Bouncer: Text Messages Blocker 4+
Filter spam & political texts
Daniel Bernal
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- $2.99
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Description
Have you been getting lots of political texts recently? Bouncer is the easiest way to stop them!
Introducing Bouncer, your ultimate SMS and text message stopper, designed to reclaim control over your inbox. Say goodbye to spam, unwanted ads, and promotions. This powerful, simple, and easy-to-use app acts as a shield to protect your sanity and privacy.
Features:
• Junk Text Filter:
Based on your defined rules, Bouncer detects and blocks spam and junk messages from unknown contacts. It can also stop unwanted promotions, political spam, and other annoyances so you can enjoy a clean inbox with fewer notifications.
• Privacy Protection:
Bouncer guards your messages and personal information. Texts will never leave your phone or be sent to a server, ensuring your private information remains safe.
• Customizable Blocking:
Easily set rules to block specific keywords, phrases, and numbers. Stay in control and eliminate unwanted messages from your messaging experience.
• Mute Notifications:
Boucer automatically silences notifications from junk and spam messages.
• Seamless Integration:
Bouncer works effortlessly with your Messages app. Switching apps or changing habits is unnecessary—install, set up, and enjoy!
• Regular Expression Support (PCRE):
You can use regular expressions in PCRE format to create advanced filtering rules, including multiple conditions.
• Open Source:
Bouncer is 100% open source and transparent. You can check out the code and contribute on GitHub at https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer.
What’s New
Version 2.6.0
- Updated setup instructions for iOS 18
Ratings and Reviews
This app saved my sanity.
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.
Developer Response ,
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.
Actually works, once you figure out what to filter
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.
Developer Response ,
Glad you find it useful! 🎉
Perfect simple utility!
Started using it with simple keyword matches which worked great! But as election season ramped up, a ton of messages kept getting through. Just upgraded my filters to use regex and now I think it should be even more effective.
We desperately need this on MacOS though! It’s my understanding that Apple doesn’t currently support it, but I surely hope that changes soon!
Anyway thanks so much for this much-needed app! And thanks x1000 for this super reasonable one-time-purchase when we’re drowning in subscription nonsense these days!
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the review and the nice words! 😀
App Privacy
The developer, Daniel Bernal, 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.
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Information
- Seller
- Daniel Bernal
- Size
- 2.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024
- Price
- $2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.