What Routify does

Routify is a Telegram bot that moves messages between Telegram chats. A source is any chat your Telegram account can read — a channel, a group, a topic in a forum group, a private chat with a person or with another bot, public or private. A destination is a channel, a group, a topic or a private chat. Between them every message passes a pipeline you control: filters, text replacements, translation, AI processing, your own message template, a watermark, a delivery schedule or a moderation queue.

The difference from a bot that has to be added to every source chat: Routify reads sources through your connected Telegram account. You sign in once with your phone number, and the bot sees the chats you see — including private groups and channels where a bot can never be added.

Besides forwarding, Routify builds AI digests: a scheduled summary of several sources in one message. See Digests.

Besides messages from sources a destination chat can carry your own: you write them by hand in the mini app and send them at once or put them in the schedule — see Post publishing.

How it works

1. You connect an account. Phone number, confirmation code, the two-factor password if you have one — see Connecting an account. Several accounts can be connected.
2. You pick a destination — the chat where the messages should go — and add sources to it: chats of a connected account, or a link to a public chat. See Destinations and Adding a source.
3. A new message appears in a source chat, and the account receives it as you would. The message passes the pipeline of the destination and of the source: filters, replacements, translation, AI prompts, the template, the watermark.
4. The message is delivered — as a copy or as a native forward, by @RoutifyBot or from your account, right away, inside an allowed time window, or into a moderation queue where you approve it first. See Delivery modes.
5. Edits and deletions follow. When the source message is edited or deleted, the delivered copy can be edited or deleted too — see Syncing edits and deletions.
6. Everything pending is in one place — the Schedule and queue section: a calendar and a list where source messages and your own posts wait their turn.

Where the controls are

Everything is managed in the mini app: it opens from the bot's menu and is the control panel for accounts, destination chats, sources, settings, history and plans. The chat with the bot itself is only for /start, moderation cards and service messages. See The mini app.

What you need

• A Telegram account whose chats you want to read. It stays yours: Routify reads messages only in the chats you pick as sources, and sends from the account only when you choose delivery from it.
• For delivery by the bot into a channel or a group: administrator rights there, so that you can add @RoutifyBot as an administrator.
• Nothing else. Paid plans raise the limits and unlock the pipeline sections marked in this documentation. See Plans.

Where to go next

• Getting started — the first forward in a few minutes.
• Connecting an account — phone, code, two-factor password.
• Delivery modes — copy or forward, bot or account.
• Plans — what is free and what is paid.

Questions that are not answered here go to the support group @madbots_talk. Updates are announced in @madbots.