# Bot Sentinel — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Bot Sentinel by Bot Sentinel Inc., rated 4.10/5 from 229 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bot-sentinel/id1551706499/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bot-sentinel/id1551706499.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 172 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 44 ## What do users think of Bot Sentinel? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✅ Identifies bots and trolls effectively - 👍 Filters out problematic accounts - 💡 Useful for verifying account authenticity - 🚀 Improves Twitter experience - 👍 Easy to use interface - ✅ Helps combat disinformation - 👍 Supports community-driven efforts - ✅ Unbiased tool for account analysis - 👍 Saves time by identifying accounts to avoid **Cons** - ⚠️ Accusations of political bias - ⚠️ Concerns about subjective scoring - ⚠️ Reports of silencing certain voices - ⚠️ Some users find it difficult to use - ⚠️ App can be slow at times - ⚠️ Crashes frequently - ⚠️ EULA agreement popup disappears too quickly **Commonly reported bugs** - App keeps refreshing feed and moving user up - Cannot scroll through replies - App crashes frequently - EULA agreement popup disappears too quickly **Most requested features** - Option to open app instead of Twitter app from web browser - Desktop Safari web extension - Dark mode option ## Newest reviews (18 of 50) ### 5/5 — Useful for checking tweet veracity *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* I don't always use it but it's really nice to see ratings of the accounts posting on your timeline. Also has tools to check on multiple accounts at a time ### 5/5 — And invaluable tool for navigating Twitter… *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* There are a lot of malicious accounts out there spreading lies and propaganda. Bot Sentinel has proven itself to be a great way to defend against those and help insure the integrity of Twitter. I can’t for the life of me understand why this is getting negative ratings, though now that I think of it this could be another attack on Twitter itself. These people or bots, wherever they are, are pretending this is a tool for use against liberal causes. Bot Sentinel does NOT discriminate based on content, it just usestats to monitor suspicious activity. No chance, this is another right wing attack, don’t fall for it. ### 5/5 — Great to id troll and conspiracy accounts *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* Bot Sentinel originated as a website to show the tendency of a particular Twitter id to share unreliable content or actively troll other users. I’ve used it for several years and can say that by blocking the users it identifies as highly unreliable I have kept my feed relatively free of jerks and misinformation. Now it’s an app! By logging into Twitter through the app you can automatically see the % age unreliable posts by user. The best thing is by going into trending topics you can easily find new trolls to block. Bot Sentinel has kept me using Twitter. I can see my favorite journalists, scientists, progressive activists and academics in my feed without being distracted by (or dragged into) ridiculous crap trying to bring us down to the lowest level of discourse. I couldn’t be happier. ### 5/5 — Highly recommend for inauthentic bot accounts *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* Any time I see a Twitter account spewing lies, talking nonsense, this is my “go to” method of determining is the person behind the account is real or is it a bot, fake or high jacked account. The negative reviews you are seeing? That tells you this app is very good at doing its job… calling out inauthentic accounts. ### 5/5 — Review of the Bot Sentinel IOS App *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* Bot Sentinel IMHO is the best app available today because of its unbiased utility. In today’s times where everything must be fact checked Bot Sentinel without prejudice does all this for you fighting disinformation and targeted harassment in real time on Twitter. I can’t imagine using Twitter without it. ### 5/5 — App makes it easy to weed out bits and problematic users *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* The little rating Botsentinel appends to Twitter profiles is useful to help identify accounts you don’t need to waste your time interacting with. All of the one star ratings coming in around June 1 are part of a coordinated attack from the right - many of whom Botsentinel would identify as the type of losers you wouldn’t want to engage with. ### 5/5 — Repost: Great App! *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* Before you spend vital emotional energy formulating a response to that jerk on Twitter, use this app to access the bird app! It will let you know if the offending account is problematic (and to what degree) so you can instead report & block. ### 5/5 — A must for a pleasant Twitter experience *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* I’ve been using BotSentinel for as long as they have had plugins for my desktop web browsers, and this app encapsulates that functionality in an app. Clearly identifies potentially problematic accounts, allowing me to be selective about accounts I allow in my feed. Their classification algorithm is excellent, though as is to be expected, any automated system will make errors. However the few accounts I’ve seen that appear to be mis-classified DO often engage in online behaviors that I suspect an algorithm could flag. There are actors on social media with a disruptive agenda and this is a must-have to quickly alert me to problem accounts, allowing me to avoid engaging with & amplifying their disinformation and inflammatory messaging. ### 5/5 — Bot Sentinel is a Great App *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* This app is so good that the MAGAs and Russians have targeted for attack and removal. They are mass reporting and leaving false reviews everywhere they can. This just proves how effective Bot Sentinel is. Just try it for yourself. It’s free and if it doesn’t work just delete. It’s that easy. ### 5/5 — Attack On Bot Sentinel/Tortious Interference *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* A coordinated attack on Bot Sentinel is being made here in an attempt to lower Bot Sentinel's app rating. A group of people (perhaps a group of Russian trolls?) is slandering/libeling Bot Sentinel, which is tortious interference with Bot Sentinel's business operation. Think "Dominion (voting machines) v. Malignant MAGA Slanderers," a lawsuit still proceeding through various courts and settlement negotiations. I'm happy to know there's an app! I've been using Bot Sentinel (primarily by accessing their site on Google)for a couple of years (it seems like many more due to our long national nightmares and many associated pandemic deaths by democide). Bot Sentinel is a valuable tool during this life or death situation. I use it for identifying Russian or other trolls and bots. I like the application so much that I've donated money to support Bot Sentinel. It's a terrific and needed service when you don't know if you're exchanging tweets with a person or something more sinister. It also helps sort out which tweets are just malign propaganda versus the truth. Some bot/troll accounts are dangerous, and, if I have any doubt about what I'm dealing with, I am happy that Bot Sentinel is there. It also helps me determine which accounts to report to Twitter. I hope you can put a stop to this. Never in my 60+ year lifetime have Americans been more in need of protection from malign actors around the world. ### 5/5 — Good App *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* I’ve had zero issues with this application. It’s a useful tool for spotting troll/bot accounts. Perhaps the negative reviewers aren’t using Twitter for it’s intended purpose and they’re upset they’re being labeled as disruptive. It also doesn’t track you or cause the FBI to show up your house, that’s just nonsense. ### 5/5 — Very useful *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* Extremely useful in identifying inauthentic accounts. When new versions come out ratings can temporarily be off but this is quickly adjusted. Most bad reviews come from those who do not want their bot accounts identified. ### 4/5 — Twitter Should Acquire Bot Sentinel *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* I use Bot Sentinel primarily to verify my suspicions that a tweet is by a bot, or human troll or prolific misinformer. It’d be better if it could plug-in to the official Twitter app or Safari; doing so would require support from Twitter or Apple. I deducted 1 star because the app can be slow sometimes. Maybe it’s because Bot Sentinel is primarily funded (AFAIK) by donations like my small $5/month contributions. P.S. Please make a desktop Safari web extension. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Works as advertised and is great for what is for *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* I don’t know why the rating is so low. I see a lot of false and misleading ratings on here with one star. I can only assume the trolls are unhappy this app helps people recognize users who are problematic or trolls. This app does exactly what it is intended to do and works well. ### 5/5 — Excellent information *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* While I see some reviews that are critical, I wonder if some are the very accounts this app is designed to weed out. I have used Bot Sentinel for about two years and have been very pleased to see which accounts show questionable activity. When I do my own research on accounts, the information I find tracks closely with the scores Bot Sentinel gives. This app is a great tool to find and block inauthentic and troublesome accounts. ### 5/5 — Invaluable *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* This app makes the Twitter experience so much more pleasant. I used the browser extension long before the iOS app came out. It’s excellent at identifying troublemakers. So much so that troll farms have targeted it, trying to get it removed. Don’t fall for it! ### 5/5 — Great Product - Highly Recommend *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* I have used Bot Sentinel for 2 years. It has improved with every update. I noticed there are a bunch of one star reviews. Ignore them. Obviously it’s a targeted attack on a great product. ### 5/5 — Great app doing important truth seeking work *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* Ignore the negative reviews. These poor reviews are from trolls trying to discredit an invaluable service. This app identifies bots and helps disclose the real intent of some of the Twitter accounts out there. It’s one way to combat the spread of disinformation, which I wish the social media platforms would take more seriously. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — What is Bot Sentinel? *2021-11-29, version 1.0.2* Just tried Bot Sentinel on Twitter and I’m not impressed. BotSent may have another purpose besides warning the user about bots, which it doesn’t exactly do anyway. Lacking the bot finding function implied in its name, what DOES BotSent do? Noticing the first “Disruptive” label slapped on a Twitter account by BotSent, I reviewed it, but the app analysis I asked for registered a “Normal” finding. Hmmm…I found nothing “disruptive” in the tweets. Zilch. Why identify an account with 2 contradictory terms, I wondered? And where are indicators showing the presence of a bot? One could call the account’s tweets “left leaning”, but that’s all. I couldn’t find signs of automated response nor any other common symptoms of bots. I get the impression Bot Sentinel is more a censorship of “liberal” opinions tool, but can only guess at what the app creator’s purpose really is. I also wonder, “What is done with my interactive data?” ### 1/5 — New update *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* The update is awful and now the owner is ironically on Twitter accusing poor reviews of being bots. I’ve seen many people who I know are real go from having an acceptable rating to a high rating over the past week. Maybe he needs to look into his own system instead of going online and accusing poor reviews of being fake and begging people to leave good reviews. The new system is flawed and needs to be fixed. I’m not being vindictive. I myself have a low rating. I’m a real person just leaving an honest review. ### 1/5 — Yet another unethical tool for elites and boring people *2021-06-02, version 1.0.1* The beauty of Twitter is that blue checks who are terrible people regularly can get dunked on by sassy working folks. The checks don’t like that very much, and I suppose it was only a matter of time before they tried to fight back. Enter bot sentinel. The app creator is a shill for center establishment politics. Totally normal people get flagged as disruptive for having views he doesn’t like. He seems to think posting screenshots of one “disruptive” Biden supporter account disproves this. Seems like a totally honest guy... if you are very stupid. If you find mayonnaise spicy and personify a vanilla ice cream cone you might enjoy this app. But for anyone who actually has a personality, I recommend avoiding it like the plague. ### 1/5 — Scam *2021-06-01, version 1.0.1* The programmer, and I use that term loosely, didn't create an AI or algorithm for this app or its sister site. It's literally WordPress, a spreadsheet, a list of accounts, and keywords. He then assigns a score, not based on if an account appears to exhibit bot like behavior, but, rather, if he approves or not of the content on personal feelings. These scores range from normal to problematic but doesn't distinguish why. In addition, the "programmer" encourages people to report accounts based off his erroneous scoring system, most of whom are real people, essentially attempting to silence them. The past 6 weeks have proved to be strange for this app as people whose scores ranked 8% and normal in April and for all earlier checks, jumped greatly to disruptive or problematic with no change in behavior; some even on hiatus during that time period. When challenged on why, the "programmer" immediately insults them then blocks, stubbornly declaring the site and app work fine. One can only take that to mean that he purposely choose specific phrases certain types of Twitter accounts use in order to encourage others to help remove them from that site. I don't know why or how anyone would take this app seriously. ### 1/5 — Silencing anti Democratic Party voices *2021-06-01, version 1.0.1* We are told that this app was created to identify bots. This may have been true in the past, but it’s new function appears to be silencing critics of the Democratic Party and the US empire. The founder Christopher Bouzy tweeted in 2019 “I am going to enjoy producing Bernie Sander’s attack ads. I am going to make it my mission to prevent him from winning a single primary”. He also tweeted “A bunch of problematic accounts are about to go through some things”. Many of the real human activists that I follow have seen their ratings go from “normal” to “disruptive” or “problematic”. Even the World Health Organization became “Disruptive” in the new algorithm (until they were called out. Now it’s rating is back to normal) Meanwhile, Dem Party leaders Biden, Harris, Pelosi & Schumer all have a perfect (0) score. ### 1/5 — Systematically favors center-right and right-wing accounts *2021-06-01, version 1.0.1* After using Bot Sentinel to analyze dozens of Twitter accounts, it has become clear that this app systematically categorizes politically centrist and right-wing accounts as “Normal” and “Satisfactory” and politically leftist accounts as “Disruptive” and “Problematic.” The app’s creator completely disregards the notion of transparency. He refuses to disclose the criteria used for analyzing accounts and placing them in these purely subjective categories, and there is no appeal process for accounts that receive “Disruptive” or “Problematic” ratings. The creator claims that the purpose of this app is to identify “inauthentic” Twitter accounts. Instead, he uses it to identify and silence Twitter accounts expressing political views he personally disagrees with. He then encourages mass reporting and blocking of accounts he unilaterally deems “Problematic,” which constitutes targeted harassment and is therefore against Twitter’s rules. ### 1/5 — Was decent, now is broken *2021-05-31, version 1.0.1* I found this app useful for filtering out trolls and bots. Unfortunately, as I'm active on political Twitter, a recent change to their rating system has resulted in normal political accounts being classified as problematic. The CEO says this is because the topics discussed are controversial. This means the very accounts I'm on Twitter to interact with are now among those the app would block from my view. For this reason, the app is now useless for me and others who are on Twitter to keep up with politics and world affairs. ### 1/5 — Freeware from RAND (you are the product!) *2021-05-31, version 1.0.1* From the bowels of a think tank for defense contractors, here’s an app that allows you to blacklist entire swaths of humanity online in mere seconds. See smaller, dumbed down versions of the social media spheres you used to love! If there is any tech beyond one guy adding users whose politics he doesn’t like to a list, it’s shoddy. Compromised by extreme political bias. Unless your online world fits in a boring little box on a boring little shelf, avoid BotSentinel like the plague. ### 1/5 — Disappointed with Bot Sentinel *2021-05-31, version 1.0.1* For the past year, I have loved using Bot Sentinel to check for bots. It all changed when the creator became verified with a blue check on Twitter, my average ranking of 20% suddenly changed to 69% overnight. Then I noticed a few people on Twitter I used to interact with had blocked me almost simultaneously. Bot Sentinel used to be a great tool to weed out the bots and fake accounts, but now it is used as a tool by its creator to mass target those who do not align with his political beliefs and block them. His biased app is also a tool for Centrists to blacklist and mass block those who are real, actual, live people who lean to the Left or the Right. Many marginalized accounts, including mine as a person with disabilities, have been listed as "disruptive" and "problematic." The Bot Sentinel app is silencing all of our voices. He is also helping US government officials and staff block their constituents which violates the First Amendment. It is not okay for Trump to block people when he was the POtuS, and it took a court judge to order him to unblock everyone on social media. If it is not okay for a POTUS to block someone, it is also not okay for any other politician or government worker regardless of party affiliation to block their constituents for asking hard questions or demanding better from our government. With all that said, this is why the Bot Sentinel gets zero stars, but Apple does not allow it, so I will make do with one star. ### 2/5 — Almost great *2021-08-08, version 1.0.1* I’ve been using the app for a few days and so far everything seems great except that it keeps refreshing my feed and moving me way up. I’m constantly having to scroll back down, which makes the app almost unusable. The twitter app did the same thing but not nearly as frequently. Load new stuff, sure, but let me keep reading where I’m at. Update: I’m deleting this app. I can’t even scroll through replies. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Better than default Twitter app *2022-06-27, version 1.0.2* I love this app. It allows me to quickly verify whether the person I am dealing with on Twitter is a bot or a real person. If a real person, it allows me to see if they are a troublemaker, problematic, or a normal user. The only thing I wish the developers would add to this is when I am in a web browser like Safari and I open a Twitter link, I wish there was the option to open this app instead of the Twitter app. ### 5/5 — Tremendously useful for filtering out the junk *2021-06-07, version 1.0.1* I’ve used Bot Sentinel in Chrome for a long time, and found it super-helpful for flagging a lot of the garbage (bots, trolls, etc.) on Twitter. Very glad there’s now an app version for the iPad! ### 5/5 — Excellent & easy to use *2021-06-06, version 1.0.1* It flags tweets from bots very effectively so you know which accounts are real. It’s so good at that it’s been attacked by both the extremes on the right and left. No better testament to how effective it is. ### 5/5 — Fight the dark $$$ with Bot Sentinel protection *2021-06-06, version 1.0.1* Easy way to keep your Twitter profile and privacy protected from nefarious bad actors who use hacked or faux accounts to manipulate or harm honest dialogue. Grass root effort to do something about the nation state actors polluting our political environment. ### 5/5 — Useful tool! *2021-06-05, version 1.0.1* I’ve been using the app and website for at at least 2 yrs. I thought it helpful to pick out the bots during the presidential campaign. There a lot of nasty people on Twitter. Thanks for the help. ### 5/5 — First-rate bot spotter *2021-06-05, version 1.0.1* I started using Bot Sentinel to track bot activity in my Congressman’s Twitter feed. It’s handy and the accuracy has improved steadily since it was introduced. Saves a lot of time when you can just drop a screenshot of a bot’s rating into a thread instead of trying to explain to everyone in the thread that they’re a bot or troll. Using their handle is also a convenient way to alert other troll-trackers to problematic accounts, for independent follow-up. ### 5/5 — Bot Sentinel is fantastic *2021-06-05, version 1.0.1* There are all kinds of bogus b.s. scammers leaving spam bad reviews here now. Don’t believe them. BotSentinel is the best way to ID accounts that have irregular activity. Of course BotSentinel is under attack because they are a force for good and truth and the American Way - and that is under attack! BotSentinel rocks!! ### 5/5 — Great App *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* I love Bot Sentinel. It allows me to check accounts that appear to me to be bots. I can then report them as well as let other people know. There seem to be a bunch of recent poor reviews that I’m guessing are from those bot farms trying to shut down the app. Don’t be fooled- they’re just mad because they got caught! ### 5/5 — Must have for Twitter - Don’t go down the rabbit hole with a troll *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* There are so many trolls and bots in Twitter-land, and this app tells you right away who you should be wary of. You can tell what accounts are likely fake/trolls and avoid. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — So helpful *2021-06-04, version 1.0.1* I have been using this service before it was an app and I have always found it very helpful. Mostly it tells you when someone is likely being disruptive and disingenuous and you can choose to engage, or not, accordingly. I like to screencap the trollbot’s report and share it with them, they hate that! Anyway, this app is good. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*