One card, edited in place
Assign something and the bot posts a single card: what has to be done, who is on it, when it is due. Every later change edits that card. Ten status updates do not turn into ten messages.
Use case · task management in Telegram
A task management bot that works inside the chat, not next to it
Most task bots turn a work group into a notification feed: a message when the task is created, another when someone opens it, a third when the status changes. DeloPulse keeps one card per task and edits it in place. Assignees, statuses and the deadline stay on that card, and everything that would annoy the group goes to direct messages instead.
Free, no sign-up. Works in group chats and in one-to-one assignments.
How a task lives in the chat
The same rules apply in a group, in direct messages and in the Mini App, so a task never means two different things in two places.
A status per assignee, not per task
Three people on one task means three statuses. Malika is done, Rustam is in progress, Timur is waiting for the author to accept his work. The card shows 1 / 3, and nobody has to ask in the chat who is holding it up.
Deadlines that can differ per person
One deadline for the whole task, or a separate one for each assignee when the work is sequential. Overdue is always measured against the deadline that applies to that particular person, so nobody is marked late for someone else’s delay.
Reminders go to DMs, the group hears one thing
24 hours, 3 hours and 1 hour before the deadline the bot writes privately, and only to the people who have not reported yet. Before the deadline the group gets nothing. After it passes, one group message names who missed it, and it disappears when the task is closed.
The task keeps its own context
Checklist items, comments and up to ten attached files belong to the card. A question about the report is answered on the report, not forty messages down the chat.
What the Bot API allows, and what no bot can do
Four Telegram rules shape every task bot you will try. Vendors rarely mention them; they explain most of the surprises.
A bot cannot write first
Until a person has opened a chat with the bot at least once, no direct message can reach them. DeloPulse says so on the card instead of pretending the reminder was delivered: you can see exactly whose DMs are not connected yet. One tap fixes it.
There is no member list
The official API does not hand a bot the roster of a group, and reading it any other way means a userbot account, which is against the rules. A person the bot has not met yet is held as a pending assignment on their @username and attached to them the moment they show up.
Deleting has a 48-hour window
A bot may remove only its own messages, only if the group granted the permission, and only for two days. Service messages are cleaned up inside that window. Outside it, DeloPulse stops trying rather than filling the log with errors.
Group traffic is capped
Telegram allows a bot roughly twenty messages a minute into one chat. A bot that announces every click runs into that ceiling on a busy day. One card per task, edited in place, does not.
See also: Assign tasks to employees · Track employee tasks · Task management for small teams · Team accountability · the guide to tracking assignments · the comparison.
Where it fits and where it does not
A good fit when
- work is handed out in a Telegram group and has to come back as a report;
- a task has several assignees and you need to see which of them is late;
- the team will not install another app, and you would rather not ask;
- the same duties repeat every week and should appear on their own.
Look elsewhere if
- you need a Kanban board, a Gantt chart, sprints or time tracking;
- you want a personal to-do list: this is built for work between people, not for yourself;
- your team does not use Telegram for work.
Questions people actually ask
Does everyone need to install something?
No. Telegram is the entire interface. The Mini App opens inside Telegram for people who want lists, a deadline calendar or history, but a task can be created and closed with buttons in the chat.
What if an assignee never opened a chat with the bot?
They keep getting mentions in the group, and the card marks them as unreachable for direct messages. Telegram does not let bots write first, so this is a limit of the platform rather than a setting. Opening the bot once is enough.
Can one task have several assignees?
Yes, and that is the case it was built for. Each assignee has a status of their own and reports separately. The task closes when the last of them has reported.
What does it cost?
Nothing. There are no seats, no task limits and no paid tier hiding the reminders, the recurring tasks or the analytics.
Two minutes to try
Put your next assignment on a card
Add DeloPulse to a work group, create one task with a deadline for tomorrow and watch what the assignee gets in the evening.
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