerful, and open, it was an instant hit among users and developers. Today we are aiming to push the boundaries further by launching a bot-powered Gaming Platform on Telegram. That’s right: you can now use bots to play games in your chats, complete with graphics …
Earlier this year we announced BotPrize, our initiative to award $25,000-$50,000 grants to the creators of the best Telegram bots. Today we selected five bots for the first batch of grants, amounting to a total of over $200,000. For our first pick of winners, we focused on bots that have already gained massive popularity in …
If you’re like us, you probably have dozens of active chats on Telegram. But none of them matter when you miss a new message from your Mom. Or Spouse. Or Mad Boss. Today we’re launching Telegram 3.15, which allows you to pin important conversations to the top of your inbox. This feature is also valuable …
Last month, we launched Telegra.ph, a minimalist publishing tool that allows you to create richly formatted posts and push them to the Web in just a click. We tried to keep Telegraph‘s interface as simple as possible: there’s no need to log in or navigate menus. You just open telegra.ph, write your post, hit publish, …
Happy new 2017! We hope everybody had a great celebration. We at Telegram certainly did. One of our engineers got so excited about the new year that he mistakenly shared these stickers with his Mom: Ooops! To fix this, he quickly added a way to unsend recently sent messages. This smart move saved his morning, …
Telegram was available for desktops and laptops since 2013. Today it finally graduates to version 1.0 with a fabulous new design. Consistent material design, great animations, and support for custom themes make Telegram for Windows, Mac, and Linux the tool for messaging from your Mac or PC. This is what Telegram Desktop 1.0 looks like: …
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Google has just unveiled Android Wear 2.0, the latest in smartwatch platforms. It supports standalone apps, so today we're releasing Telegram for Android Wear 2.0. It‘s everything you’d want from a perfect watch app — compact, beautiful, and super-fast. Using this tiny yet powerful app, you can browse your chats and quickly reply to messages …
We believe in freedom. This is why Telegram is a free and open platform – for stickers, for bots, and even for third-party client apps. We believe that if we give you freedom, you’ll know what to do with it. Starting today, 85% of Telegram users can completely change what Telegram looks like for them. …
UPD, August 2020: Telegram also supports end-to-end encrypted video calls. UPD, December 2020: You can start a voice chat with thousands of participants in any group. Over the past few months, we’ve worked hard to make sure Telegram calls are the best in terms of quality, speed, and security. The wait is over: today Voice …
Version 4.0 is the mother of all Telegram updates. Note that we're also launching Video messages + Telescope and Payments for Bots today. UPD 30.05: We've increased the prize fund of our contest to $315,000 by adding more target domains. Join today! Rejoice, brethren and sistren, the day has come! Instant View is now ready …
UPD 2021: For up-to-date information about Payments on Telegram, see Payments 2.0 and the Payments Documentation. Imagine a world where you can order pizza, pay for a pair of shoes, hire a cab, or refill your subway pass — all in a few button taps on Telegram. To make this world possible, we are launching …
Since 2015 when we first introduced replies, the maximum group size on Telegram has increased by 100 times – from 200 max members to 20,000. These days you can get new mentions or replies in group chats many times during a day – and it’s important not to miss those messages. Starting with Telegram 4.3, …
We know you love the speed and simplicity of voice messages on Telegram. Starting today, you can also send video messages – just as swiftly: To send a video message, go to any chat on Telegram and tap the mic icon to switch to camera mode. Now all you need to do is tap and …
This is an old blog post. In case you missed it, groups can already have up to 200,000 members each. With Telegram 4.1, we're increasing the maximum size of supergroups to 10,000 members each. That’s a lot of people packed into one group, and now users and admins can use search to find specific users …
We at Telegram love to build sophisticated technologies that combine speed with security. Starting with Telegram 4.2, we support CDN caching. CDNs are third-party caching nodes that we’ll use to cache publicly available videos and photos posted in massive channels (say, with 100,000+ subscribers) for users in remote locations where Telegram is popular. This will …
Telegram 4.2 is here! We have completely redesigned our photo editing tools, and it takes you even fewer taps to make your photos look amazing. In addition, you can now set a self-destruct timer for any photos and videos you share in private chats. If you set a timer, the countdown starts the moment your …
This May, we've launched our Instant View Platform and a $200,000 competition to create templates — sets of instructions that tell our bot how to turn an article on a given website into a slick Instant View page. Instant View pages load in a blink of an eye and support images, videos, and other media. …
Starting with Telegram 4.4, you can broadcast your current location to any chat in real time. This is useful when you are on your way to an appointment or are trying to coordinate with friends at a large event. Instead of sending static locations on the map every minute, you can now share your Live …
Starting with Telegram 4.5, whenever you send multiple photos or videos they are grouped into albums. Each album can include up to 10 photos or videos, arranged in the chat as elegantly proportioned thumbnails. They will also result in one notification instead of ten on the recipient’s side. Photo Order From now on, you can …
Happy winter holidays, everyone! To reinforce the festive mood, we‘re updating Telegram for the second time this December, adding features you’ve been asking for. With version 4.7 for iOS, you can change what your Telegram looks like in the new Appearance settings. Choose between four different themes, including a minimalistic one (“Day”) and two dark …
Telegram offers developers more than just the Bot API. Since day one, we've also had a free and open Telegram API that allows anyone to create their own messaging apps operating in the Telegram cloud. These apps openly compete with the official ones and some of them have now reached more than 10 million downloads …
UPD: As of October 2018, Telegram X for iOS has replaced the older Objective-C based client. If you're looking for the best iOS experience, switch to the main Telegram app. Our mission is to make Telegram faster, slicker and easier to use with each passing month. Competition is the soul of progress, so at first …
This post is from Feb 2018. For up-to date information on integrating services with Telegram please see this post. For Telegram Widgets, see this page. Today we present a Telegram Login Widget for external websites. When you use Telegram login for the first time, our widget asks for your phone number and sends you a …
Today's 4.8 update to Telegram for Android introduces video streaming. You can now start watching videos right away – without having to fully download them first. Streaming-ready video in a chat All videos newly uploaded from official Telegram apps can be streamed with version 4.8. You can see the caching progress as a light grey …
In other news: Telegram has now reached 200 million monthly active users. Today we're launching Telegram 4.8 for iOS and Telegram 4.8.5 for Android which make it much easier to discover new stickers. From now on, when you type one emoji, you will see suggestions not just from the sticker sets you've added, but also …
Within the last 30 days, Telegram was used by 200,000,000 people. This is an insane number by any standards. If Telegram were a country, it would have been the sixth largest country in the world. We owe reaching this milestone to you alone – our users. We have never promoted Telegram with ads, so all …
Telegram 4.8.3 for iOS and 4.8.10 for Android are out today, bringing several nifty features and improvements. Replace Media and Add Captions Sending the wrong picture by accident is rarely fun. On Telegram, it was already possible to delete the message for everyone and send a new one instead. Now you can just replace photos …
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Our digital lives are getting closer and closer to the real world, and the number of services that need to know your real-life ID increases accordingly. Before today, this meant you had to upload the same document scans over and over for each new app. No more! Meet Telegram Passport – a unified authorization method …