Botify AI Alternatives: Catalogue vs Curation

What Botify AI actually is when you open it

The company behind it is Ex-human, Inc., which also runs exh.ai, and the surface most people use is the Android app. Its Google Play listing — "Botify AI: Chatbot & Companion", 1M+ downloads, in-app purchases from $1.99 to $159.99 per item — describes the product in its own words: "Step into a universe where AI characters come to life," then "create your own chatbot, AI girlfriend, boyfriend, or AI friend." The listing sells the maker as the centrepiece: "Use the character maker to design your perfect AI character," choosing "their voice, mood, appearance, and story." That is the engine of the 49,999. A catalogue of that size is not curated by anybody; it is deposited by users, one character at a time.

Botify's own content rules, dated 2021

What Botify publishes about content sits at botify.ai/terms-of-service, which renders only in a browser and carries the line "Last updated: August 28, 2021." It is blunter than most. "The Service is not intended to operate as an adult or pornographic service," it says, and lists what the Service is NOT, including "A platform for explicit adult content." Its Content Restrictions section bans Content that is "unlawful, offensive, threatening, defamatory, obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable," then itemises "Sexually explicit or pornographic content," "Content sexualizing or exploiting minors in any way," "Solicitation of sexual services," and "Prostitution or escort services." The same product ships on Google Play rated Mature 17+.

What a big catalogue buys, and what it costs

That gap between a rulebook and a shelf is the real subject here. Every open catalogue makes the same trade. You gain variety no editor would ever commission — the obscure side character, the oddly specific scenario, the persona nobody would greenlight — and you gain it instantly, because anyone can add one. You lose consistency in exactly the same motion. Characters written in an afternoon drift in voice within a dozen messages; near-duplicates of the same popular figure pile up under slightly different spellings; the long tail is full of bots nobody has opened in a year. Nothing in a sitemap tells you which of the 49,999 is which, and no platform publishes that breakdown.

Counted from their own sitemaps on 21 September 2026, the spread across this category is four orders of magnitude wide.

SpicyChat: millions of bots, and the longest rulebook

SpicyChat sits at the far end. Its sitemap index lists 56 shards of character URLs; the first holds 50,000 of them and the last 29,632, which puts the catalogue comfortably past 2.7 million — roughly fifty-five Botifys. Nobody hand-checks a collection that size, and SpicyChat does not pretend otherwise. What it does instead is publish the most specific rulebook in the category and tell creators, in advance, which of their characters will be deleted.

Its Community Guidelines, last updated 21 October 2025, run to eleven numbered sections. "All Chatbots created on the platform must be portrayed as adults over 18 years old. If not evident, please specify the age in the chatbot's Personality." Public bots "must be your unique creation," and ones that break the rules "will be removed without notice." It bans chatbots "based on real, private, or lesser-known individuals," any "hyper-realistic or photorealistic images that could reasonably be mistaken for real human beings," and deepfakes "under all circumstances." It even names an edge case nobody else touches: bots "with youthful or childlike demeanors will be scrutinized and evaluated individually, even if they are listed as 18 or older." You can predict what you will find there, which is more than catalogue size alone ever tells you.

Character.AI: 280,040 pages and a closed door

Character.AI is the other giant, and it is the one we could not read. Its sitemap index opened fine and is the source of the only figure here we trust about it: 28 shards holding 280,040 URLs, almost all of them character pages. Everything else refused us. The homepage returned a 403, and so did the Community Standards article on its help centre, twice, including through a real browser that sat on a Cloudflare verification screen until it timed out. So its row stays unverified and nothing about its moderation rules appears on this page — we are not going to summarise a policy document we could not open.

Candy.ai: a short shelf with the most paperwork

At the opposite end, Candy.ai shows what a small catalogue plus a large rulebook looks like. Its English sitemap lists 246 character profile pages — 159 under ai-girlfriend, 74 under ai-anime, 13 under ai-boyfriend — against Botify's 49,999. It also publishes more policy pages than anyone else in this comparison: a Blocked Content Policy, Community Guidelines, an Underage Policy, a Content Removal Policy and a Complaint Policy, each on its own URL. The Blocked Content Policy, revised 30 July 2026 and signed by EverAI Limited, names eight prohibited categories and says moderation runs on "our proprietary LLM technology," while stating plainly that "users cannot upload or share content on the Services."

Nomi: nothing to browse at all

Nomi is the third shape: no catalogue at all. There is nothing to browse, because every Nomi is made by the person who talks to it, so questions about drift and dead characters simply do not arise — and neither does discovery. Its published content rules are correspondingly thin. The Terms of Service, effective 16 January 2026, say you "may not use the Site or the Service in any unlawful manner," that "using the System to plan harm to others is prohibited," and that you must be 18 or older. There is no list of banned categories and no community guidelines page; /community-guidelines returns a 404.

Where TooShy lands, third of the five we could read

TooShy is the small, made end of the same axis. Dozens of characters, each written and given a consistent look and voice before it ships, reached inside WhatsApp or Telegram with nothing to install. Because the roster is fixed, none of the catalogue failures above exist: no duplicate spellings of the same anime lead, no bot abandoned by its author, no character whose personality was three lines typed in a hurry. The trade runs the other way — if the character you want is not on the roster, there is no way to make one, because there is no editor. That is why we sit third here rather than first.

What the big catalogues genuinely do better

Be clear about what the big catalogues genuinely do better. Botify's maker answers a request no fixed roster can: an exact character, in your words, in about a minute, and then a shareable page for it. SpicyChat's scale means the obscure thing you have in mind probably already exists and is probably already tagged. Character.AI's 280,040 pages are why it is most people's first stop. Those are real advantages, and none of them are available to a service that hand-builds its cast.

TooShy's honest limits here

And be clear about ours. TooShy publishes no content-rules page of its own — no blocked-content list, no dated guidelines document — which on this page's second criterion puts us behind Candy.ai and SpicyChat, both of which tell you in writing what they refuse before you spend anything. We also publish no moderation detail comparable to Candy's named categories. What we offer instead is that the roster itself is the answer: it is small enough to read end to end before you start. If you want a written rulebook, two companies here have one and we do not.

Who each one actually fits

So: if you want the widest possible shelf and the ability to add to it, Botify AI and SpicyChat are the two that let you, and SpicyChat is the one that tells you the rules first. If you want a short, edited shelf with the paperwork to match, Candy.ai. If you want no shelf at all and a companion built only by you, Nomi. And if you want a small hand-made cast delivered in a messenger you already have, that is what TooShy is, roster limits included.

One thing this page deliberately does not do is rank these by how permissive they are. Whether a service filters, and how hard, is a separate question with its own answers — our roundups of uncensored AI chat apps and of Character.AI alternatives without a filter cover it directly, and the rules quoted above are quoted as published rules, not as predictions about what any model will actually say.

How we counted and what we quoted

Every catalogue figure above was counted by us on 21 September 2026 from each company's own robots.txt and sitemap files, not taken from a press page. Every content rule is quoted from the company's own policy document with the date printed on it. Two sites — Character.AI and JanitorAI — returned 403 to every attempt and are marked unverified, with only the facts their sitemaps gave up stated at all. Botify's terms render client-side, so we read them in a headless browser and noted that they do not open to a plain request.