Discord bots – the top 20 for your channel

Discord has long shed its status as a pure gaming platform. A growing number of teams and companies are now using the platform to chat or organise video con­fer­ences, as an al­tern­at­ive to ap­plic­a­tions such as Teamspeak or Mumble. An advantage of the online service is that it can be cus­tom­ised using a variety of Discord bots. Each bot serves a different purpose. Read on to find out more about the best 20 Discord bots.

MEE6 refers to itself as the best mod­er­a­tion bot on Discord and it is a valid claim. Users can set up commands, assign roles, create a penalty catalogue for in­ap­pro­pri­ate behaviour and auto­mat­ic­ally warn cor­res­pond­ing users with MEE6. In addition, the bot can be used to control music pro­gram­ming on a server. The bot is an excellent choice, in par­tic­u­lar for large servers.

Apollo is a useful Discord bot because it sim­pli­fies joint meetings and ar­range­ments. The bot lets users schedule ap­point­ments or events and send invites to par­ti­cipants who can confirm or decline an invite and receive automated reminders of an upcoming event. Regular ap­point­ments can be easily set up and kept track of.

Discord bots like Group­flows are useful to help with schedul­ing. If you want to schedule a meeting or a personal call, you can use Group­flows to create an event and monitor a list of ac­cept­ances and can­cela­tions. The bot also comes with a reminder function.

When working in large teams or in a different language, clear com­mu­nic­a­tion can be an issue. The Discord bot trans­lat­or auto­mat­ic­ally trans­lates over 100 languages to ensure a smooth in­ter­na­tion­al exchange. The full version of the service is not free, but a free trial version is available.

Helper is one of the best Discord bots for busi­nesses that want to stay in touch with their com­munit­ies through the platform, while providing good customer service. The bot lets customers send questions and criticism directly via Discord so that busi­nesses are able to respond quickly. The bot is ideal for close customer contact, fast feedback, and a sat­is­fact­ory solution to customer queries.

StatBot is the right choice when you wish to view usage and user behaviour on your own Discord server. The Discord bot displays the number of users engaging with posts, writing messages or other activ­it­ies. Insights are displayed graph­ic­ally in charts for you to maintain a full overview for com­par­is­on.

In the first instance, Musibeth is among the classic Discord music bots, which let you play YouTube content on your server. While this will be of interest to many users, those running their own YouTube channel can benefit the most because the bot can promote your channel and boost its pop­ular­ity.

Community Hubs connects different servers. Instead of a closed system, users can interact with other channels through the Discord bot. Although the tool was ori­gin­ally intended for the gaming community, it is useful in a business context too. For example, streams can be shown and bundled sim­ul­tan­eously across several channels.

RhinoBot adds music to your server. This simple but user-friendly bot lets you play back YouTube videos, create a queue, or schedule a random song order.

Aethex bundles numerous features making it one of the more com­pre­hens­ive Discord bots. Simple mod­er­a­tion tools and message in­teg­ra­tion, user stat­ist­ics and no­ti­fic­a­tions, small group games and in­teg­ra­tion of back­ground music from YouTube or Sound­Cloud are all part of its cap­ab­il­it­ies. The bot is a real asset for large servers.

This Discord bot is aimed at original users of the platform. With classic 8-bit graphics, the bot features so-called Tat­sug­otchis, which sound like ‘Tamag­ot­chi’ for a reason. Users can choose from over 100 virtual pets to stay engaged.

Serum accepts user voice commands. Much like Siri or Alexa, the Discord bot performs a task when called up. Serum can be used to adjust volume settings, minimise window sizes and more.

The sesh bot is a classic calendar bot. Users can create ap­point­ments and syn­chron­ise their calendar apps to it. Other cap­ab­il­it­ies of the Discord bot include schedul­ing ap­point­ments with different par­ti­cipants via a poll module. The paid version provides more features and ad­di­tion­al options.

The Carl-bot takes on automated tasks for you to save time. For example, it can assign Reaction Roles based on emojis. You can create custom tags, send automatic warnings in case of mis­be­ha­viour, and track the server. Though in­di­vidu­ally its functions appear somewhat minor, when bundled together they help you manage your channel and engage users through­out the process.

The ProBot fulfils several tasks at once. It auto­mat­ic­ally welcomes new users with an image, plays music, or create user logs. The bot in­ter­venes when server guidelines are violated. It re­cog­nises offensive words and issues warnings or rep­rim­ands in response. You can adjust guidelines in­di­vidu­ally.

Dyno is a jack-of-all-trades and helps you manage your server. The dashboard makes it easy to take over mod­er­a­tion or submit tasks, auto-assign roles, and set rules. In­di­vidu­ally, all these activ­it­ies would take a lot of time, but thanks to the Discord bot, tasks are sped up while you keep track of everything.

Memes belong in every community, and Dank Memer puts them at your fin­ger­tips. With simple shortcuts, you can select ap­pro­pri­ate memes, ranging from cute animal photos to funny pictures. Moreover, you can use the Discord bot to play mini games.

Rythm adds music to Discord. Ac­cen­tu­ate your channel with the right sound by playing a single song or a full playlist. You decide whether other users are allowed to add songs or manage playlists. YouTube, Sound­Cloud, Twitch, and Spotify are supported.

This open-source bot lets you purchase crypto­cur­ren­cies hassle-free and provides useful features such as wallet gen­er­a­tion or con­ver­sion. While this may not be in­ter­est­ing for everyone, en­thu­si­asts will find DisCrypto and its active community one of the best Discord bots available.

Test your knowledge with the TriviaBot! Over 100,000 questions are waiting to be answered by you and/or other users. TriviaBot can be played alone, but is much more fun with several par­ti­cipants. Form teams and display the results across a leader board. You can submit your questions to benefit a more in­di­vidu­al­ised quiz ex­per­i­ence.

The bottom line is you can choose from a huge number of different Discord bots. Even creating your own Discord bots is possible. But how do you add them to your own channel?

For­tu­nately, adding Discord bots to your website is as easy as 1-2-3. Most bots will display an add or install button on their website. Once you click on it, you can log into Discord and select the channel which you want to use the bot for. Last but not least, click ‘Authorize’ and you will be able to use the Discord bot via shortcuts.