Works in channels Telegram bots

The most-used contest bot for Telegram: fair random winner selection with subscription checks. Free, 3.4 million monthly users.

High-scale contest bot with a "Boost on Luck" mechanic: up to 100 winners, votes increase chances. Free, open source, 2.9 million monthly users.

Security-focused giveaway bot: subscription checks, bot-protection and no ads. Free, 1.1 million monthly users.

A hugely popular post-building tool for channel owners and marketers: design a message with templates, inline buttons and premium emoji, then send it to any chat or channel with one click. Free, over 3.5 million monthly users.

Fully automated giveaway bot: publishes results without manual intervention. Free, 1.3 million monthly users.

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.

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.

Transparency-focused giveaway bot: detailed reports so participants can verify the draw was fair. Free, 783 thousand monthly users.

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.

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.

Admin-side analytics bot from TGStat: add it to your own channel for deeper audience insights than the public lookup tool gives. Free core, 347 thousand monthly users.

Feature-rich contest bot: seven contest types including comments, reactions and referrals, with Excel export. Free, 80 thousand monthly users.

Instant stats for any public Telegram channel, chat or post: subscriber counts, reach and growth trends. Free lookup, 66 thousand monthly users.

Open-source RSS-to-channel bot: subscribe to any feed and new items post automatically, formatted for readability. Free, self-hostable.

A universal web/RSS reader: submit a link to a website, forum, VK public page, Twitter or Instagram profile, and get updates delivered to Telegram, with paginated news so the feed does not get cluttered. Free, plus companion bots and channels.

Adds a real comment thread to every channel post: readers reply, admins get notified and moderate. Free, 37 thousand monthly users.

Feature-dense posting bot for channels: templates, scheduling, buttons, auto-signatures and posting scripts. Free to start, Russian interface.

Single-purpose spam remover: deletes typical spam messages from groups and channel chats with almost no setup. Free, Russian interface, 16 thousand monthly users.

Adds reactions and comments to your channel posts: compose in the bot, publish rich posts with interactive buttons. Free, 24 thousand monthly users.

Companion bot for the Telemetr.me analytics service: track channel stats and compare results with others. Free lookup.

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.

A long-running bot that subscribes to public GitHub repositories and posts new issues, pull requests, pushes and other events into a chat or channel, with the option to reply to issues from Telegram. Free, English interface, no repository access token required for public repos.

News delivery bot for Smart-lab, one of the longer-running Russian private-investor communities, pushing market news and posts from the site into Telegram. Free, Russian.

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

Audience-quality analytics for channels: detects bots and fake subscribers, finds audience overlap between channels, protects against raids. Free, Russian interface.

Compose posts with comments, then share them into your channels or groups. Free, 21 thousand monthly users.

One-way mirror from Telegram to VK: reposts new channel posts into a VKontakte community within seconds. Free.

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.

General automation bridge with a Telegram bot: connect RSS feeds and 360+ other services to a channel via no-code applets. Freemium.

Погодник sends a forecast for your city and links to a companion Telegram channel with daily updates, so you can either pull the forecast on demand or just follow the channel. Free, Russian.