7.) Telegram Bots

One of its best and newest features found in Telegram is that chatbots can run inside the messenger app itself. Telegram open-sourced the code of their chatbot, as well as the Telegram API, and they even have a Bot API and platform for third-party developers to create bots.

Bots created with Telegram’s Bot API can perform many things, such as send customized notifications and news, reminders or alert messages, they can be integrated with other services such as Github or Youtube, or can even be used to build games such as a chess bot .

8.) Botkit

Botkit is a toolkit for making bots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Twilio IP Messaging, and other messaging platforms. What makes Botkit different from other bot-creators is that it provides a semantic interfaceto send and receive messages so that developers can focus on creating their applications instead of dealing with API endpoints.

Bots made with Botkit have a few key capabilities that can be used to create a clever, conversational application. These capabilities map the way real humans talk to each other by listening, saying and replying. With these core actions, almost any type of conversation can be generated.

9.) Kit Bot

Kit Bot is actually an SMS chatbot which ” takes care” of your human relationships by asking questions about your daily activities with your friends, and reminding you about the people you haven’t seen for a while. It’s quite simple to use the service, you only have to go to the main site, and register your phone number.

10.) Init.ai

Init.ai allows you to build, train, and deploy intelligent conversational apps. Conversational bots you create can reach customers via Facebook Messenger, your website, or even SMS. It offers you a powerful natural language understanding & machine learning system that can break apart sentence structure and analyze the context of a conversation. The thing is, it hasn’t been launched yet

Honorable mentions:

1. Flow XO — This is the only chatbot platform to provide over 100 integrations. It boasts an easy-to-use visual editor. It also provides many pre-built templates for a quick start.
2. Bottr — gives you an option to embed your bot on your website. You can also add data from a Medium, WordPress, or Wikipedia site for better data coverage.
3. Motion AI — to visually build, train, and deploy chatbots on FB Messenger, Slack, Smooch, or your website. It lets you diagram your conversation flow like a flowchart to get a visual overview of the outcomes of a bot query.
4. Chattypeople  - has predefined chatbots ready to start-off. The website has templates for e-commerce, customer support, and food business. If you select on e-commerce chat bot you only have to add Products, Q & A, and some general settings.
5. QnA Maker  – Microsoft has created a QnA bot in which you have to share the URL of your FAQ page and the bot will be created in a few minutes using the information on the FAQ page and structured data.
6. Recast.AI | Collaborative Bot Platform  - enables you to train, build and run your bot. Creating and Managing Your conversation logic with Bot Builder and visual flow interface helps you set up responses very quickly.