@MissRose_botFree
A welcome bot greets every new member of a group, shows the rules and, if you want, asks the newcomer to press a button to prove they are human. Most bots in this rating are full group managers where the greeting is one of many features.
| # | Bot | Price | Languages | Inline | Groups | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @MissRose_bot | Free | EN · RU · MULTI | no | yes | 88 |
| 2 | @GroupHelpBot | Free | EN · RU · MULTI | no | yes | 86 |
| 3 | @chatkeeperbot | Freemium | EN | no | yes | 79 |
| 4 | @GroupButler_bot | Free | EN | no | yes | 71 |
| 5 | @daysandbox_bot | Free | EN | no | yes | 68 |
Every bot was added to a test group with the same task: greet a newcomer by name with a button to the rules, delete the greeting after five minutes, and show the rules on the /rules command. We checked whether the greeting handles a burst of ten joins, whether captcha stops a bot account we added, how the setup works from a phone and which languages the interface is available in.
For a small chat a bot built around rules and greetings, such as Group Butler, is enough: a welcome message plus the rules on a command. Once a group grows past a few hundred members, spam and raids arrive, and a group manager such as Rose or Group Help gives you the greeting together with captcha, anti-flood, word filters and warn/mute/ban commands. Switching later is painful because members must pass the new captcha, so pick the manager early if growth is the plan.
Keep the greeting short and put the rules behind a button or a command rather than in the message itself. Mention what the group is for and what gets you removed. Set the greeting to delete itself after a few minutes, otherwise a busy group's history becomes a wall of welcomes. A captcha button stops most bot accounts; puzzle captchas annoy real people and rarely stop determined spammers.
Give the bot admin rights only for what it does: delete messages and restrict members, not add admins or change group info. Group managers store member lists and settings on their own servers; read the bot's privacy notes if the group is private. Rose's federations link many groups to one ban list, which is useful for a network of chats and dangerous if you share a federation with strangers.
Rose supports dozens of languages, switched with /setlang, and Group Help is multilingual as well; ChatKeeperBot, Group Butler and DaySandBox work in English.
Yes, all bots in the rating support placeholders for the name, username and group title in the greeting text.
Rose, Group Help and ChatKeeperBot can delete the greeting after a delay or when the next member joins.
A press-the-button captcha stops most automated accounts; combine it with a word filter and anti-flood for spam sent by people.
