Bouncer - Private SMS Blocker 4+

I am on lists upon lists. Right now the spammers and scammers are taking a political angle. I added the area codes (like "+1 (111)" for the format to add to blocker, minus the quotes) that I have the most smishing/phishing trouble with AND keywords from all sides of the political spectrum, plus keywords on hot-button topics. As I get a new category to address, I add keywords there, too. These don't sync to using iMessage on MacBook or iMac, unfortunately, because I don't like using iCloud to sync messages. Anyway, I will definitely see if there's a tip jar because it's worth it to do so and write a review and I write app reviews maybe 5% or less of the time. The app author saved my sanity from deleting anywhere between 8 and 18 spam and smishing texts every day. Select all, "delete and report as junk" when I care to check, then voila.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write a review! I’m glad it’s working for you as well as it works for me.

Unfortunately Apple does not allow filtering messages on Mac o Apple Watch, but hopefully they will sometime.

I get an average of 3+ spam texts per day, and while it wasn’t working at first once I realized that the one thing all these scammy annoying messages have in common is that they always have hyperlinks to multi-redirect sites, and added “http” to my filter, I haven’t actually gotten a notification for one in 3 days!

Thank you, developers! I’ve had my phone number for 13 years and was starting to seriously consider changing it because I was going batty with the non-stop spam texts.

Glad you find it useful! 🎉

This application works exactly as described, successfully blocking unwanted text messages based on keyword or regex filtering.

I donated to Biden’s campaign once in 2020, and have been getting 3 to 5 donation texts per day. Yes I’ll donate, but not if you spam me hundreds of times a months!!!

Enter this app. Some simple keywords (“actblue”, always in the url, or “Stop2End”, never has a friend said that) are all it takes and they are sent to junk. So much better than these highly rated junk apps that force you into a $80 in app purchase to sign up (yes, I believe it was Hiya), just a simple application by a developer charging way too little.

I even had an issue and got an email reply same day (my fault, not a bug).

My only complaint is charge a little more… $5 or $9.99, people would pay it! Thanks for this app!

😍 Thank you so much for the review!