Entertainment & games: Telegram bots

Telegram's official quiz builder: create multiple-choice quizzes with timers, explanations and media, share by link or inline, and see leaderboards. Free; 1.3 million monthly users.

Official inline bot: type @vid and a phrase to insert a YouTube video with preview into any chat. Free, no downloads, 236 thousand monthly users.

Official inline GIF search: type @gif and a mood or phrase in any chat and send an animation in one tap. Free, no app switching, 130 thousand monthly users.

A free bot that hosts the classic social-deduction game Mafia in any group chat — assigns roles, runs night and day phases and announces the winner. Free, close to 855,000 monthly users.

Official inline IMDb search: type @imdb and a title in any chat to send a card with poster, year, rating and link. Free, instant way to settle "what was that film" debates.

Telegram's official game bot: type @gamebot in any chat to send MathBattle, Corsairs or Lumberjack and compete with friends on a shared scoreboard. Free, no installs.

The official audiobook-discovery bot from Storytel: pick a mood with emoji, browse editor-picked audiobooks, listen to a sample and read the synopsis before you commit. Freemium via the Storytel subscription.

Tells you which legal streaming service — Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and others — actually has the film or series you want, powered by JustWatch and TMDb data. Free.

The official movie-recommendation bot from Russian legal streaming service Okko: answer a few questions about mood, genre or decade and it suggests a title from Okko's catalog with a direct link to watch. Free.

A rapid-fire trivia bot built specifically for group chats: add it, type "start," and it fires off questions from a bank of 150,000+ with a live per-chat ranking. Free.

A watchlist and reminder tool for films and series across Okko, ivi, Kinopoisk, Premier and other legal streaming services — tracks what to watch, sends premiere notifications, no piracy involved. Free.

Search, subscribe to and listen to podcasts right inside Telegram — episodes arrive as regular audio messages, no separate podcast app needed. Free.

An open-source bot that moderates the Werewolf social-deduction game in Telegram groups, tracking roles, votes and night actions automatically. Free, roughly 87,000 monthly users.

The official Yandex Books discovery bot with a playful twist: it shows you book "profiles" one at a time, like/skip each, and gets a match when you agree to give a book a try. Free.

Play the card game UNO with friends via Telegram's inline mode — no group add needed, just type @unobot in any chat to start a round. Free, roughly 42,000 monthly users.

The classic 20-questions genie, in Telegram form: think of any real or fictional character and the bot narrows it down with yes/no questions until it guesses who you had in mind. Free.

Search Project Gutenberg's library of 50,000+ public-domain ebooks and get the file sent straight to Telegram — completely free and completely legal.

A Mini App for playing full chess matches with friends and group members inside Telegram, complete with move history and live game state — no separate app, about 10,000 monthly users.

A simple discovery bot for classical music: ask it for something to listen to and it sends a piece from its library, no download, no account. Free, over 93,000 monthly users.

A reading-habit bot: pick a genre and difficulty and it suggests titles with short annotations, then helps you keep a reading streak going. Free.