🏆 Design Contest 2025

Prize fund: $50,000 or more
Deadline: 23:59 Dubai time @ December 15, 2025
Who can participate: Everyone

📱 Telegram announces its most epic Design Contest, where top prize winners will each secure $10,000 and may also get a chance to join the Telegram Design Team.

THE TASK

Design a concept for Telegram Nodes entirely from the ground up, while preserving the familiar components of Telegram’s interfaces. It must feel seamless and aesthetically compelling while remaining clear and intuitive for users.

Nodes act as separate instances within the app that help users organize and streamline their communication flows – from personal to work. Nodes go far beyond simple chat folders or groups with topics enabled.

You may think of them as Discord-like servers or Slack-style workspaces that can contain multiple chat types, including voice and video chats, support in-depth admin management and user roles.

Users who join Telegram Nodes can set a profile picture, bio, and name that differ from their main account. They can then switch between Nodes and their main Telegram inbox – for example, via the left-side menu, which lists all their Nodes alongside any other Telegram accounts they’re logged into.

Your submissions must include:
1. A complete set of mockups for both the Android and iOS versions of the Telegram app.
2. A demo video for either platform in the same manner as the demonstrations from the Telegram Blog.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

• Clarity and usefulness are mandatory – everything must feel immediately understandable to users, leaving no room for confusion.
• Thoughtful feature engineering – the design should reflect an implementation-ready concept.
• All sides must be considered – you must deliver both the user and admin flows.
• A well-thought entry point and clear Nodes management are essential.
• Support for both day and night themes is mandatory.

Submission Format:

1) The layouts can be implemented as static .png files. For the animation demos, use .mp4 format (without sound).
Source files and properly structured Figma projects are also welcome.
2) For included videos, you must also provide several static .png images from each video that serve as a storyboard.
3) If you use complex animated icons, they must be in lottie json or .tgs format.

Further submission instructions will be announced closer to the deadline.

🎨 Telegram Contest for Artists

Total prize pool: Up to $50,000
Deadline: 23:59 @ Dec 31, 2025 (Dubai time)

📱 Telegram announces a new contest for artwork creators.

THE TASK

🎁 – create unique vector-based appearances of the following Collectible Gift. To get a better idea of Gift Collections and their different models, you may browse the existing sets in Settings → Send Gift → Collectibles.

Proceed with either:

Option A
Prepare vector artwork and animate it using Adobe After Effects. Submit each gift model as an .aep file. You will find a reference file attached below this message.

Option B
Prepare static vector artwork with Adobe Illustrator. Submit each gift model as an .ai file.

We will reward you with up to $500 for each gift model you create. You may submit as many as you like, provided their quality and visual appeal match or exceed those of our existing gifts.

Submission Guidelines:

You must submit your models as .tgs + .aep files for animated and .png + .ai files for static artwork respectively. You may additionally place your models into a single sticker pack.

Further instructions will be announced closer to the deadline.

Telegram Contest for Artists: Submissions

Your submissions will have two core parts:

1. A Telegram channel – where you post:
– All gift models you created, one by one as separate stickers (please combine them into a single sticker pack with the help of @stickers). Should you be unable to meet the requirements for animation artwork, post a video recording instead.

2. A .zip archive – which must contain:
– Your static models as .png + .ai files
or
– Your animated models as .tgs + .aep files
or both

Note: Your channel may stay private until the deadline. Make sure you assign it a username after the deadline while not revoking the original private link you will be submitting. There is no need to upload archives from step 2 to the channel.

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ℹ️ We will announce SEPARATELY once @ContestBot will be ready to accept your submissions. In the meantime make sure you will have your channels and archives prepared.

🚨 Last Call

The deadline is in less than 6 hours.

Start uploading your work now. A submission is considered successful only after the archive has been fully uploaded.

Do not postpone your submission until the very last moment.

Late submissions will not be accepted.

🏆 Design Contest 2025: Results

🔄 The results for Round 1 are in.

🆒 Contestants produced a tremendous amount of high-quality work. We increased the prize pool by more than 50% to fairly reward all the notable submissions.

▶️ Another round for selected winners is live.

🏆 Design Contest 2026, Round 2: Results

😲 90% of eligible winners from Round 1 decided to continue making Telegram better and suggested a bunch of meaningful improvements to further polish the apps.

🤲 Thank you all for your efforts – this steady pace and persistence are what set you apart, and it's what we value at Telegram. Keep going!

💡 Now meet the winners and their inventive ideas:

1st PLACE
🥇 Brave Flamingo | Open Channel – $2,300
🥇 Desert Bass | Open Channel – $2,200
🥇 Sexy Leopard | Open Channel – $2,100
🥇 Strict Crow | Open Channel – $2,000

2nd PLACE
🥈 Eager Duck | Open Channel – $1,500
🥈 Humble Cockroach | Open Channel – $1,300
🥈 Sunny Mink | Open Channel – $1,300
🥈 Caring Eagle | Open Channel – $1,300
🥈 Crazy Gnat | Open Channel – $1,200

3rd PLACE
🥉 Cuddly Turtle | Open Channel – $1,000
🥉 Noble Swallow | Open Channel – $1,000
🥉 Merry Bat | Open Channel – $900
🥉 Shiny Fish | Open Channel – $900
🥉 Mighty Crab | Open Channel – $900

4th PLACE
🎖 Nimble Kitten | Open Channel – $700
🎖 Gifted Puma | Open Channel – $700
🎖 Nimble Sheep | Open Channel – $400
🎖 Mighty Falcon | Open Channel – $300

Congratulations to the winners! Stay tuned for more contests and have a great week ahead!

✨ Designers × AI

🆕 The mockup era is over. Today’s AI tools give every designer a superpower: you can now craft your ideas, not just draw them.

The gap between “what if…?” and “look, it works!” has never been smaller, and that changed how we build features in Telegram.

Message @designers to submit your concepts.

✔️ We accept
– Working, ready-to-implement code
complemented by
– A demo video of your feature in action

🗑 We no longer accept
– Static mockups
– Demo videos with no code behind them
– Text-only concepts

No coding background? Curiosity, attention to detail and a good prompt will take you far.

The future of design isn’t drawn – it’s built.

🚀 Let's build it together!

(An example of what is possible by our iOS designer – this is a ready to use implementation not a motion video.) 👇

🎙 Proposed Idea: Voice Message Transcription and AI Summary

We've all been in situations where we've received long voice messages. Maybe your manager dictated a bunch of tasks, a friend shared a story, or a classmate sent a lecture recording. And often, you need to do more than just listen — you need to find something important, jot down a thought, or respond to something that was said.

And that's where things get frustrating. You replay the voice message, skip back and forth, trying to remember where something specific was mentioned. And when you want to respond to a particular moment, you have to explain exactly what you're referring to.

Transcription partially solves this problem. But simply having the text isn't enough. Quickly finding what you need, jumping to that moment in the audio, or quoting what was said is still inconvenient.

💡 What if we turned transcription into a fully functional tool for working with voice messages?
Imagine tapping on a voice message and opening a dedicated interface where audio and text work together.

✏️ The transcript syncs with playback, highlighting words in real time. Tap any word, and you'll jump straight to that moment in the audio. You can search for a specific phrase, select text, copy it, translate it, or quote it in a reply with an exact timestamp.

But what if you don't have time to go through a long transcript?

✨ That's where AI Summary comes in: key takeaways, questions, and tasks, all in one place. Each item has a timestamp, so you can jump straight to the relevant moment in the recording.

As a result, you can interact with voice messages just as easily as with regular text, instead of simply listening to them from beginning to end.

🔗 More details and code at the link: https://github.com/patsoooo/telegram-voice-transcription

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Select any area of a photo and reply directly to it. Your reply highlights the selected detail, and tapping it opens the original photo zoomed in. No annotations or extra images needed.

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💎 Offer on Gifts Directly from Chat

Tap Money in any chat, pick one of their gifts, and make an offer in GRAM. They can accept or decline in one tap. Your GRAM is safely held and returned if they decline or 24h pass.

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🖼️ Per-Photo Actions & Editing for Sent Albums

Press and hold any photo in an album, then slide your finger across the others to reply to, edit, forward or save just the one you need. Sent albums can be edited too: remove photos, add new ones, reorder them and change the caption.

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💬 Quick Sticker Reply — Send Stickers Like Reactions

Reply with a sticker as quickly as you react to a message. Just hold the sticker icon, slide to your favorite sticker, and release to send. No need to open the sticker panel.

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