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24 alternatives to Profanity Buster

The API that helps you filter bad words from any text

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Profanity Buster launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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The Profanity API▲9
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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Tisane API▲205
Detect hate speech, cyberbullying, and more in 27 languages
2018 · tisane.ai · its alternatives →
3
Shut Your Mouth API▲247
An API to end cyber bullying 🤐
2018 · its alternatives →
4
Profanity-check – A fast, robust Python library for detecting profanity▲14
A fast, robust Python library to check for offensive language in strings. - vzhou842/profanity-check
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
5
Profanity & Toxicity Detection▲60
Profanity & toxicity detection for user-generated content
2021 · rapidapi.com · its alternatives →
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API to add bad words to English texts▲10
2014 · cursingapi.com · its alternatives →
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Profanity Checker▲1
Check and clean text snippets for blocked words
Jul 2026 · apify.com · 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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Perspective▲500
Technology to fight abuse online, new from Alphabet
2017 · perspectiveapi.com · its alternatives →
10
Redactify▲95
Automated profanity censoring for video & audio
Jun 2026 · redactify.studio · its alternatives →
11
Socialays: Social Media Guard▲269
No more cyberbullying on social media
2022 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python▲303
2013 · textblob.readthedocs.org · its alternatives →
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GitHub▲6
AI-powered tool to remove profanity, curse words from videos
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stop Curse▲80
Watch your language yourself, not with moderators
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
15
Bullshit Remover▲270
Paste crap, get truth.
2024 · bullshitremover.com · its alternatives →
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A naive classifier to figure out if a sentence contains dirty words▲10
A very naive classifier to figure out if a sentence contains dirty words - reddragon/is-dirty
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
17
Better Profanity▲1
A Python library to clean swear words and their leetspeaks
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
Words API▲104
An API for for the English language
2015 · wordsapi.com · its alternatives →
19
Bleepr▲84
Flagging hate speech and propaganda on Twitter using AI
2020 · its alternatives →
20
Word Counter▲249
A simple, beautiful word and character counter
2018 · wordcounter.io · its alternatives →
21
SMS Junk Filter for iOS▲102
Block unwanted SMS spam text messages
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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WordHunt▲179
Search for specific words and phrases mentioned on YouTube
2018 · wordhunt.xyz · its alternatives →
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Supermonitor API▲14
Toxic-Language Detection Model built with machine learning
2020 · endpoints.ai · its alternatives →
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Filter Everything Online▲70
Hide spoilers, profanity, politics, distractions by keywords
Nov 2025 · filter-everything-online.com · its alternatives →

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