Questions admins ask before adding a bot.

Adding the bot as admin is the setup. Stats, levels, and achievements start accruing from the first message. Everything else — schedules, the public page, moderation rules, plans — is fine-tuned later in the admin Mini App, and every setting autosaves.

Yes. Activity is tracked across all topics, and automated posts like the weekly highlights go into your most active topic — so a closed General topic never blocks them.

Yes — eight optional mini-games: a daily quiz (/quiz) posted as native polls at the hour you pick, a word race (/wordrace), a word hunt (/wordhunt), fast type (/fasttype), a flag quiz (/flagquiz), guess-the-stat rounds built from your group’s own numbers (/guessstat), a collaborative counting chain, and hangman (/hangman, Pro). Everything is off by default with one toggle per game in the Mini App → Settings, and game points stay separate from XP so your leaderboard stays honest.

No — Telegram doesn’t let bots read a group’s past history. Limzo starts measuring the moment it joins; in an active group the page fills up within days.

Yes. The impersonator guard — on by default on every plan — checks every join and rename for names mimicking your admins or Limzo itself. Admins get a private alert with one-tap Ban / Looks-fine buttons, and Pro and Community groups can auto-mute or auto-ban clear impersonators.

Yes — optional newcomer verification: new members are muted until they tap a button proving they're human, and anyone who doesn't verify within a few minutes is removed (rejoining restarts the check). Off by default — enable it in the Mini App under Moderate. Available on every plan. In a channel's discussion group it applies to everyone who joins; people who only comment on channel posts never join, so moderation covers their comments instead.

That’s what allowlists are for: add your own domains and usernames as allowed, mark trusted members (3 on Free, 300 on paid plans), and posts auto-forwarded from your linked channel always pass. Limzo even seeds the allowlist from your group’s description on install, and if a rule ever catches the wrong thing, admin alerts have a one-tap undo.

Not with a bot — Limzo included. Blocking outbound forwarding is a Telegram setting, not a bot feature: open the group and use Edit → Group Type → Saving content. It exists in private groups and channels only, only the owner can change it, and it doesn’t stop a screenshot or someone retyping your text. The opposite direction is what Limzo does handle — forwards and story shares arriving in your group: one control, four levels, free on every plan.

Limzo posts and replies in your group's language — currently English, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Turkish, Persian, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, Amharic, and Malay, with more on the way. It auto-detects the language from what members actually chat in, and admins can pin a specific language in the Mini App settings. Everything Limzo says in the group follows it — highlights, level-ups, greetings, weekly reports and /commands — while private messages to admins, like report previews and moderation alerts, follow each admin's own Telegram language — and the admin Mini App interface switches to it too. The bot's Telegram profile and command menu are already localized in 30 languages, and limzo.com itself is fully mirrored in Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Turkish, Persian, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, Amharic, and Malay at /ru/, /es/, /id/, /pt/, /tr/, /fa/, /it/, /ar/, /hi/, /vi/, /am/, and /ms/ addresses — public stats pages, the group directory, every guide, tool, and comparison page, this FAQ included — linked right from each page.

Yes. From /me, any member opens their full Limzo profile: level, global rank, day streak, achievements, and stats across every group they share with Limzo. One tap then posts a clean profile card to their Telegram Story. It stays positive-only, showing their wins and never anything negative.

XP comes from karma — helpful replies, reactions earned, thanks received, conversations started — not raw message volume, so it can’t be farmed by spamming. Six badge tiers run from 🥚 Newcomer to 👑 Legend. Limzo congratulates members in chat when they reach a new tier; you can switch announcements off.

Nine collectible one-time unlocks — 💯 Century, 🌙 Night Owl, 🔥 Devoted (a 30-day streak), and more. Earned once, kept forever, shown on the public page and in /me, with new unlocks celebrated in the weekly highlights.

A cosmetic emoji members can buy with Telegram Stars via /flair. It shows next to their name on the leaderboard and in /me — purely visual, zero effect on rankings.

Pro and Community groups can rename all six tiers in the Mini App — make Legend “Grandmaster” or anything that fits your community. Free groups use the defaults.

Three things, all optional: one weekly highlights recap, short level-up congratulations, and a brief welcome for new members (batched and rate-limited, so joins never flood the chat). A fourth is off by default: switch on milestone cheers and Limzo posts a one-off congratulation when the whole group passes a round total like 10k or 25k messages. Moderation replies — a warning under a dangerous link, a /warn notice, or the short self-deleting /report confirmation — only appear in response to a specific message and follow their own switches. No install announcement, no daily spam — every auto-post has a switch in the Mini App.

Yes. Turn on the optional join/leave cleanup and Limzo auto-deletes Telegram’s join and leave service messages seconds after they appear — batched, so even a join flood stays quiet. Off by default, free on every plan, and it only touches service messages, never members’ real messages.

Yes. Limzo counts members it has tracked whose Telegram account was since deleted — they still inflate your member list. Your weekly admin report DM shows how many are left, and a one-tap 🧹 button removes them — free on every plan. Pro and Community groups can also switch on an automatic recurring clean-up that removes them quietly and tallies the removals in the weekly report. Telegram doesn’t let bots read the full member list, so the count covers members Limzo has seen.

Yes — the alive-but-silent counterpart to ghost cleanup. Limzo counts members who haven’t posted for a window you choose (2, 4, 8 or 12 weeks) and shows it in the weekly admin report DM with a one-tap remove button — free on every plan. Pro and Community groups can turn on an automatic recurring sweep, optionally posting a heads-up in the group a day before so quiet members can speak up to stay. Removed members are kicked, not banned — they can rejoin anytime — and admins and trusted members are never touched.

A private DM to admins with a link to your full weekly report — growth vs last week, top members, peak hours, and the 13-week engagement trend. Only people with the link can open it, so you can forward it to a co-admin. It’s never posted to the group.

Pro groups pick the day, hour, and sections — awards, top members, time champions, insights, achievements, quote of the week. Free groups get it automatically at their most active time, with a small Limzo mention.

Your group’s live page at limzo.com/s/yourgroup: leaderboards with badges and flair, levels, achievements, karma, activity charts, quotes, and more. Every panel has a share button that posts straight into Telegram. See a live example →

Free pages are public with a 7-day view and Limzo branding. Pro and Community can set the page to public, unlisted, or fully private, and unlock 30-day and all-time views. Private Telegram groups get extra protection on any plan: their page never shows verbatim message content — quotes and previews stay inside the chat.

Quotes can be disabled entirely, visibility is admin-controlled on paid plans, and stored data can be deleted at any time. The page shows aggregated community stats — it’s not a message archive.

Yes — every public group page is also available as read-only JSON. Add .json to any profile URL, like limzo.com/s/yourgroup.json (no key, CORS-enabled): you get the same aggregate data as the page — messages, active members, the daily trend, the member leaderboard, mood, and reactions — with an optional ?range=7d|30d|all. It’s built for dashboards, bots, and AI agents. limzo.com/llms.txt documents the full response shape, and /api/public/global-stats returns network-wide totals. Full developer docs live at limzo.com/docs, including an OpenAPI spec.

Mostly aggregated counters — messages per member per day, active hours, replies, reactions, emojis, karma. Detailed message metadata is kept only for a plan-based retention window, and optional quote candidates can be switched off.

Yes. One confirmation in the Mini App permanently deletes everything Limzo stored for your group and disables the public page. Removing the bot itself takes one tap in Telegram.

Up to 10,000 tracked messages/month, the public page with a 7-day view, the full game layer (levels, badges, achievements, awards, karma), weekly highlights + the private admin report (with a small Limzo mention), smart anti-spam moderation with newcomer verification, an impersonator guard, a link safety scan, member warnings, a language lock, and the cross-group network shield, and member commands like /me, /top, /stats.

$9/month, paid as 600 Telegram Stars every 30 days. Up to 100,000 tracked messages/month, 30-day + all-time views, 90-day detailed history with 1-year trends, no Limzo branding, custom badge titles, custom highlight schedule and sections, the word cloud, page visibility controls, custom public title & description, and Pro commands (/quote, /champions, /awards, /insights).

$25/month, paid as 1,650 Telegram Stars every 30 days. Everything in Pro, plus up to 1,000,000 tracked messages/month, 1-year detailed history with 2-year trends, and priority support. Self-serve in the admin Mini App.

Paid plans are Telegram Stars subscriptions bought inside the admin Mini App — they renew every 30 days and can be cancelled anytime; the plan simply runs out its paid period. Pro also has a yearly option: 6,000 Stars once for 12 months (two months free) — a one-time payment with no auto-renewal; Limzo reminds you before it ends. Have a promo code? Redeem it on the same upgrade screen.

Stars work even where international cards don’t: a friend anywhere can gift you Stars through Telegram’s official gifting flow, Fragment — Telegram’s marketplace — sells Stars for TON, and many countries have local top-up services that deliver Stars to your @username. Every source lands in the same balance and pays for the upgrade identically. The full walkthrough: how to get Telegram Stars. Still stuck? Email [email protected].

Quiet hours is a Pro and Community feature. Pick a daily start and end time and Limzo closes the group between them, using the group’s own timezone from Settings, and it can tell members when the group reopens. The schedule is re-checked every few minutes, so changes apply quickly. If Limzo ever loses the permission it needs to reopen the group, connected admins are alerted immediately and Limzo keeps retrying.

Keyword alerts is a Pro and Community feature. Watch up to 10 words or short phrases — a product name, a topic, a recurring scam pitch — and Limzo sends connected admins a digest of the matches instead of pinging you for every message, so a busy group never floods your DMs.

Limzo watches for exactly that. When a member edits an earlier message and replaces its photo or file, the media swap guard silently DMs connected admins for review. It is a known extortion trick: the original passes moderation, and reportable content is swapped in later, long after admins approved it. The guard runs on every plan and is on by default.