Telegram Amasses 700 Mn Monthly Users, Rolls Out Premium Subscription

Telegram has finally rolled out its subscription plan that will support the messaging app’s development in near future. Called Telegram Premium, the subscription will give users access to exclusive additional features. 

After it became one of the top-5 downloaded apps in 2022, Telegram has amassed over 700 million monthly active users. Backed with this fresh development, the messaging app has launched its premium subscription plan. 

By subscribing to Telegram Premium, users can upload files up to 4GB in size, access faster downloads, exclusive stickers and reactions and enhanced chat management. These resource-heavy features will come along with all the existing features that the users have relied on for almost a decade.

With this roll out of premium plan, people who use the app for free can also download extra-large documents and view stickers sent by premium users, and also tap increase counters on premium reactions already added to a message.

Premium users can follow up to 1000 channels and create up to 20 chat folders with up to 200 chats each. They can also add a fourth account to any Telegram app, pin 10 chats in the main list and save up to 10 favorite stickers.

The Telegram Premium subscription also allows users to convert voice messages to text if they prefer to read what the audio says. The plan has debuted new tools that allow users to organise their chat list. So, they can now change their default folder so the app always opens on a custom folder or, say, Unread instead of All Chats.

“Additionally, subscribers can enable a setting in Privacy and Security to automatically archive and mute new chats, helping organise even the busiest chat lists”, Telegram announced on its blog.

Telegram has debuted its premium subscription at USD 5 per month.