TGScope

Free

The TGScope homepage and the channel-creation page opened on 18 Oct 2026 did not print a price, a plan, a quota, or a checkout. The catalog and the date tool were usable in the browser without an account on those pages. That is the access this listing can describe. It is not a promise that every future feature stays free, and it is not a statement that Telegram itself is free of rules. There is no seat fee to quote and no API price on the pages that loaded. Do not borrow a price from another Telegram product. If the site later adds a paid export or a login, the citation has to be that page and its date. The channel total, 3,146,268, is a count the homepage rendered. It is not a billable unit.

TGScope's homepage is a catalog of Telegram channels with language and category filters. The total rendered on 18 Oct 2026 was 3,146,268 channels. The site also publishes a channel-creation tool. Its explanation says Telegram issued IDs in order for a time and later drew each new ID from a block, moving to a fresh block every few months. The tool maps those blocks from 247,850 channels whose posts could be dated. The block an ID falls into is the period the channel was created in. The page says channels created since mid-2021 usually fall in a span of two to eight months, and that the span from November 2017 to June 2021 is wider. IDs after September 2025 are not mapped yet. It warns that a channel older than its present name may have been renamed.

• 3,146,268 channels. The homepage rendered that total on 18 Oct 2026. It will change. Cite the day you read it.
• A period, not a day. The date tool maps ID blocks from 247,850 channels. Since mid-2021 the span is usually two to eight months.
• Telegram News example. The page itself places Telegram News between September 2015 and January 2017. IDs after September 2025 are not mapped.

1. 1

   Open tgscope.io and read the channel total on the day you look. Record that date next to the number.

2. 2

   For a creation estimate, paste a public username, a t.me link, or a numeric ID into the date tool.

3. 3

   Write the period the page returns. Do not turn it into a single day.

4. 4

   If the ID is after September 2025, say the page does not map it yet.

• A briefing needs the size of the public catalog. Open tgscope.io and write the total that is on screen, with the date. On 18 Oct 2026 the homepage rendered 3,146,268 channels. That number is a snapshot of the site's index, not a census of Telegram, and it will move. Language and category filters are on the same page. This listing does not use them to single out a private community, and it does not describe how to collect posts.
• Someone asks for the day a public channel was created. Use the creation page and keep its wording. The answer is a period, mapped from 247,850 channels whose posts could be dated. Since mid-2021 the period is usually two to eight months. The page's example, Telegram News, sits between September 2015 and January 2017. A channel older than its current name may have been renamed. Record the period and the rename warning. Do not convert the range into a calendar day.
• An ID returns no period. The page says IDs after September 2025 are not mapped yet. Write that as a coverage gap. It is not evidence the channel is new, hidden, or suspicious. The November 2017 to June 2021 span is wider than the later blocks, so an older channel's period is coarser. Subscriber counts printed beside an example are the page's figures. This listing did not join the channel.

Hard cases

The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

Questions

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