A stars gift is a small present you buy with Telegram Stars and drop into a chat. It appears as an animation in the conversation and stays attached to the recipient's profile, which is what separates it from an ordinary sticker or emoji reaction. The stars come out of your balance the moment you confirm, and the recipient gets both the item and its star value.
Two things it is not. It is not a transfer of spendable balance to a friend's wallet — that is a separate feature with its own flow. And it is not a subscription. A gift is a one-off purchase, so nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel later. If you want to give someone a month of Premium features, that is a different product with a different price.
The practical upshot: you need a star balance before you can send anything. Everything else — the picker, the animation, the profile slot — is handled by Telegram.
Gift prices at warungstar are quoted in rupiah with the payment fee already included. The dollar column below is a rough conversion at about Rp 17,771 per dollar; the rupiah figure is the one that leaves your wallet.
| Amount | Price (IDR) | Approx. USD | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13⭐ gift | Rp 4,320 | about $0.24 | a quick thank-you |
| 21⭐ gift | Rp 7,200 | about $0.41 | birthdays, small wins |
| 50⭐ | Rp 14,400 | about $0.81 | regular gifting |
| 100⭐ | Rp 28,800 | about $1.62 | supporting a creator |
| 500⭐ | Rp 144,000 | about $8.10 | channel milestones |
| 1,000⭐ | Rp 288,000 | about $16.20 | giveaways |
Custom amounts between 50 and 1,000 stars follow the same flat rate of Rp 288 per star, so a 250-star balance costs around Rp 72,000. Keep that in mind if you plan to send several gifts in one evening: buying a balance once is cheaper per star than buying three separate small gift packs.
Open the chat you want to gift, then look for the gift button beside the message field — the same row where the attachment and emoji icons sit. Tapping it opens the gift picker, which lists the available designs with their star prices. Pick one, check that your balance covers it, and confirm.
If the picker opens but every design is greyed out, your balance is short. You do not need to leave the app to fix that; top up first, come back, and the same picker will let you through. If the chat is a group rather than a one-to-one, the gift still lands in that group, so everyone in it sees the animation.
The layout differs slightly, but the path is the same: open the chat, find the gift icon near the input bar, choose a design, confirm. On iOS the confirmation sheet shows the amount being deducted, which makes it a useful last check before you commit.
One iOS-specific annoyance: if the app was installed with a different Apple ID than the one you usually buy with, in-app purchases can fail. That is exactly the case where paying through QRIS outside the app store saves you the headache — the stars arrive in your Telegram balance regardless of which Apple ID is signed in, because the purchase never touches Apple's billing.
Desktop and Telegram Web both support gifts. Hover over the message field, open the attachment area, and look for the gift entry; the picker then behaves the same as on mobile. The advantage on a computer is precision — you can see the full list of designs at once instead of scrolling a phone sheet, which matters when you are choosing between similar-looking presents.
What you cannot do on desktop is pay with an app-store balance. Purchases there run through whatever payment method Telegram offers for your region, which is often a card. If you do not keep a card on file, top up stars first and spend from the balance instead.
Channels accept gifts the same way people do, as long as the channel has them enabled. Open the channel, use the gift button, and the present posts into the feed. For a creator, this is not just decoration: the stars behind the gift land in the channel's star balance, which can later be converted to Toncoin through Fragment under Telegram's rules and fees.
That makes channel gifting a form of support rather than a private nicety. If you want the creator to actually notice you, attach a short message — public gifts with a line of context read very differently from an anonymous animation in a feed that moves fast.
From payment to a delivered gift, most people are done inside ten minutes, and the gift itself is instant once the stars are in place. If verification stalls, /orders pulls up the order history and /redeliver requests another delivery attempt; /riwayat is the record you want if you need to check what you paid.
The gift appears in the conversation with the sender's name attached, and it is saved on the recipient's profile rather than scrolling away with the chat history. If they have notifications on, they get one when it lands. Nothing is asked of them — there is no claim link to click and no code to redeem, which is also why gift scams are easy to spot: any "gift" that asks you to log in somewhere is not a Telegram gift.
The stars inside the gift add to their balance. A regular user spends that balance on gifts of their own, premium reactions, or paid posts in channels. A channel owner can convert an accumulated balance to Toncoin through Fragment. Either way, the value does not evaporate.
Gifts work best when the moment is small and public: a friend's good news, a channel's first anniversary, a moderator who cleaned up a messy thread. They are a poor substitute for an actual reply when someone needs an answer, and a strange thing to send to a stranger out of nowhere.
If you are gifting for work — thanking a community volunteer, rewarding a giveaway winner — keep the amount modest and the message specific. Rp 7,200 spent on a person who helped you is worth more socially than Rp 144,000 dropped anonymously into a channel with no note, and it costs a lot less.
A 13-star gift costs Rp 4,320 and a 21-star gift costs Rp 7,200 at warungstar, with the payment fee included. Custom amounts from 50 to 1,000 stars are Rp 288 per star.
No. A regular Telegram account can buy stars and send gifts. Premium changes features on your own account, not your ability to gift.
Yes, as long as the channel has gifts enabled. Open the channel, use the gift button, and the present posts into the feed and counts toward the channel's star balance.
Yes, if the version of Telegram you are using shows the message field in the gift picker. Keep it short; it appears in the chat beside the animation.
No. Gifts cannot be recalled or reversed once delivered, which is why the username and the chat are confirmed before payment.
Check the order with /status, wait up to ten minutes, then use /redeliver and send your payment screenshot when the bot asks for it.
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