What to pick for assignments in a Telegram group: DeloPulse or the alternatives

Summary table

Key capabilities for controlling group assignments. “Partial” is explained in the note below the table.

What “partial” means here. Bitrix24 has co-assignees and work acceptance, but the task status is shared, and creating tasks from Telegram requires third-party paid apps. In Trello, advanced checklist items can be assigned to people, but there is no shared per-person task status and the bot acts as a notifier. On the Pro plan, a UTasks task can have several assignees, and each marks completion on their own; a deadline reminder arrives 15 minutes before and at the due time, in the group chat and in the chat with the bot; Pro has comments but no checklists. UTasks notifies the chat about overdue tasks, but not with a single removable message. OK, Bob! has team efficiency reports in its web version on the Business plan. Weeek and Trello create tasks from a personal bot or the web interface, not from the group chat. Data from the products' public documentation as of 2026-09-26.

Head to head

Each of these products does something well. For every pair below we say which kind of team it suits.

DeloPulse or OK, Bob!

OK, Bob! is a mature Russian-language bot with natural-language input, checklists and recurring tasks. Its model is a shared task status: one person marks the task done. In DeloPulse it works the other way: each assignee has their own status, the group sees per-person progress, and pre-deadline reminders go to DMs only.

OK, Bob! fits better if

• tasks are almost always for one person;
• voice input matters to you.

DeloPulse fits better if

• one assignment is done by several people and you need to see who reported;
• the chat must stay clean: one card, DM reminders;
• you want result review and a discipline rating at no cost.

DeloPulse or UTasks

UTasks is a well-known Mini App task manager. It adds a project to any chat and has personal lists and a simple interface. Task deadlines and multiple assignees with a separate completion mark for each require its paid Pro plan. DeloPulse keeps deadlines, the reminder ladder, personal statuses and analytics in the free version, because assignment control doesn't work without deadlines.

UTasks fits better if

• you need a light shared to-do list without deadline control;
• you want personal to-do lists next to team projects in one app.

DeloPulse fits better if

• assignments have deadlines and someone is personally responsible;
• you need result review and a discipline rating;
• you'd rather not pay for basics: everything here is free.

DeloPulse or iTasks

iTasks is the “heaviest” of the Telegram bots: kanban, four-level subtasks, time tracking, automations, a helpdesk. That makes it close to a project system inside Telegram. DeloPulse is deliberately simpler. It follows a group assignment from the moment it is given until everyone has reported, and a team learns it in minutes.

iTasks fits better if

• you need kanban, time tracking and multi-level subtasks;
• the team is ready to pay (~$9.99/mo) and learn the tool.

DeloPulse fits better if

• you need assignment control, not a project suite;
• each of several assignees must report individually;
• the tool must work in the group right away, for free.

DeloPulse or Bitrix24

Bitrix24 is a large business platform: CRM, documents, a portal and tasks with co-assignees and work acceptance. It is a strong choice when a company is ready to live in a separate system. DeloPulse solves the same execution-control job where the team already talks, in Telegram. There is no portal to set up or account to create, and each assignee reports individually right on the card in the chat.

Bitrix24 fits better if

• you need CRM, document flow and a corporate portal in one place;
• the company is ready for rollout, training and a subscription;
• tasks are part of bigger business processes, not chat assignments.

DeloPulse fits better if

• the team lives in Telegram and doesn't want another system;
• you need each assignee's personal status right in the chat;
• you want to start in a minute and pay nothing per seat.

DeloPulse or Weeek / Kaiten

Weeek and Kaiten are convenient trackers with boards, documents and Telegram bots for notifications and quick “task for myself” capture. The main work happens in their web interfaces. In DeloPulse the group itself is the workspace. Tasks are created and closed in the chat, and the web part (the Mini App) opens inside Telegram when you need the overview, the calendar or the analytics.

Weeek / Kaiten fit better if

• you need boards, sprints and a project structure;
• the team is fine working in a separate web interface.

DeloPulse fits better if

• assignments are born and discussed in the Telegram chat;
• you need “who of the assignees is done” without context switching;
• the team has outgrown a free plan and you don't want per-seat pricing.

DeloPulse or Trello / Todoist

Trello is the reference kanban board, and its Telegram bot handles notifications and card creation decently. Todoist is where many people keep their personal lists. Both are built around a board or a personal list. DeloPulse is built around the group: an assignment with several accountable people, per-person progress on the card, a single public overdue escalation and a per-period discipline rating.

Trello / Todoist fit better if

• you need a visual project board or a personal planner;
• team execution control is not the main job.

DeloPulse fits better if

• the main job is controlling group assignments;
• “done” must be confirmed by each assignee individually;
• reminders should reach each person privately, with a single overdue message for the group.

Common questions when choosing