Search has a tab listing mini apps: the ones you have used, and others ranked by how many people use them. Opening one installs nothing.
It is a directory of software with no download, no permissions screen and no uninstalling — which is the appeal and the thing to hold in mind.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Find mini apps you have not seen.
- check_circle Return to one you used last month.
- check_circle Judge one before opening it.
- check_circle Know what the popularity figure means.
The apps tab sits alongside the other search tabs and lists what you have opened before.
apps No install, and no uninstall either
The absence of an installation step is what makes this pleasant. Nothing takes up space, nothing asks for permissions at the door, and a thing you try once and dislike simply stops being opened.
It also removes the moment where people normally think. An app store makes you read a name, a publisher and a permission list before anything happens; here you tap and are inside somebody's web page, already identified to it by Telegram.
So the judgement has to happen a step earlier, at the listing. The useful signals are the same ones you would use anywhere: who made it, whether the bot behind it has a real presence, whether the description says what it does rather than how exciting it is.
The popularity figure is worth reading carefully. It counts people who opened the app, and a large share of mini app traffic comes from campaigns that paid or rewarded people to open them. A high number tells you the app was promoted, not that it is good, and the two are frequently unrelated here.
Four ways to use the list
The second is the reason to open the tab at all.
search Searching rather than browsing
history The one you used once
fact_check Before tapping
build The ones worth having
Search for a task. Popularity here measures promotion, not usefulness.
settings Using the directory
- Open search and choose the apps tab Beside the other tabs.
- Search for the task Rather than browsing the ranking.
- Look at the bot behind the app Before opening it.
- Use the list to return to one That is its best function.
- Pin the bot for the ones you keep Faster than searching each time.
- Skip anything promising earnings Whatever its position in the list.
This page finds apps to open. The curriculum step is what opening one grants: what a bot and its app can see, why the minimum is the right amount, and how to review what you have already let in.
At a glance
- 1Find mini apps
Browse the mini app directory in search.
- 2Check before opening
Look at who runs it before tapping.
- 3Popularity
Rankings often reflect promotion spending.
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