5 bots to try this week: Bly, Smokey, MotivateBot, Reply.ai, and Rudolf Adventson

This week, three of the five bots to try include animals as icons — and two of them are reindeer, though only one of the antlered creatures is related to Christmas. But perhaps it makes cosmic sense, as we’re just shifting now from turkeys and pilgrims to another holiday season.

Here are the five most popular bots this past week, as they appear on Botlist. Please give them a try, and let us know what you think.

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5. Rudolf Adventson

Send 24 photos to Rudolf on Facebook Messenger and he turns them into a digital christmas calendar that you can share with your loved ones.

Starting on December 1st your loved ones can explore their christmas calendar on their smartphones, in which they can find and puzzle one of your 24 photos every day. A great way to count down the days until christmas eve and a great way to put 24 smiles on their face. So take your loved ones on a magical trip during this year’s christmas time and create a calendar for them!

Available on Messenger

4. Reply.ai

The platform to build & manage your conversational strategy. Deploy your bot across all messaging platforms (and web) and have human agents taking over only when needed.

Automate conversations with your consumers. Have your human agents take over when needed. Payments support on Messenger. 2M+ interactions so far.

We support Facebook Messenger, Kik, Telegram, LINE, SMS or your own chat screen. We use native custom UI elements in each channel. Web widget available too.

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As simple as drag & drop, but with all the power to build advanced bots with your backend. No more waiting for a developer. Simulate your changes and see them instantly.

Available on Web

3. MotivateBot

MotivateBot sends you an inspiring quote every morning to kick off your day in FB Messenger. The bot is also always on call waiting to send you more quotes! Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James

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Available on Messenger

2. Smokey

Smokey, a Facebook Messenger Chatbot, Puts Real-time Air Pollution Metrics At Your Fingertips

Did you know that 6.5 million people die every year because of air pollution? That’s 18,000 deaths every single day – more than the number of people killed by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and traffic accidents combined!

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Smokey is like Poncho but for air pollution. We believe that air quality data should be as easily accessible as weather data.

Are you a runner? You can now automatically get alerted only when the air quality in your city reaches unhealthy levels, so you can opt for the treadmill instead of running outdoors.

Are you a parent? You can get regular air quality updates every morning and decide whether your children should wear a face mask to school or not.

Message Smokey today to get your city’s real-time air quality data at your fingertips

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Available on Messenger

1. Bly

Bly is a smart virtual assistant for connecting individuals and/or professionals to sell, buy, rent, and offers services thanks to a powerful artificial intelligence engine. Bly understands you and gets you in touch with the right person as soon as possible. It was designed to behave like a friend who helps you sell, buy, rent, or offer services.

Available on Messenger

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Popularity of the top 5 bots on Botlist is based on web traffic to individual bots’ pages appearing on the site, which currently lists more than 11,000 bots. The bot directory says it receives more than 200 submissions each week and tests their purpose, functionality, content, and overall quality before accepting them. This week’s rankings were for the period November 21 – 27, 2016.