Telegram Premium Subscription Has Been Rolled Out, Here is What You Should Know
Telegram Has Finally Launches it Premium Subscription For $4.99/Month, Introducing Faster Download, Improvement in Chat Management and Exclusive Sticker and Reactions.
After announcing Telegram Paid Tier earlier this month, the messaging app has finally launched the premium subscription, which enable users to access exclusive features for $4.99 per month.
According to Telegram, this premium plan brings additional and improve features which includes sending of files as large as 4GB (up from 2GB) and supports faster downloads, for instance.
Paid users will also be enables to follow up to 1,000 channels, instead of 500 channel offered to free users, plus creating of up to 20 chat folders with as many as 200 chats each.
In addition, Telegram paid customers will also be able to add up to four (4) accounts in the messaging app and pin up to 10 chats.
Some other additional features include user's access to a library of Premium stickers with more obnoxious full-screen animations, exclusive emoji reactions, and animated profile pictures (sort of like the ones you see on Steam). There’s also text conversion for voice messages in case you don’t have headphones handy, in addition to chat management tools that let you to change your default chat folder. Oh, and subscribing to Premium removes sponsored messages in public channels.
Full list of Telegram Premium Features.
- 4GB uploads.
- Faster downloads.
- Connect up to four (4) accounts in any app.
- Organize your chats into 20 folders, holding 200 chats each.
- Pin up to ten (10) chats in your main list.
- Reserve up to 20 public t.me public links.
- Save 400 favorite GIFs and 10 favorite stickers.
- Write a longer bio for your profile and include links.
- Include longer captions for photos and videos.
- Voice-to-text transcriptions.
- More Exclusive stickers and reactions.
- Premium verification badge on profile.
- Profile video support.
- No ads.
- More custom icons.
For more details about the features the paid plan offers, see here.
About Telegram
Telegram is a messaging app that has see a massive growth in the recent years. In 2022, the app became one of the top-5 downloaded apps worldwide and now has over 700 million monthly active users.
This massive growth didn't come from paid advertisement, Telegram has never pay to advertise its app. However, It solely from personal recommended.
As Telegram keeps growing massively triggered the team to offer premium account for users to unlock additional exclusive features, including doubled limits, 4 GB file uploads, faster downloads, exclusive stickers and reactions, improved chat management – and a whole lot more.
Telegram Premium Subscription: CEO Speech
Telegram founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Pavel Durov said earlier this month that the possibility to launch a paid subscription was brought to respond to user demand for additional storage/bandwidth.
After giving it some thought, we realized that the only way to let our most demanding fans get more while keeping our existing features free is to make those raised limits a paid option.
- Said Durov.
Though the paid users will have access to more and new exclusive features, however the free features will remain free and new features won’t impact the Telegram experience for free users.
Durov has pledged to "keep a number of core features in the messaging app free to users" and also continue to "build new features for the non-premium users"
