The most powerful SMS spam blocker on iOS. Artificial intelligence, customizable lists, regular expressions. Easily get rid of political spam, ads, scams and more.
Junkman is the most powerful SMS filtering app for iOS. It can classify incoming messages as normal, junk, transaction or promotion. It will not classify old messages. It works completely locally on your device without the need for any network connectivity. It is written to filter all kinds of unwanted text messages, including betting, political, scam messages and company advertisements.
Junkman primarily uses a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm called Smart Filter, that is trained with thousands of messages in English, French and Turkish languages. This results in an artificial intelligence which can classify the message contents. The Smart Filter can differentiate between normal (conversations etc.), transaction (bank OTP messages, shipping information, doctor appointments, etc.) and junk (promotional, gambling, unsolicited, spam etc.) messages instantly. It treats all promotion messages as junk.
Junkman also has a spam and threat database with special filters to detect and filter the most invasive junk messages without the need for the Smart Filter.
In case you would like to override the classification of the automated filters, you can add rules to one of the Allowed, Junk, Transaction and Promotion lists in the app.
The rule lists let you write much more powerful rules than most of the competing apps. They can work on both the sender or the content of a message and they accept any input including regular expressions (Regex). They are also simpler to manage than other apps.
If you think the Smart Filter did not classify one or more messages correctly, you can report them from the Messages app (iPhone only) for review. The more wrong classifications you report, the better the Smart Filter gets!
Features of Junkman:
• Smart Filter: A state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm that can classify any message in English or Turkish as normal, junk or transaction
• Spam and Threat Database: A database that includes special filters which can be updated immediately using instant notifications when necessary
• Proactive Filter: A special algorithm to directly filter the most invasive junk messages without the need for the Smart Filter
• Rule lists, supporting any input, including powerful regular expressions (Regex)
• Time schedules to customize filtering times
• Under Attack Mode: A mode that can help with text message attacks
• Reporting Extension support to report messages that you think were not classified correctly by the Smart Filter (iPhone only)
• Configuration testing that lets you check any message to see the classification in real time
• iCloud sync support for sender lists to sync information between your devices
• Detailed VoiceOver design for better accessibility support
• Dark mode support
• Interoperability with Begone - Spam Call Blocker and Directory
Junkman is the successor of SMS Checker app.
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Junkman works completely locally on your device. It does not collect, store or transmit any data you enter into it. It does not collect, store or transmit any information from the messages it filters. Junkman respects the privacy of its users with utmost importance.
End user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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IMPORTANT: Updating your device to iOS 26 can disable text filtering. Please make sure that Junkman is enabled in your device settings.
If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device.
• Updated Smart Filter and Proactive Filter
Version 13.3
The developer, Kerem Erkan, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Colour Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Provider
AKE Software GmbH
Size
28.8 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.