After asserting Telegram Premium earlier this month, the messaging app has lastly rolled out the paid tier, which provides customers entry to additional options for $4.99 / month (through TechCrunch). All the options are outlined in a post on Telegram’s blog, with a few of its greater attracts together with quicker downloads and a bigger most file add measurement of 4GB (somewhat than the usual 2GB).

Premium subscribers may even get double the bounds imposed on normal customers. Instead of becoming a member of as much as 500 channels, subscribers are capped at 1,000 channels. The similar goes for different options on Telegram — subscribers can create 20 chat folders with 200 chats every, save as much as 10 stickers, pin as much as 10 chats, and add a complete of 4 accounts to Telegram as an alternative of three. Premium customers additionally get to have longer bios with a hyperlink.

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Some different perks embody entry to a library of Premium stickers with extra obnoxious full-screen animations, unique emoji reactions, and animated profile footage (form of like those you see on Steam). There’s additionally textual content conversion for voice messages in case you don’t have headphones helpful, along with chat administration instruments that can help you change your default chat folder. Oh, and subscribing to Premium removes sponsored messages in public channels.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s views on the platform’s freemium tier have remained unchanged since he first brought up the possibility in 2020. In line with what he mentioned beforehand, Durov stated last week that free options will stay free and new options received’t affect the Telegram expertise for non-subscribers. This means free Telegram customers ought to be capable to obtain bigger information uploaded by subscribers, in addition to view the premium reactions or emojis they use.

Durov additionally promised that Telegram received’t cease growing options without cost customers both, which the platform seems to be following via on to this point. The newest Telegram replace shows verified badges in chats (not simply in profiles, search outcomes, or chat lists), offers public teams the flexibility to allow be part of requests, and provides a number of platform-specific enhancements.

That mentioned, Telegram Premium comes with so much of options, a lot of which can in all probability be engaging to essentially the most energetic of Telegram’s — now 700 million sturdy — userbase. I personally like that almost all of Premium’s perks construct off of Telegram’s present options. The new tier doesn’t put options behind a paywall that ought to’ve been on the platform within the first place (sort of like what Twitter did with its “undo” button).