you can do this (but it’s not worth it)

The Telegram messaging app just keeps growing. Now the service comes with a Premium subscription. You get all kinds of new features, but you have to pay for that. Still, we don’t think Telegram Premium is worth the price and here’s why.

Telegram Unveils Premium Plan

On the editors of iPhoned Telegram is the standard app for mutual messages. This alternative to WhatsApp is mainly known for its independence from large companies such as Facebook, Apple and Google. In addition, the app is stable and handles your data fairly well. Something we can’t always say about WhatsApp.

The popular messaging app has now released Telegram Premium. This is a subscription form that gives you extra functions for a fee. Telegram Premium costs 5.49 euros per month.

This is what you get with the Premium version of Telegram

If you take out a subscription to Telegram Premium, you get several functions. We admit: some options are quite useful, but most are unnecessary in our opinion.

There is a positive outlier: you can send files of no less than 4 GB. WhatsApp only allows you to go up to 2 GB files. In addition, you also download these files faster with Telegram. So Telegram Premium doubles a lot of limits: the amount of data, the number of chats, folders and stickers.

The ‘Advanced Chat Management’ feature sounds good, but the features that come under it (such as auto-hiding and archiving new chats) are what you’d expect from the standard version. We are excited about the speech-to-text feature. This allows you to automatically translate spoken messages into text with Telegram Premium.

Why we don’t subscribe to Telegram Premium

However, we are less excited about the exclusive stickers that Telegram Premium promises us. People with a Telegram Premium account can now also show the world that they pay for their chat app. They will then get a check mark next to their name or profile picture. We find that quite a redundant function.

All in all, we are all too happy to use Telegram. But we are not planning to take out a subscription for 5.50 euros per month. It’s probably useful for businesses that would like to verify the official information account or group chat. With the Premium account you polish your profile and you get that check mark after your name. That can provide more reliability.

The free version of Telegram is more than fine

Fortunately, the standard version also remains. In fact, according to Telegram, this new revenue model ensures that you can still use the app for free! Telegram also promises that the free version will continue to receive updates.

So you can just keep chatting, share stickers and send moving pictures via the free app. Do you spend half the day on the app? Maybe Telegram Premium is something for you, to support the makers. In any case, we will settle for the free version of Telegram, until Premium gets really good features.

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