Junkman: A.I. SMS Spam Blocker

Junkman: A.I. SMS Spam Blocker

Smart spam message filter

⭐️4.8 / 5
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🙌51
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📼8 scs
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📦~ in 1 week
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🧾$0.99 - $9.99
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All Versions of Junkman

9.8

June 27, 2024

If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device. Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support. • Added French translation • Re-added configuration test screen • Updated Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter
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9.7

May 19, 2024

If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device. Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support. • Updated Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter
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9.6

May 7, 2024

If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device. Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support. • Prepared the infrastructure of Smart Filter to be able to filter additional languages to English and Turkish in the future • Fixed a bug where updating the spam and threat database would wrongly state a failed download • Updated Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter
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9.5

April 25, 2024

If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device. Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support. • Fixed a bug in rule adding logic • Updated Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter
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9.4

April 21, 2024

If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device. Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support. • New political content filter added to the spam and threat database • Updated Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter
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9.3

April 10, 2024

If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device. Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support. 9.3: • User interface updates • Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter updates 9.2: • Major VoiceOver updates • User interface bug fixes 9.1: • Minor reporting updates • Ability to restore in app subscriptions 9.0: • Updated and more modern design • New Smart Filter logic • New and better phishing and spam sender filter • New reporting extension with better app integration • Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter updates • Many other small changes
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9.2

April 5, 2024

If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device. Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support. 9.2: • Major VoiceOver updates • User interface bug fixes 9.1: • Minor reporting updates • Ability to restore in app subscriptions 9.0: • Updated and more modern design • New Smart Filter logic • New and better phishing and spam sender filter • New reporting extension with better app integration • Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter updates • Many other small changes
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9.1

April 3, 2024

If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device. Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support. 9.1: • Minor reporting updates • Ability to restore in app subscriptions 9.0: • Updated and more modern design • New Smart Filter logic • New and better phishing and spam sender filter • New reporting extension with better app integration • Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter updates • Many other small changes
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9.0

April 2, 2024

If Junkman stops filtering messages after an update, please reboot your device. Thanks to everyone for their positive reviews and support. • Updated and more modern design • New Smart Filter logic • New and better phishing and spam sender filter • New reporting extension with better app integration • Smart Filter and Aggressive Filter updates • Many other small changes
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8.2

November 23, 2023

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
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Junkman In-App Purchases History

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Spam and Threat Database

Protect yourself against known spammers!

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Buy the developer a small cup of tea

$1.99

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$2.99

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$9.99

Spam and Threat Database

Protect yourself against known spammers!

Price History of Junkman

Description of Junkman

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 spam and threat database with special filters 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 automated filters, you can add rules to one of the Allowed, Junk, Transaction and Promotion lists in the app. 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 • Spam and Threat Database: A database that includes special filters which can be updated immediately using instant notifications when necessary • Aggressive Filter: A special algorithm to directly filter the most invasive junk messages without the need for the Smart Filter • 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 • Silences notifications for junk messages on Apple Watch • Detailed VoiceOver design for better accessibility support • Dark mode support • Interoperability with Begone - Spam Call Blocker and Directory Junkman is the successor of SMS Checker app. ----- 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. End user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Junkman: FAQ

Is Junkman optimized for iPad devices?

Yes, Junkman has support for iPad devices.
The Junkman app was made by Ali Kerem Erkan.
Junkman currently supports iOS 15.0 or later.
With a rating of 4.8 out of 5, Junkman is one of the top-rated apps in its category.
The Main Genre Of The Junkman App Is Productivity.
The newest version of Junkman is 9.8.
The last update for Junkman was on July 1, 2024.
Junkman was first released on February 6, 2023.
This app is appropriate for all ages, with no offensive or inappropriate content.
Junkman is available in American English, French (France), Turkish.
No, Junkman is not featured on Apple Arcade.
Yes, you can make in-app purchases to unlock additional features in Junkman.
No, you cannot use Junkman with Apple Vision Pro.

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Reviews of Junkman

  • No more rule checker?

    Edit:

    Author claims there’s a more powerful regex/rule checker in the report UI, but I only have a dialog to reclassify the reported message, and check the URL, as well as to send the report forward. Once I click the mislabeled send report option, it does let me check how that particular message resolves in the ruleset.

    But it does not let me sandbox how a freeform sample message input of my own would resolve (eg something not originally filtered by Junkman therefore not reportable). It would also be incredibly inconvenient to craft rules in the main UI but have to check them from Messages.

    Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be an effective replacement for the standalone rule checker that existed before.

    Original:

    I dislike the smart filter on this app even with aggressive disabled. While it’s very effective at removing political spam, etc, it also overshoots and moves a lot of legit texts to junk—anything from my credit card companies, shipper notices, ticket purchase confirmations, etc, those all get filed away. It’s not the author’s fault iOS doesn’t let you classify them back, but since they don’t the filter being liberal is an issue.

    That said, the author did reach out at one point and suggest I send him texts that aren’t working. The problem is a lot of them have confirmation links or other personal info in them and I can’t.

    So I rely on manual rules only. And at one point this app had the best feature: you could paste in a sample text and it’d run rules on it, so you’d know how the filters would treat it. This was *invaluable* to me, especially since it gave me a hint of what the smart filter would overclassify so I could exclude it with a positive rule.

    Unfortunately, this feature is now gone. So now rules are a crapshoot again. It’s a shame because there are so few of these filter apps that even work. I don’t know why the author chose to move backwards with such a distinguishing feature.

    I’m now looking for another SMS filter, and definitely won’t be paying a subscription fee on this one. Moving backwards is never ok with a subscription.

    Developer Response

    Rule testing screen is now re-added.
  • No more rule checker?

    I dislike the smart filter on this app even with aggressive disabled. While it’s very effective at removing political spam, etc, it also overshoots and moves a lot of legit texts to junk—anything from my credit card companies, shipper notices, ticket purchase confirmations, etc, those all get filed away. It’s not the author’s fault iOS doesn’t let you classify them back, but since they don’t the filter being liberal is an issue.

    That said, the author did reach out at one point and suggest I send him texts that aren’t working. The problem is a lot of them have confirmation links or other personal info in them and I can’t.

    So I rely on manual rules only. And at one point this app had the best feature: you could paste in a sample text and it’d run rules on it, so you’d know how the filters would treat it. This was *invaluable* to me, especially since it gave me a hint of what the smart filter would overclassify so I could exclude it with a positive rule.

    Unfortunately, this feature is now gone. So now rules are a crapshoot again. It’s a shame because there are so few of these filter apps that even work. I don’t know why the author chose to move backwards with such a distinguishing feature.

    I’m now looking for another SMS filter, and definitely won’t be paying a subscription fee on this one. Moving backwards is never ok with a subscription.

    Developer Response

    Rule checker is still there and it is much more advanced. It is now a part of the reporting feature which you can easily access by starting a message report from the Messages app. (You don’t need to complete and send the report for the rule checker to work) Subscription is only for a new database feature that was added in a recent version. It does not lock any features that were already in the app behind a paywall.
  • Hail Junkman! Keep up the good work!

    Junkman is awesome! I did the mistake of giving out my number by donating to a political party. They’ve been ruthlessly soliciting for money, spamming numerous times almost every day, including on Sunday’s. The political spam is impossible to get rid of no matter how many time you unsubscribed, they’re like lemmings, they just keep popping up!! Junkman to the rescue!!! Five stars and I’m happy to support the developer by paying! The political spam Blitzkrieg assault is over thanks to Junkman. Hail Junkman!

    Developer Response

    Thank you very much for your review. It was such a fun read and I am happy to be able to help. 😊