Janitor AI Age Verification: What It Actually Asks For

• The check applies to connections from Australia, Brazil and the UK — not everywhere
• Three ways through it: face age estimation, ID scan, or AgeKey. No single document is mandatory
• The provider is k-ID, the same one Discord, Twitch and Snapchat use
• k-ID does not keep your document or face data; Janitor receives a pass or fail and nothing else
• Two of the three alternatives below ask for nothing at all. The third asks for the same document Janitor does

If you searched for a Janitor AI alternative this month, there is a decent chance it was not about the model or the character cards. It was about being asked for a document. That change is real, it is recent, and it is worth understanding before you go looking for somewhere else — because one of the popular alternatives asks for exactly the same thing.

What Janitor AI actually asks for

From their own help pages: users connecting from IP addresses in Australia, Brazil or the UK need to complete a one-time age verification. Australia and Brazil went live on 24 April 2026, the UK followed on 15 June. It is a legal requirement rather than a product decision — the alternative was blocking those countries outright, with fines reaching tens of millions.

There are three routes through it, and this is the part most write-ups get wrong: no single document is universally required. You can pass with facial age estimation, with an ID scan, or with an AgeKey. The verification runs through k-ID — the same provider behind Discord, Twitch and Snapchat — and by their own description k-ID does not store your documents or facial data after the check. Janitor itself receives a pass or fail signal and nothing more.

That is a milder arrangement than the phrase «send them your passport» suggests. It is still a step you did not have before, and if your connection is not in those three countries, it does not apply to you at all.

What the alternatives ask for

We opened each of these from a US connection on 12 August 2026 and recorded what the signup actually demanded. This is observation, not a quote from a policy — barriers get added and removed quietly, so the date matters.

Lovescape is on that list because leaving it off would be dishonest. It is one of the services we link to, and it asks for a document — a video selfie, an ID, or the Yoti app, depending on what you pick. Its own screen points at local law as the reason. If avoiding verification is the whole point of your search, Lovescape does not solve it.

The trade nobody mentions

GoLove asks for nothing, and that is genuinely the shortest path from «I want to try this» to a conversation. What you give up is choice: the catalogue is women only, and there is no character editor at all. You pick from what exists rather than building someone. For a lot of people that is fine — the editor is the part most never open. If it is not fine for you, OurDream also asks for nothing and does have both male characters and an editor.

What none of them replicate is the thing Janitor is actually good at: a large library of user-written character cards and the freedom to bring your own model. If that is why you were there, no companion app on this list is a swap — it is a different product with a different shape.

How to check this yourself

• Open the signup from the connection you will actually use — the check is geographic, and a VPN changes the answer
• Read the age screen before entering an email; the demand appears there, not in the terms
• Search the terms for «verification» and «age» — the wording tells you which provider sits in the middle
• Remember that a service asking for nothing today can ask tomorrow, without an announcement

Janitor facts are from janitorai.com and its help centre, read on 20 August 2026. The signup observations are from 12 August 2026. We do not score these apps out of five and we do not rank them — the table above is what we saw, with the date we saw it.