Full channel management panel: drafts, scheduled posts, visual editor, buttons and reactions, stats — all from a browser control panel. Free web app, 644 thousand monthly users, Russian and English.
Best Telegram bots for Post scheduling
These bots let you write a batch of Telegram posts in advance and set them to publish automatically at chosen times, so a channel keeps a regular schedule without anyone online at 8 a.m. to hit send.
The best Telegram bot for post scheduling is TelepostBot (@telepostbot): a full channel management panel in the browser with drafts, scheduled posts, a visual editor, buttons and stats, free and used by over 640,000 people a month. Controller Bot (@ControllerBot) schedules posts with inline and reaction buttons from the chat itself, and Notepost (@notepostbot) adds templates, auto-signatures and posting scripts in Russian.
Channel posting assistant: schedules posts, adds inline buttons and reaction buttons, formats text, shows channel stats. Free core, paid add-ons; Russian and English, 235 thousand monthly users.
Open-source RSS-to-channel bot: subscribe to any feed and new items post automatically, formatted for readability. Free, self-hostable.
74 / 100
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Feature-dense posting bot for channels: templates, scheduling, buttons, auto-signatures and posting scripts. Free to start, Russian interface.
73 / 100
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Top-rated RSS and social media forwarder: pulls posts from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X and RSS feeds into your channel. Free tier, 23 thousand monthly users.
Connector bot for the Postoplan multi-network scheduler: plan and publish Telegram posts alongside other social networks from one dashboard. Free tier up to 30 posts a month.
68 / 100
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Content planning bot for channels: build a content plan and publish it on schedule. Free, English interface.
61 / 100
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Connector bot for the Onlypult multi-network scheduler: link your channel to schedule Telegram posts alongside Instagram, VK and other networks. Paid service with a trial.
61 / 100
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Bot entry point for SMM Planner, a social-media post-scheduling service covering Telegram alongside VK, Instagram and other platforms — queue up content in advance instead of posting manually every day. Freemium, Russian interface.
60 / 100
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Comparison
| # | Bot | Price | Languages | Inline | Groups | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TelepostBot @telepostbot | Freemium | RU · EN | no | no | 81 |
| 2 | Controller Bot @ControllerBot | Freemium | RU · EN | no | no | 80 |
| 3 | RSS to Telegram Bot @RSStT_Bot | Free | EN · MULTI | no | no | 74 |
| 4 | Notepost @notepostbot | Freemium | RU | no | no | 73 |
| 5 | AximoBot @AximoBot | Freemium | EN | no | no | 70 |
| 6 | PostoplanBot @postoplan_bot | Freemium · up to 30 scheduled posts per month | RU · EN | no | no | 68 |
| 7 | Channely @channely_bot | Free | EN | no | no | 61 |
| 8 | Onlypult @onlypult_bot | Paid | EN · RU | no | no | 61 |
| 9 | SMM Planner @smmplanner_bot | Freemium | RU | no | no | 60 |
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How we chose
We scheduled five posts across one day — plain text, a photo with caption, a media album, a poll, and a post meant for two channels at once — and checked publishing accuracy to the minute, timezone handling, whether a scheduled post can be edited or deleted before it goes out, and what happens if the bot is briefly offline at the scheduled moment.
Post scheduling
How to choose a scheduling bot
Telegram's own channel interface has a built-in 'schedule message' option (hold the send button), which covers single posts fine. A dedicated bot is worth it once you need more: bulk scheduling from a queue, posting to several channels at once, recurring posts, or a content calendar view. Check timezone settings first — a bot defaulting to UTC while you plan in Moscow time is a common source of posts going out at the wrong hour.
What to check before trusting a bot
The bot needs posting rights on your channel, which is a higher-trust permission than analytics access — it can publish, and sometimes delete, content on your behalf. Test the failure case deliberately: what happens to a scheduled post if the bot has downtime at the exact minute it should fire? A reliable bot queues and retries; a fragile one silently drops the post. Also confirm you can edit or cancel a queued post up until the last moment.
Free vs paid
Free plans usually allow scheduling for one channel with a cap on the number of queued posts (often 10-30). Paid tiers add multi-channel/crossposting, recurring schedules, a visual content calendar, and team access so more than one editor can queue posts. A single-channel hobby project rarely needs to pay; anyone running several channels or an ad-posting schedule benefits from the paid queue limits.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free bot for scheduling Telegram posts?
Yes, though keep in mind Telegram itself has a built-in scheduled-message feature for single posts; a bot is mainly useful once you need bulk queuing or multi-channel posting, and free tiers usually cover a basic version of that.
Can I schedule the same post to several channels at once?
Most dedicated scheduling bots support crossposting to multiple channels from one queue, though the number of channels allowed for free is usually limited to two or three.
What happens to my scheduled post if the bot goes down?
Reliable bots queue the post server-side and retry publishing once they're back online; it's worth testing this specifically, since a bot that just drops the post silently can leave a channel with a gap in its schedule.