Telegram check-in bot: a daily standup in Telegram and one report every evening

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If your team lives in Telegram, you can run a daily standup without a call or a group-chat roll call: a bot asks each person for a short update every morning, reminds anyone who has not answered, and gives you one page in the evening. Eodly does that in Telegram, and it also checks each update against the actual work in GitHub and Linear. Setup is one link. It is free for up to 5 people, with no card.

How a daily check-in works in Telegram with Eodly

  1. Get your team's link. On your Eodly dashboard, click Connect Telegram. You get one t.me link for your team.
  2. Share it with your team, in your group chat or anywhere else. Each person opens it and taps Start. The bot replies that they are connected to your team. That is the whole setup.
  3. Every morning at 9:00, the bot asks each person for a quick update in their private chat with it: what they finished or moved forward, anything blocking them, and what they are picking up next. The 9:00 follows each person's own time zone, which you set per person on the Team page. They answer with a normal message, any time that day.
  4. Anyone who has not answered gets one reminder, 45 minutes before your report time. You stop sending "any updates?" to the group.
  5. In the evening, your report lands in Telegram if you are on the team with your own Telegram account, and always on your dashboard and by email. You choose the time (7 PM by default).

Your team never creates an Eodly account and never opens a dashboard. A private chat with the bot is the whole interaction for them.

What the evening report shows

Eodly weighs each update against your systems of record, GitHub and Linear, and sorts the day into a few short sections:

  • What got done, each claim next to its merged pull request or moved ticket.
  • Working but quiet, people with activity in GitHub or Linear who did not check in. Their work still counts.
  • Silent, no check-in and no activity.
  • Needs a look, where an update says one thing and the work says another, shown side by side for you to judge.

Why not just ask in the group chat?

For a small team that answers reliably, a morning message in the group is fine. It breaks down in familiar ways: the same "any updates?" every evening, people reading it and not replying, answers scattered across the day, and private follow-ups to the people who stayed quiet. A bot takes the asking and the chasing off you, keeps everyone's update in one place, and only checking updates against the work tells you whether "almost done" moved.

Does the bot read our group?

No. Check-ins happen in each person's private chat with the bot. The bot is not added to your group and does not read it. There is no keystroke logging, screen capture or time tracking.

Telegram check-in bots compared

Few standup tools support Telegram at all. Our dated comparison lists the ones that do, with prices and free tiers checked on each vendor's own site: best daily check-in bots for Telegram.

Pricing

The Free plan covers up to 5 teammates, with Telegram, Slack and Discord all included, plus GitHub and Linear. The Team plan is $29 a month for up to 10 teammates. See pricing for every plan.

Questions people ask

Can part of my team check in from Slack or Discord instead? Yes. Each person checks in wherever they already work, and you still get one combined report.

Does it work for teams that do not write code? Yes. The check-ins, reminders and report work on their own. GitHub and Linear are optional and add the evidence behind each update for software teams.

What if someone joins later? Send them the same link. They tap Start and are on the team.

Start your team's Telegram check-ins

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