Escudo: Scam Text Filter
Protect your family
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
SMS scams stop appearing on your family's phone. Automatic, private, all on device. In English and Spanish.
Fake bank texts, fake delivery fees and fake payment demands stop showing up on your family's phone.
Escudo checks every SMS that arrives from an unknown number and quietly moves the scams aside, right on the device. Nobody has to learn anything, touch anything, or decide anything.
BUILT FOR YOUR PARENTS (AND FOR YOU)
Install it once, you or them, in under a minute. From that moment, Escudo works on its own.
NOTHING IS EVER DELETED
Filtered messages go to the Junk folder in Messages, not the trash. A real message is never lost and can always be recovered.
TRULY PRIVATE
The filter runs entirely on the phone: the extension that reads your messages cannot access the internet. The app downloads updated detection rules, but your messages never leave the device. Escudo has no accounts, asks for no data, and cannot read your conversations.
EMERGENCY GUIDE
If someone calls claiming they have a family member, Escudo includes a calm step by step guide: what to do, what not to do and who to call. Escudo never tells you whether a threat is real or fake. It teaches you to verify without putting anyone at risk.
EMERGENCY GUIDE
If someone calls claiming they have a family member, Escudo includes a calm, step-by-step guide: what to do, what not to do and who to call. Escudo never tells you whether a threat is real or fake. It teaches you to verify without putting anyone at risk.
WHAT IT FILTERS AND WHAT IT DOES NOT
Escudo acts only on SMS from numbers that are not in your contacts, which is exactly where scams live. Messages from your contacts and your WhatsApp chats are never touched.
FAMILY PLAN
Always updated detection rules, a weekly alert on active scams, labeling of community-reported scam calls, and protection for your whole family. Family is an annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, in your Apple account settings. The basic filter is free forever.
Built in Spanish and English because scam texts in the US come in both.
Also available in the United Kingdom
Terms of use: https://escudoapp.com/terms/
Privacy: https://escudoapp.com/privacy/
Apple standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Escudo now sets aside scams that ask you to call a number, not only the ones with a link.
New monthly plan alongside the yearly one.
Share your plan with your family from the Family screen, with a code or a QR.
Your plan is no longer lost when the subscription renews.
The developer, Rafael V, 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.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Rafael V
- Size
- 51.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Familiar $2.99
- Familiar $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Escudoapp
