Ask That
@askthatbot
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An Ask.fm-style Q&A bot: share your link, receive anonymous questions and answer them publicly, with a mini-app to browse, edit and delete what you have asked and received. Free.
Key features
- Personal link for receiving anonymous questions
- Public answers to the questions you choose
- Ask other people anonymously through their links
- Mini-app to browse, answer, delete and edit questions and answers
What Ask That does
Ask That brings the Ask.fm mechanic into Telegram. You get a personal link, people use it to send you questions without their name attached, and you decide which ones to answer publicly. It works in both directions: you can also use other people's links to ask them something anonymously.
What sets it apart from the plain "anonymous inbox" bots in this category is the mini-app its developer added in August 2024. Instead of scrolling through a chat, you open a list of the questions you have received and the ones you have asked, answer or delete them, and edit an answer after it is posted. According to the developer's channel, the mini-app won a prize in Telegram's Mini App Contest, and at that point the bot had passed 32,000 users and 6,000 questions. Those are the author's own figures, not an independent count.
The bot is a one-person project by the developer behind the @elmsec_official channel, where updates are announced. There is no separate website, privacy policy or public pricing, and no paid features have been announced. As with any anonymous Q&A service, you cannot verify who asked, so keep answers free of anything that identifies you.
How to start
- Open @askthatbot and send /start
- Copy your personal link and share it in your profile or stories
- Answer the questions you want to make public, in the chat or the mini-app
Pricing and limits
Free
Pros / Cons
- Mini-app makes managing questions and answers much easier than a plain chat
- Works both ways, for receiving and for asking
- Actively announced by its developer, with a prize from Telegram's Mini App Contest
- No website or privacy policy; the user numbers come only from the developer
- One-person project, so there is no guarantee of long-term support
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Score breakdown
| Criterion | Weight | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Functionality | 25 | 7 / 10 | |
| Reliability & speed | 15 | 5 / 10 | |
| Popularity & trust | 15 | 5 / 10 | |
| Price & free tier | 10 | 9 / 10 | |
| Usability | 10 | 7 / 10 | |
| Safety & privacy | 10 | 5 / 10 | |
| Freshness | 5 | 5 / 10 | |
| Localization | 5 | 10 / 10 | |
| No intrusive ads | 5 | 9 / 10 | |
| Score | 100 | 65.5 |
FAQ
Can the person I answer see who asked the question?
The bot is built so that questions arrive without the sender's name. There is no published privacy policy, though, so treat anonymity as a feature of the service, not a guarantee, and never share anything you would regret being traced back to you.
Is Ask That free?
No paid features are mentioned in the bot's description or in the developer's announcements, so for now it works as a free bot.
Technical details
- Inline mode
- Mini App
- Works in groups
- Works in channels
- Accepts voice
- Accepts files
- Requires phone number
- Requires registration
- Shows ads
