Telescope

A private lens for one chat

See the conversation you were too close to notice.

Drop a Telegram 1-to-1 or group chat. Get its rhythms, silences, private language, and the patterns that only appear when years are seen at once.

The gap that became a chapter

41 days

Longest silence · all time

41 days
last messagenext message

Illustrative conversation

The conversation looks different from here.

Seven pages from one fictional history—measured and interpreted the same way as your own report.

Opening your report

The only promise that matters

Local first. AI only when you ask.

Your numerical report stays on this device. AI insights are optional: the encrypted upload is deleted after processing, with a one-day expiry as backup.

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    You export the chat yourself

    Telegram Desktop → open the chat → ⋮ → Export chat history → JSON. Telegram makes you wait 24 hours the first time; that one's theirs, not ours.

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    The page reads it in memory

    Parsed and counted on the main thread of this tab. The raw conversation never crosses the network. When you're signed in, only the finished numerical analysis is saved.

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    Additional AI insights are opt-in

    Unlocking AI insights temporarily uploads the raw export to an encrypted private storage, then sends a sampled corpus to OpenAI. The raw export is deleted after processing; the saved report may retain the insights and exact quotes used as evidence.

  4. numerical report stays local · uploaded chat is deleted after AI processing

Get the folder

Telegram hands out your history if you ask nicely.

Export one chat as JSON, then bring the whole folder to Telescope.

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Export chat history

Clear history

In Telegram Desktop, open the conversation and choose Export chat history from the ⋮ menu.

First export? Telegram may make you wait 24 hours. That one’s on them.

Years of small talk.
Somebody should look at it.

no account · no upload · the numbers take about a second