A message vanished before you could read it, and all you’re left with is the question: “What did it say?” Flashback is a Telegram bot that ends the guessing: when the other person deletes or edits a message in a private chat you chose, it sends you the original and keeps an encrypted archive. Past deletions are gone: it works only from the moment you connect it, and messages deleted before that cannot be recovered.
Open in TelegramTelegram opens. No Premium needed, and the bot will see only the private chats you choose.
Sometimes you just want to know instead of guessing. Tap “Open in Telegram” and “Start”: the bot shows a step-by-step guide with a video.
Not necessarily “toxic” ones, just the ones you care about. Chat Automation is a feature of Telegram itself: in it you choose the private chats the bot will see.
When the other person deletes or edits a message, the bot sends you the saved text or media. No guessing, no drama, just facts.
They wrote it and deleted it a minute later, before you could read it. Flashback didn’t miss it: the original text or media, in the bot’s card and in the archive inside Telegram.
The bot’s card for a deleted message. The contact sent it at 14:02 and deleted it at 14:05; the card quotes the original text and has a button that opens it in the archive.
Message deleted · Contact
Sorry, I can’t make it tomorrow. Shall we meet next week?
First it said one thing, then another. A small difference, but it’s the one that won’t let you go. The old and the new version side by side, with the changed words highlighted.
The bot’s card for an edited message. The contact changed “Thursday at 2 pm” to “Friday at 3 pm”; the card strikes through the removed words and highlights the added ones.
Message edited · Contact
The meeting is onThursdayFriday at23 pm
Cards arrive in the chat, and the whole saved history lives in the Mini App: a feed of events, conversations in view-only mode and search.
What the bot saved stays in the archive for 7, 30 or 60 days, then is deleted automatically.
Finds a word in texts, captions and file names across the whole archive. No AI: plain text matching.
Every saved version of an edited message, newest first, with the changed words highlighted.
The archive is stored encrypted. This is not end-to-end encryption, and no AI reads your chats.
The archive is encrypted on the server. It is not end-to-end encryption.
The bot sees only the private chats you chose yourself.
You can delete all your data with the /delete_my_data command.
The bot never asks for your login code or password: you connect it in Telegram itself.
Connect Flashback before something important gets erased. The bot walks you through connecting step by step, and you can disconnect it at any time.
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