After saying Telegram Premium earlier this month, the messaging app has lastly rolled out the paid tier, which supplies customers entry to further options for $4.99 / month (through TechCrunch). All of the options are outlined in a submit on Telegram’s weblog, with a few of its larger attracts together with sooner downloads and a bigger most file add dimension of 4GB (quite than the usual 2GB).
Premium subscribers can even get double the bounds imposed on commonplace customers. As a substitute of becoming a member of as much as 500 channels, subscribers are capped at 1,000 channels. The identical 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 a substitute of three. Premium customers additionally get to have longer bios with a hyperlink.
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Another perks embody entry to a library of Premium stickers with extra obnoxious full-screen animations, unique emoji reactions, and animated profile photos (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 will let 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 introduced up the chance in 2020. According to what he stated beforehand, Durov said final week that free options will stay free and new options gained’t affect the Telegram expertise for non-subscribers. This implies free Telegram customers ought to be capable of obtain bigger information uploaded by subscribers, in addition to view the premium reactions or emojis they use.
Durov additionally promised that Telegram gained’t cease creating options free of charge customers both, which the platform seems to be following via on to date. 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 just a few platform-specific enhancements.
That stated, Telegram Premium comes with lots of options, a lot of which can in all probability be enticing to probably 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 brand new tier doesn’t put options behind a paywall that ought to’ve been on the platform within the first place (type of like what Twitter did with its “undo” button).
