Markdown to Telegram Converter
Paste Markdown — or an AI answer — and get Telegram-friendly text for messages and channels. Converts as you type.
How to Use
- Paste standard Markdown into the input box — output updates live as you type
- Review the converted text on the right
- Click Copy and paste it into any Telegram chat, group, or channel
- Send — bold, italic, and code render the way Telegram expects
How Telegram Handles Formatting
Telegram's in-app formatting is close to Markdown but not identical. Bold uses **text**, italic uses __text__, and inline code plus triple-backtick code blocks (with an optional language) work much like you would expect. What regular messages do not render is the rest of the Markdown toolbox: [text](url)links show up as raw brackets, heading hashes stay hashes, and tables come through as a jumble of pipes. This converter keeps the styles Telegram understands and rewrites everything else — headings become bold lines, links become "text (url)", and tables are laid out as aligned monospace blocks.
Note for bot developers: MarkdownV2 is different
This tool targets normal message formatting— what you get when you paste text into the Telegram app and send it. The Bot API's MarkdownV2 parse mode is a separate, stricter dialect that requires escaping characters like . ! - ( ) # with backslashes anywhere they appear. If you are sending messages through a bot with parse_mode=MarkdownV2, you will need to apply that escaping on top of this output (or use HTML parse mode instead).
Posting AI answers to Telegram
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all answer in Markdown. Paste an answer straight into a Telegram channel and your subscribers see hashes, brackets, and broken tables. Convert it here first and the post arrives clean and readable. The conversion runs entirely in your browser, so your drafts are never uploaded anywhere.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which Telegram formatting does this target?
The output matches what the Telegram apps render when you use formatting in regular messages. For Bot API MarkdownV2, additional character escaping is required — see the notes on the page.
Why are my links converted to plain text?
Regular Telegram messages do not render [text](url) syntax. The converter outputs "text (url)" so nothing is lost; you can re-link manually with Telegram’s formatting menu if needed.