The official Telegram bot for creating and managing bots: registers a new bot in a minute, issues the API token, sets commands, description and avatar. Free, English interface, no third-party sign-up.
Top lists · Updated September 5, 2026
Official Telegram bots
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, ad-free and work in Russia without a VPN.
The tool every other bot on Telegram is built with: register a bot and get its API token in about a minute.
Official bot that adds emoji reaction buttons under channel posts: pick 👍/❤️/🔥 or your own set, post through the bot, watch counters grow. Free, works where native reactions are off; 616 thousand monthly users.
Telegram's own reaction bot for channels where native reactions are switched off, with almost 620 thousand monthly users.
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.
Telegram's built-in arcade: type @gamebot in any chat to challenge friends to MathBattle, Corsairs or Lumberjack.
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.
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Telegram's official inline bridge to IMDb: settles a "who was in that movie" argument without leaving the chat.
Telegram's official poll maker: create a question with options, get a shareable poll message with live results for any chat, including channels. Free, no setup, 224 thousand monthly users.
The bot behind every native Telegram poll — create one with live results in any chat, including channels.
Telegram's own official bot for checking whether your account is spam-restricted and appealing the limitation — run by Telegram itself, with roughly 34 million monthly users.
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: create multiple-choice quizzes with timers, explanations and media, share by link or inline, and see leaderboards. Free; 1.3 million monthly users.
Telegram's official quiz builder, with timers, explanations and leaderboards — 1.3 million people use it monthly.
Official inline bot: type @wiki and a query in any chat to insert a Wikipedia article card without leaving the conversation. Free, works in every chat, no setup.
Type @wiki plus a query in any chat to drop in a Wikipedia card without switching apps.
Official inline image search: type @pic and a phrase in any chat and pick a picture from Yandex results to send instantly. Free, no app switching, 4.5 million monthly users.
Telegram's official inline image search over Yandex results — 4.5 million monthly users type @pic to find a picture fast.
Official inline bot that searches Bing images from any chat: type @bing and a phrase, tap a thumbnail, done. Free alternative to @pic with a different index.
The Bing-powered sibling of @pic, useful when its Yandex-based results don't turn up the image you want.
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.
Type @vid and a phrase to drop a YouTube video with a live preview into any chat, no downloading.
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.
Telegram's official inline GIF search — type a mood or phrase after @gif and send an animation in one tap.
Telegram's official bot for creating sticker and custom emoji packs: upload images or videos, assign emoji, publish a pack link. Free, no watermarks, no third-party apps.
Telegram's own tool for building sticker packs and custom emoji, no third-party app or watermark.
Official inline formatter: type @bold and your text in any chat to send it as bold, italic or monospace without markdown syntax. Free, instant, works everywhere.
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Formats any text as bold, italic or monospace with @bold, for anyone who doesn't want to remember Markdown syntax.
The built-in Telegram wallet as a Mini App: store and send TON, USDT and other assets to any Telegram contact, buy crypto with a card, use the P2P market. Free to use; identity verification for some features; availability depends on country.
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The wallet built into Telegram itself, for holding and sending TON, USDT and other assets to any contact.