@BotFather
The bots Telegram itself builds and runs — for creating bots, stickers, polls, quizzes and inline search — verified by the developer field on each bot's own card, not just by a professional-sounding name.
Telegram runs a small set of bots itself, alongside the thousands built by independent developers. These are the ones we could verify as genuinely developed by Telegram — through the bot's own profile, the official @Telegram channel or core.telegram.org documentation — not just because the name sounds official.
Most of them power features you already use without realizing a bot is behind them: @vote makes every native poll, @QuizBot builds quizzes with leaderboards, @wiki, @pic, @bing, @vid and @gif do inline search without leaving the chat, and @BotFather is how every other bot on this site got created. All are free and ad-free.
The tool every other bot on Telegram is built with: register a bot and get its API token in about a minute.
Telegram's own reaction bot for channels where native reactions are switched off, with almost 620 thousand monthly users.
Telegram's built-in arcade: type @gamebot in any chat to challenge friends to MathBattle, Corsairs or Lumberjack.
Telegram's official inline bridge to IMDb: settles a "who was in that movie" argument without leaving the chat.
The bot behind every native Telegram poll — create one with live results in any chat, including channels.
Telegram's own tool for checking and appealing a spam restriction on your account, used by roughly 34 million people a month.
Telegram's official quiz builder, with timers, explanations and leaderboards — 1.3 million people use it monthly.
Type @wiki plus a query in any chat to drop in a Wikipedia card without switching apps.
Telegram's official inline image search over Yandex results — 4.5 million monthly users type @pic to find a picture fast.
The Bing-powered sibling of @pic, useful when its Yandex-based results don't turn up the image you want.
Type @vid and a phrase to drop a YouTube video with a live preview into any chat, no downloading.
Telegram's official inline GIF search — type a mood or phrase after @gif and send an animation in one tap.
Telegram's own tool for building sticker packs and custom emoji, no third-party app or watermark.
Formats any text as bold, italic or monospace with @bold, for anyone who doesn't want to remember Markdown syntax.
Check the developer field on the bot's own card, look for Telegram's blue verification badge, or confirm the bot is mentioned on core.telegram.org or the @Telegram channel — a professional-sounding name alone proves nothing.
Yes — every bot on this list is free with no ads; @wallet is the one exception where some features need identity verification and availability depends on your country.
@BotFather is Telegram's own tool for creating and managing bots: it registers a new bot in about a minute and issues the API token every other bot on Telegram needs to run.
The wallet built into Telegram itself, for holding and sending TON, USDT and other assets to any contact.
