diff --git a/packages/html-parser/README.md b/packages/html-parser/README.md
index 98d4ecfd..4f1b953a 100644
--- a/packages/html-parser/README.md
+++ b/packages/html-parser/README.md
@@ -13,17 +13,14 @@ API ([documented here](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#html-style))
 
 ```typescript
 import { TelegramClient } from '@mtcute/client'
-import { HtmlMessageEntityParser } from '@mtcute/html-parser'
+import { HtmlMessageEntityParser, html } from '@mtcute/html-parser'
 
 const tg = new TelegramClient({ ... })
 tg.registerParseMode(new HtmlMessageEntityParser())
 
 tg.sendText(
     'me',
-    'Hello, <b>me</b>! Updates from the feed:\n' +
-        HtmlMessageEntityParser.escape(
-            await getUpdatesFromFeed()
-        )
+    html`Hello, <b>me</b>! Updates from the feed:\n${await getUpdatesFromFeed()}`
 )
 ```
 
@@ -94,4 +91,13 @@ bold _and_** _italic_
 Escaping in this parser works exactly the same as in `htmlparser2`.
 
 This means that you can keep `<>&` symbols as-is in some cases. However, when dealing with user input, it is always
-better to use [`HtmlMessageEntityParser.escape`](./classes/htmlmessageentityparser.html#escape)
+better to use [`HtmlMessageEntityParser.escape`](./classes/htmlmessageentityparser.html#escape) or, even better,
+`html` helper:
+
+```typescript
+import { html } from '@mtcute/html-parser'
+
+const username = 'Boris <&>'
+const text = html`Hi, ${username}!`
+console.log(text) // Hi, Boris &amp;lt;&amp;amp;&amp;gt;!
+```
diff --git a/packages/html-parser/src/index.ts b/packages/html-parser/src/index.ts
index 33b02022..e9e93d80 100644
--- a/packages/html-parser/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/html-parser/src/index.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@ import bigInt from 'big-integer'
 
 const MENTION_REGEX = /^tg:\/\/user\?id=(\d+)(?:&hash=(-?[0-9a-fA-F]+)(?:&|$)|&|$)/
 
+/**
+ * Tagged template based helper for escaping entities in HTML
+ *
+ * @example
+ * ```typescript
+ * const escaped = html`<b>${user.displayName}</b>`
+ * ```
+ */
+export function html(strings: TemplateStringsArray, ...sub: string[]): string {
+    let str = ''
+    sub.forEach((it, idx) => {
+        str += strings[idx] + HtmlMessageEntityParser.escape(it)
+    })
+    return str + strings[strings.length - 1]
+}
+
 export namespace HtmlMessageEntityParser {
     /**
      * Syntax highlighter function used in {@link HtmlMessageEntityParser.unparse}
diff --git a/packages/html-parser/tests/html-parser.spec.ts b/packages/html-parser/tests/html-parser.spec.ts
index c8f92a9f..df4db8d3 100644
--- a/packages/html-parser/tests/html-parser.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/html-parser/tests/html-parser.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, it } from 'mocha'
 import { expect } from 'chai'
 import { tl } from '@mtcute/tl'
-import { HtmlMessageEntityParser } from '../src'
+import { HtmlMessageEntityParser, html } from '../src'
 import { MessageEntity } from '@mtcute/client'
 import bigInt from 'big-integer'
 
@@ -450,4 +450,15 @@ describe('HtmlMessageEntityParser', () => {
             test('<a href="">link</a> <a>link</a>', [], 'link link')
         })
     })
+
+    describe('template', () => {
+        it('should work as a tagged template literal', () => {
+            const unsafeString = '<&>'
+
+            expect(html`${unsafeString}`).eq('&lt;&amp;&gt;')
+            expect(html`${unsafeString} <b>text</b>`).eq('&lt;&amp;&gt; <b>text</b>')
+            expect(html`<b>text</b> ${unsafeString}`).eq('<b>text</b> &lt;&amp;&gt;')
+            expect(html`<b>${unsafeString}</b>`).eq('<b>&lt;&amp;&gt;</b>')
+        })
+    })
 })
diff --git a/packages/markdown-parser/README.md b/packages/markdown-parser/README.md
index 6b853bf1..78690c20 100644
--- a/packages/markdown-parser/README.md
+++ b/packages/markdown-parser/README.md
@@ -12,17 +12,14 @@ This package implements formatting syntax similar to Markdown (CommonMark) but s
 
 ```typescript
 import { TelegramClient } from '@mtcute/client'
-import { MarkdownMessageEntityParser } from '@mtcute/markdown-parser'
+import { MarkdownMessageEntityParser, md } from '@mtcute/markdown-parser'
 
 const tg = new TelegramClient({ ... })
 tg.registerParseMode(new MarkdownMessageEntityParser())
 
 tg.sendText(
     'me',
-    'Hello, **me**! Updates from the feed:\n' +
-        MarkdownMessageEntityParser.escape(
-            await getUpdatesFromFeed()
-        )
+    md`Hello, **me**! Updates from the feed:\n${await getUpdatesFromFeed()}`
 )
 ```
 
@@ -126,7 +123,7 @@ like `"\\_\\_not italic\\_\\_`.
 > **Note**: backslash itself must be escaped like this: ` \\ ` (double backslash).
 >
 > This will look pretty bad in real code, so use escaping only when really needed, and use
-> [`MarkdownMessageEntityParser.escape`](./classes/markdownmessageentityparser.html#escape) or
+> [`MarkdownMessageEntityParser.escape`](./classes/markdownmessageentityparser.html#escape) or `md` or
 > other parse modes (like HTML one provided by [`@mtcute/html-parser`](../html-parser/index.html))) instead.
 
 > In theory, you could escape every single non-markup character, but why would you want to do that 😜
diff --git a/packages/markdown-parser/src/index.ts b/packages/markdown-parser/src/index.ts
index a63855ad..e4426219 100644
--- a/packages/markdown-parser/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/markdown-parser/src/index.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,22 @@ const TAG_PRE = '```'
 
 const TO_BE_ESCAPED = /[*_\-~`[\\\]]/g
 
+/**
+ * Tagged template based helper for escaping entities in Markdown
+ *
+ * @example
+ * ```typescript
+ * const escaped = md`**${user.displayName}**`
+ * ```
+ */
+export function md(strings: TemplateStringsArray, ...sub: string[]): string {
+    let str = ''
+    sub.forEach((it, idx) => {
+        str += strings[idx] + MarkdownMessageEntityParser.escape(it)
+    })
+    return str + strings[strings.length - 1]
+}
+
 /**
  * Markdown MessageEntity parser.
  *
diff --git a/packages/markdown-parser/tests/markdown-parser.spec.ts b/packages/markdown-parser/tests/markdown-parser.spec.ts
index 6d91d2d2..99f4a5b1 100644
--- a/packages/markdown-parser/tests/markdown-parser.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/markdown-parser/tests/markdown-parser.spec.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { describe, it } from 'mocha'
 import { expect } from 'chai'
 import { tl } from '@mtcute/tl'
 import { MessageEntity } from '@mtcute/client'
-import { MarkdownMessageEntityParser } from '../src'
+import { MarkdownMessageEntityParser, md } from '../src'
 import bigInt from 'big-integer'
 
 const createEntity = <T extends tl.TypeMessageEntity['_']>(
@@ -647,4 +647,15 @@ describe('MarkdownMessageEntityParser', () => {
             })
         })
     })
+
+    describe('template', () => {
+        it('should work as a tagged template literal', () => {
+            const unsafeString = '__[]__'
+
+            expect(md`${unsafeString}`).eq('\\_\\_\\[\\]\\_\\_')
+            expect(md`${unsafeString} **text**`).eq('\\_\\_\\[\\]\\_\\_ **text**')
+            expect(md`**text** ${unsafeString}`).eq('**text** \\_\\_\\[\\]\\_\\_')
+            expect(md`**${unsafeString}**`).eq('**\\_\\_\\[\\]\\_\\_**')
+        })
+    })
 })