
Junkman: A.I. SMS Blocker 4+
Smart SMS Spam Filter
Kerem Erkan
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The most powerful SMS spam blocker on iOS. Automatic filtering using artificial intelligence, customizable lists supporting powerful regular expressions 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 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 special algorithm called Aggressive Filter 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 Smart Filter or the Aggressive Filter, you can add rules to one of the Safe, Junk, Transaction and Promotion lists in the app.
If you don't receive English or Turkish messages, and you only receive messages in other languages, you can disable the Smart Filter completely and manage messages using the rule lists. Aggressive Filter will remain active in this case.
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
• Aggressive Filter: A special algorithm to directly filter the most invasive junk messages without the need for the Smart Filter
• Scam and phishing filter: A special filter that can be updated immediately using instant notifications when necessary
• Rule lists, supporting any input, including powerful regular expressions (Regex)
• 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
• Support for both iOS and iPadOS devices
• Silences notifications for junk messages on Apple Watch
• Detailed VoiceOver design for better accessibility support
• Dark mode support
• Interoperability with Begone - Call Blocker and Directory
Junkman must be enabled as a message filter in Settings -> Messages -> Unknown & Spam in order to start classifying messages.
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.
What’s New
Version 8.2
If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device.
Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support.
• Sender filtering support for scam and phishing filter
• Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter updates
Ratings and Reviews
Excellent app but…
Excellent app but wish it could delete the sms spam instead of just classify it. Would be nice to have two profiles: 1 to filter and one to delete. The fact that I’m typing this shows how good it is but some sms is so clearly from idiots and needs to be deleted.
Why doesn’t apple want to do this themselves?!?! Not sure but Junkman handles this for them.
Developer Response ,
Hi, thank you very much for your review. As you probably know, Apple does not let us delete messages, only filter them. Perhaps they will change this in a future iOS version, if that happens, I’ll surely add it.
Excellent filter that JUST WORKS
I’ve had Junkman for about a month now and it really was a godsend. I’ve used Hiya and other “SMS Filtering” apps but then still get all the clickbait spam messages coming through 2-3x a day. It wasn’t until Junkman that those messages just got buried.
It’s great to have an app that cuts down on distractions and annoyances all day!
Developer Response ,
Many thanks for your very first review for Junkman 😊
Really works!!
I was getting junk/inappropriate texts from email addresses and it was SO upsetting - this app really works to filter them out! You can make your own filtering rules (which I haven’t played around with yet) and test if a number will show up as junk or not. I’m very satisfied - thank you so much!!
Developer Response ,
Many thanks for your review. Please report any message it misses, so that I can train its artificial intelligence.
App Privacy
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.
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Information
- Seller
- Ali Kerem Erkan
- Size
- 6.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021-2023 Kerem Erkan
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Small cup of tea $0.99
- Teapot! $2.99
- Large cup of tea $1.99