# telegram-sms/telegram-sms

An SMS-forwarding Robot Running on Your Android Device.

Repository: https://github.com/telegram-sms/telegram-sms
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/telegram-sms
Homepage: https://telegram-sms.com
Language: Kotlin
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: android, telegram-bot, sms, phone, telegram
Last push: 2026-08-26T06:17:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2890, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 676, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1954, forks 206 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:58.885149+00:00)

## What it is
An Android app that runs a Telegram bot on your phone to forward SMS messages, missed/incoming call notifications, and battery status to Telegram. It supports remote control via chat commands or SMS, carbon-copy forwarding to other push services, and a self-hosted Telegram Bot API endpoint.

## Use cases
- forward SMS messages from my Android phone to Telegram
- get notified on Telegram when I miss a call on my other phone
- monitor my phone's battery status remotely via a bot
- send SMS replies remotely through a Telegram bot
- relay Android notifications to Telegram without a third-party server
- manage SMS on a spare phone left at home
- share one bot across multiple Android phones in a group chat

## When to choose
- you carry multiple phones and want SMS/call alerts from one of them in Telegram
- you want direct connection to Telegram's Bot API with no third-party relay service
- you need remote SMS sending and device control via chat commands
- you want to forward notifications to other push services like bark, gotify, or pushdeer

## When to avoid
- your device runs Android 5.0 or lower (use the telegram-sms-compat fork instead)
- you cannot reach api.telegram.org from your network
- you are unwilling to grant SMS, phone, call log, and notification access permissions
- you need iOS or desktop SMS forwarding

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: chatbot, webhook, workflow-automation
- domain: android-tools, messaging-platforms, privacy
- platform: -
- tags: sms-forwarding, telegram-bot, missed-call-alerts, battery-monitoring, remote-control, dual-sim, self-hosted-bot-api, notification, automation, android

## Member repositories
- telegram-sms/telegram-sms (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:58.885149+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:06:32.830604+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/telegram-sms/telegram-sms (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:58.885149+00:00, sha 9ce399cd0199)
  - homepage: https://telegram-sms.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:46:11.384191+00:00, sha 1b6c272d2e95)
  - site_page: https://telegram-sms.com/user-manual.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:46:11.386670+00:00, sha 9f54a1d1d441)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.