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24 alternatives to Better Profanity

A Python library to clean swear words and their leetspeaks

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Better Profanity launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A fast, robust Python library to check for offensive language in strings. - vzhou842/profanity-check

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The API that helps you filter bad words from any text

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    I made a free tool that stuns LLMs with invisible Unicode characters. *Use cases:* Anti-plagiarism, text obfuscation against LLM scrapers, or just for fun! Even just one word's worth of “gibberified” text is enough to block most LLMs from responding coherently.

    Nov 2025 · gibberifier.com · its alternatives →

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    Automated profanity censoring for video & audio

    Jun 2026 · redactify.studio · its alternatives →

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    Mute▲404

    Crowdsourced words list to mute on social media

    2017 · mute.life · its alternatives →

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    A profanity soundboard with 40+ languages

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Bleep▲116

    Censor your f***ing videos

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    The problem with existing content moderation: Every developer who's built profanity filtering knows the frustration. Traditional filters either flag "assistant" because it contains "ass," or miss obviously toxic content because they're just matching keywords. They can't tell the difference between "I'll destroy you in this game" (friendly trash talk) and an actual threat. How The Profanity API solves this: I built a 5-layer detection pipeline that analyzes content progressively: Blocklist (L0): Your custom blocklist for instant flagging Static (L1): Exact match against known profanity…

    Jan 2026 · the-profanity-api.com · its alternatives →

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    Nofanity removes swear words from YouTube videos

    2019 · nofanity.com · its alternatives →

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    Rapid fuzzy string matching in Python using various string metrics - rapidfuzz/RapidFuzz

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stress Relieving Fancy Sweary Words

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been impressed with Claude Code but one thing that sometimes gets in the way in my workflows is the messy, mangled text that is shown when pasting text from the Claude Code terminal sessions. So I built an open-source utility that cleans extraneous white space, pipes, and other characters from your CC/Codex pastes. For example, you can turn this: `How can I create a Claude Code script that │ │ cleans up extraneous characters and cleans up │ │ extra spaces, new lines, and other messiness │ when I copy from Claude Code terminal │ │ prompts or copy code from Claude Responses in │ │…

    Mar 2026 · cleanclode.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast & free profanity and toxicity screening via Jev & Laya

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Watch your language yourself, not with moderators

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Check for swear words in a youtube video, srt file, custom

    2021 · pypi.org · its alternatives →

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    Remove profanity from music on Spotify or Apple Music

    2020 · nofanity.com · its alternatives →

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    Profanity & toxicity detection for user-generated content

    2021 · rapidapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Doing dirty (but extremely useful) things with equals. - samuelcolvin/dirty-equals

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A library adding some anti-Pythonic syntatic sugar to Python - czheo/syntax_sugar_python

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bleepr▲84

    Flagging hate speech and propaganda on Twitter using AI

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Keep inappropriate content and trolls out of your community

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A very naive classifier to figure out if a sentence contains dirty words - reddragon/is-dirty

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Beep▲68

    Censor videos with emojis and bleep sounds

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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