🎨 Telegram App Icon Competition

Prize fund: $10,000
Deadline: 23:59 on October 19th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 26th, 2023

Telegram is hosting a competition for artists to draw new icons for Telegram's Android and iOS apps. The best icons may be later offered to users in addition to the default sets currently presented in both apps.

The Task

Create at least 1 icon and adapt it for both Android and iOS. Submissions featuring more than 1 icon are accepted providing that each of the icon is thematically different.

Each of your app icons must be based on the core form of the Telegram logo. You are free to incorporate any scenes or characters, except copyrighted materials.

Using Telegram's official sticker and emoji packs is allowed for references (you can adapt characters to create icons based on them). The use of generative AI is strictly prohibited.

App Icon Guidelines

Android
• Follows the Android UI Guidelines
• Contains a PNG of 432x432px for each icon (you must also provide the following resolutions: 324х324px, 216х216px, 162х162px and 108х108px – each is used for different screen pixel densities). The icon must contain separate background and foreground layers
• Includes source files

P.S. For further references, clipping mask samples (for non-direct versions of the app we apply the masks from the archive), other icon resolutions and the suggested structure check the provided archive below this message.

iOS
• Follows the Apple Design Guidelines
• Contains a non-transparent PNG of 1024x1024px for each icon (make sure it looks correct when resized to 270x270px, 180x180px or 120x120px, otherwise provide separate images for each resolution)
• Includes source files

Submissions and Evaluation

@ContestBot will start accepting submissions closer to the deadline. The prize fund will be distributed among the best contributors. When evaluating submissions we will prioritize the quality of each artwork, its uniqueness, and its compliance with the “App Icon Guidelines” – your contribution must be submitted in a ”ready to use“ format requiring zero adaptions or tweaks on our side.

🏆 Android Design Contest: Results

We are pleased to announce the results of the Android Design Contest. The judges thoroughly reviewed each of the 89 submissions.

The contestants brought several solid concepts and intriguing ideas to life – though even the top entries can’t be utilized without further polishing and refinements. Despite that, we are happy to award Stout Pony, Eager Jackal, Bold Crab and Happy Squid with 🥇 1st PLACE. These entries carefully considered multiple aspects in their designs and the judges were unanimous in their selection.

Meet the winners!

1st PLACE – $2,500
🥇 Stout Pony
🥇 Eager Jackal
🥇 Bold Crab
🥇 Happy Squid

2nd PLACE – $1,500
🥈 Mighty Unicorn
🥈 Cute Lemur
🥈 Swift Shark
🥈 Keen Pony
🥈 Mad Spider

3rd PLACE – $750
🥉 Posh Hamster
🥉 Perfect Dodo
🥉 Busy Phoenix
🥉 Mellow Llama
🥉 Hardy Wolf
🥉 Huge Puffin
🥉 Neat Kangaroo
🥉 Nice Pony
🥉 Mighty Falcon
🥉 Holy Eagle
🥉 Fancy Unicorn
🥉 Cool Lion
🥉 Tanned Cat
🥉 Nimble Sheep
🥉 Humble Cockroach
🥉 Able Bear
🥉 Holy Gecko

Congratulations to the winners and a happy Friday to you all!

🏆 App Icon Competition: Results

We were delighted to see so many interesting concepts and new takes on the Telegram icon – with a total of 252 submissions.

For this competition, we will be distributing the prize fund among all contributors who submitted at least one icon that we accepted. The award per entry is based on its overall evaluation.

While many of the submissions still require aesthetic changes, we have decided to further increase the total prize fund by an additional $2,600. This ensures as many contestants as possible will receive recognition.

Meet the winners!

$1,000
Sharp Unicorn

$600
Funky Hedgehog
Agile Raven

$400
Rich Cockroach
Night Heron
Brave Hawk
Fancy Otter
Sunny Dragon
Calm Dolphin
Sweet Raccoon
Brave Mink
Perfect Hawk
Mad Spider

$200
Fluffy Cow
Cool Lion
Tactful Butterfly
Agile Goat
Caring Phoenix
Funny Python
Mellow Beaver
Noble Ant
Gifted Toad
Agile Quokka
Happy Moth
Strict Ant
Cute Otter
Gifted Cat
Funny Meerkat
Slim Bee
Cute Lemur
Mad Mink
Jolly Elk
Sturdy Cock
Daring Ladybird
Sunny Moth
Hardy Bear
Suave Spider
Funky Chicken
Dashing Duck
Stylish Turtle
Noble Toad

$100
Modest Gecko
Desert Crab
Magic Rabbit
Mindful Wasp
Shiny Puffin
Merry Phoenix
Suave Kangaroo
Stylish Kangaroo

🏆Telegram Mini App Contest: Results

It was our pleasure to test all the Mini Apps that everyone submitted. The judges spent many hours using the apps and studying their source code – and they were happy to discover that some of them utilize the Telegram Mini App Platform’s features to great effect.

This contest introduced tons of innovative ideas – and both developers and users will greatly benefit from their diversity. We decided to increase the prize fund by another $16,250 to properly reward all the efforts that went into this content. Without further ado, meet the winners!

1st PLACE – $1,500
🥇Hip Hyena delivered Paint Bot, letting users create collaborative boards inside group chats – and able to show who is drawing in real time.
(Extra rewards:🥈x3 for Friends On Map + Convene + Openly) +$3,000

🥇Fierce Frog for Chess Now – a multiplayer chess game.

🥇Hairy Sloth’s StickerWiz allows you to generate and edit stickers to quickly share them – all from the chat.

🥇Tidy Walrus for Naval Clash – a classic battleship game right in your chat.

🥇Eager Snail for Favorite Stickers Bot – a huge catalog of Telegram Stickers with search, user ratings, rich previews and sharing options.

🥇Smart Starfish introduced a slick, feature-rich text editor for taking notes and managing to-do lists. Meet Notepher.

🥇 Keen Goat brought the classic card game UNO to Telegram – with online matchmaking and user stats.

🥇Stone Parrot for telebook – the best storefront in this competition. Book a fictional hotel for a fantastic vacation.

🥇Ace Boar for their Telegram Onboarding Kit – an amazing set of tools showcasing the power of Mini Apps.

🥇Slim Elk for their @Call app that lets you manage a call calendar from inside Telegram chats. Thanks to deep integration, the app provides a satisfying and convenient way to share your call calendar and book calls.

🥇Small Dragon implemented TeleOTP – a simple and snappy OTP Generator right inside your Telegram app.

🥇Rich Pony submitted MedSync to show everyone the future of healthcare appointments.

2nd PLACE – $1,000
🥈Quiet Cock for InstaQuiz. Challenge your friends and test your knowledge in multiplayer quiz games.

🥈Ace Scorpion built Lowkey Brokey – a minimalist app for tracking your expenses.

🥈Wise Kiwi introduced Rate Mate – an app to rate and review groups or channels.

🥈Smart Mantis for their Cinema app. A storefront concept for browsing and booking movie tickets.

🥈Bright Cock for Venue Explorer, where you can browse and book imaginary accommodation.

🥈Bright Deer made an Office Gym Bot that reminds you to keep up your healthy habits.

🥈Mindful Swan built DPXWallet, a complete crypto-wallet concept.
(extra reward:🥈x1 for SimpList – a productivity app to track all your tasks) +$1,000.

🥈Stone Mink for their Movie Matcher – swipe for something to watch in a unique dating-app format.

🥈Sleek Shrimp created MemoCard – so you can build, study and share flashcards all within Telegram.

🥈Agile Lizard has you covered for Christmas with Secret Santa Party – set up a Secret Santa for your friends.

🥈Cool Wolf implemented a neat dating app At first sight!.

🥈Fit Falcon has a literal Mini App Store for Telegram Mini Apps.

🥈Hardy Turkey cooked up Laurel Cafe – fresh fictional food right at your fingertips.

🥈Stout Antelope for their Tips app, a favorite of bartenders and hair stylists everywhere.

🥈Neat Quokka created Community Board – browse and post ads in your local area.

🏆Telegram ML Competition: Results

We thank all the participants of the Telegram ML Competition for their patience as the judges performed additional evaluations. We are now ready to announce the final results.

For the final scoring, we tested all submissions on code snippets from public Telegram chats. Overall, only two submissions scored more than a baseline solution, which returns TGLANG_LANGUAGE_OTHER for all inputs. Even these submissions only correctly recognized the language for 35.5% and 9.4% of actual code samples respectively. Therefore, there is no submission that qualified for 1st place in this competition. For details, each contestant can refer to the dedicated comment we've posted for each submission.

2nd PLACE – $4,000
🥈Sturdy Kangaroo 
🥈Giant Turkey
🥈Dashing Gull, penalties:
– preloading penalty (–$100)
🥈Small Dolphin, penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$200)

3rd PLACE – $2,000
🥉Able Quokka 
🥉Stylish Puffin  
🥉Witty Snail 
🥉Mindful Kitten 
🥉Merry Pony 
🥉Nice Beaver, penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$200)
🥉Groovy Cow, penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$200)

4th PLACE – $1,000
🎖️ Gifted Lemur 
🎖️ Swift Skunk 
🎖️ Sleek Pony 
🎖️ Eager Piranha 
🎖️ Quiet Scorpion 
🎖️ Nimble Monkey 
🎖️ Large Monkey 
🎖️ Gifted Piranha 
🎖️ Grim Ibex 
🎖️ Brave Beetle 
🎖️ Funky Horse, penalties:
– rebuilding with tweaks penalty (–$300)

We invite all participants of this competition to the 2nd round – even those who did not earn a prize in this round. Further details will be announced this week.

🏆 Telegram ML Competition, Round 2

Prize fund: $40,000 – from which the 1st place winner will receive $15,000 if any submissions qualify for 1st place
Deadline: 23:59 on November 20th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: only contestants from Round 1 are eligible
Results: December 4th, 2023

In the Round 2 of this competition, contestants will work on a shared library that can be used to identify programming and markup languages in code snippets.

The Task: implement a shared library that detects the programming or markup language of a code snippet. You can use any publicly available data and the provided dataset to train your solution.

Details: https://contest.com/docs/ML-Competition-2023-r2.

@ContestBot will begin accepting submissions at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.

🏆 Telegram Contests Update

Since the launch of contest.com in 2019, we've held contests for developers, designers and artists with a total prize fund of over $2,500,000 – and more contests are on the way.

Why do this? It's a way for people to learn and get better at what they do. Winning in our contests is also the only way of joining the Telegram Team. Some winners are offered paid projects, and a few have even become full team members.

Coming later this year: A contest for JS developers. It's your chance to be part of something big for our 800M+ users. Stay tuned!