Bouncer: Spam Text 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 have been using this for a couple of years and it works great to catch the garbage that I have filters set for. Unfortunately it seems or only work for SMS? I keep getting scam iMessagss from the Philippines for toll road violations and none of my filters catch them. I had filters with "Toll" and "toll" (shouldn't need both) and messages with "The Toll Roads" go right through. That's just one example. SMS always get caught, though.

Could this be because I have iMessage in the cloud with iPad and Macbook? I haven't been able to figure it out.

Thank you for your review.

Unfortunately because of iOS limitations, Bouncer can't filter iMessages or messages in your Mac and Apple Watch. Once Apple support that, it will be added to Bouncer.

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! 🎉