Posting to a Telegram channel on a schedule usually means one of two things: setting reminders and posting by hand, or giving a bot admin rights and hoping it behaves. The post scheduler is a planned TelegramBuddy service that will let you schedule Telegram posts from a queue, approve each one before it goes out, and publish at the times you pick. This is coming to TelegramBuddy and is not built yet — join the waitlist below for early access.
Everything below describes how the service is intended to work. Details may change before launch, and there is no release date.
What the scheduler will do
The scheduler is planned to sit between where posts come from and where they are published. When it launches, you’ll be able to:
- Queue posts from a forwarding rule, or from a private “drafts” chat where you and your team write posts.
- Review them in one list: approve, edit, reject or reorder.
- Publish on a schedule using posting slots, an exact date and time, or straight away once approved.
- Delay automatically, so posts from a source wait a set time before going out, giving you a window to catch mistakes.
Who it is for
- Channel owners who write in batches and want posts spread through the day or week.
- Teams where one person drafts and another signs off — the pre-moderation step most channels do informally in a group chat.
- Channels fed by automation that want a human to approve posts before they appear, instead of deleting bad ones after the fact.
- Anyone posting across time zones who wants posts to land when readers are awake, not when the author is.
How it will work
- Choose the destination. Pick a channel or group where you can post.
- Choose where drafts come from. Either a private chat you post drafts into, or an auto forward rule that copies posts from a source you own.
- Set the rules for review. Require approval for every post, only for some (for example posts with links), or none at all with a fixed delay.
- Set posting times. Define slots like “weekdays at 9:00 and 18:00”, or leave posts to go out as soon as they are approved.
- Approve and let it run. Posts will move from the queue to your channel at their time, sent from your own Telegram account.
Details that matter
Approval and editing together. A review step is only useful if you can fix things without starting over. Approved posts are meant to be editable in the queue, and the post editor is planned to apply automatic changes — link replacement, signatures — before a post reaches review.
Filtering before review. Not every post deserves a human’s attention. A keyword filter can drop obvious noise so the review queue holds only posts worth deciding on.
Your account, not a bot. Posts are designed to be published from your own Telegram account, so they appear as the channel’s normal posts. You will only be able to schedule into chats where you already have the right to post.
Where it runs. The delivery model is not final. Whether scheduled posts need your computer on, or run somewhere else, will be made clear before launch. We would rather say “not decided” than promise something we have not built.
Rights. Scheduling does not change what you are allowed to post. If you are queuing content from another channel, make sure you have the right to republish it. Channels with “Restrict saving content” switched on are telling you their posts should not leave; ask the owner.
How it compares to the usual options
| Telegram’s built-in scheduling | Posting bots | TelegramBuddy scheduler (planned) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schedule a single message | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Queue with posting slots | No | Often | Planned |
| Approval before publishing | No | Sometimes | Planned |
| Automatic edits before review | No | Varies | Planned, with the post editor |
| Posts from your own account | Yes | Usually the bot | Yes |
Telegram’s own scheduling works well for one message at a time and is worth using for that. Bots add queues and approval but need admin rights in your channel and hold your drafts on their side. The scheduler aims to add the queue and the approval step while keeping posting tied to your account.
What works today
The scheduler is not available yet. The TelegramBuddy desktop app already works with your channels in the other direction: you can export a chat to a readable HTML page or JSON — useful as a backup of what your channel has published — or save the text of selected messages to a file. The guide to exporting Telegram chat history walks through it.
Get early access
If your channel runs on reminders and a drafts chat, join the waitlist below. We will let you know when the post scheduler is ready to try.