The official news channel. Each app update is announced feature by feature, with a link to the full post on the Telegram blog.
Recent posts are monthly feature announcements, each naming one new Telegram feature and linking to the full release blog. They cover AI summaries and an AI text editor running on the Cocoon network, a redesigned Android app and Liquid Glass on iOS, gift crafting and signed gifts, member tags, disabling sharing in private chats, richer polls, watch apps, and a long list of bot features such as guest bots, bot-to-bot messaging and AI admins for groups.
Short explainers of one feature at a time, written in Telegram's own voice. The quickest way to learn settings you did not know existed.
Recent posts are short feature explainers, each naming one Telegram feature and how to turn it on. They cover profile ratings and music on profiles, collectible gift themes, auctions, crafting and purchase offers, passkey login, repeating scheduled messages, live stories with RTMP keys, and AI summaries and a text editor running on the Cocoon network. Later posts focus on bots, including guest bots, bot-to-bot communication, streaming text, rich formatting, chat automation in profiles and AI admins for groups.
Pavel Durov's personal channel. He uses it to preview features and to state Telegram's position on privacy and regulation.
Recent posts announce Telegram features such as bot-to-bot messaging, chat automation, a rich text editor, carousels, sticker search and native apps for Apple Watch and Wear OS. Several posts cover TON, including the rename of its coin to Gram and the rollout of a built-in Gram wallet. Others report prize money for coding olympiads and creator contests, and give the founder's views on government bans, WhatsApp privacy, the French investigation and Russia's treatment of him.
Explains what the paid Premium subscription and Telegram Business add, one feature per post. Useful before deciding whether to subscribe.
Recent posts each introduce a single Premium or Telegram Business feature with a short description, such as custom emoji in polls and folders, link widgets in stories, star messages, public post search, checklists, disabling sharing in private chats and a rich text editor. Earlier posts cover gifting subscriptions, channel and group boosts, account and profile colors, payment questions and business tools like greeting messages, away messages and quick replies.
Release notes for the Telegram Bot API. Follow it if you build or run bots; most users can skip it.
Recent posts are release notes for successive Bot API versions, each listing new methods and fields with a link to the full changelog. They cover Mini Apps features such as full-screen mode, cloud storage and the Mini App Store, payments in Telegram Stars with subscriptions, paid media, giveaways and affiliate programs, and tools for Telegram Business bots. Later posts introduce managed bots, bot-to-bot communication for AI agents, guest mode, rich text formatting, ephemeral group messages and buttons inside messages.
Telegram's coding contests for Android, iOS, JavaScript and C++, with deadlines, tasks and results.
Recent posts announce Telegram's own competitions, give the task and rules, answer common questions, open submissions through ContestBot and publish winner lists with prize amounts. Contests cover an Android profile redesign, Liquid Glass effects for older iOS versions, design concepts for new app features, animated collectible gift artwork, a TON consensus bug bounty and a Digital Freedom video contest for content creators. Results posts often add notes from the judges on how entries were reviewed.