Gertrude Blocker User Reviews

Name: Gertrude Blocker
Rating: 4.9 (116 reviews)

Gertrude Blocker

Jared Henderson

🔧 Utilities

Customer Experience

Positive experience92.9% of reviews

Neutral0.0% of reviews

Negative experience7.1% of reviews

~ Based on 28 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Gertrude Blocker Safe?

Gertrude Blocker appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Gertrude Blocker is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 116 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

96.6% of ratings point to a safe experience

0.0% of ratings suggest some concerns

3.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 116 App Store ratings for Gertrude Blocker.

Is Gertrude Blocker Legit?

Gertrude Blocker appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Gertrude Blocker is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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FANTASTIC ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This app is amazing! I’m so grateful someone cares enough to create it to help us protect our kids. It was shocking the images young children could access through gifs once Apple took away the option to delete them. If I could give this creator more than 5 stars I would. I highly recommend!

Rebekah (grateful mom)

a month ago

Great app

This is a great app for protecting children’s phones from the loopholes apple has continued to neglect in their parental controls. I recommend the desktop app as well! Beyond functionality it is exceptionally well made for ease of use.

Drumroll1981

a month ago

Thank you very much!

Thank you for making an app that makes sense and meeting a need that no one else has met yet. Gertrude addresses the most aggravating issues I had with ScreenTime, like how to give my kids access to Messages without also handing them open access to #images, a database of gifs for an adult audience. It has allowed me to give my kids the benefits of the iPad with much greater peace of mind. I am so thankful for this and hope you are able to keep updating Gertrude as ongoing software updates roll out potential new issues that Gertrude can address.

hollydVb

a month ago

Delightful and powerful

This app is the bees knees

kiahjh_

a month ago

You. Guys. ROCK!!!

A must have app for families and single adults. Gonna use this for my kids some day. Jared explains everything via the app and YouTube tutorials. The blocker works great, thank you so much!

Kyle Sumel

2 months ago

Excellent tool

Using this for my kids’ iPhones with Apple Configurator and screen time controls has made the phones far safer as the kids learn to use them responsibly. Many thanks to the developer for a great and needed tool!

sraragan

5 months ago

Not easy… but worth it!!!

Probably the best app out there for those wanting to walk in sexual purity

Jesus Is My Reward 510!

7 months ago

Love it!

Im so happy about this app!! The only thing is it blocked all but three gifs. Two for sure need to be blocked and cant figure out how to get them blocked

Arp0708

9 months ago

Response from developer

This is probably due to the fact that a few images had been viewed previously and are cached. Did you do the "clear cache" step? If not, the latest version of the app allows you to run this step again, after install. That said, it does not always clear every single GIF, even when run again. If you contact us through our support/contact page, we can give you more options to try to get rid of the final cached images.

Amazing app to a very real need!

Thank you so much for helping us keep our kids safe. An answer to prayer. The app does just what I need it to do in conjunction with screen time.

An answer to prayer

9 months ago

Fills a needed gap

Thank you so much for creating this app that blocks #images

Anniesbananies7134

10 months ago

Thank you!!

I am so tired of the garbage the world is forging down our kids. Thank you for an easy quick solution.

HackerFam

10 months ago

Finally! Get it for your kids!

It works and is easy to set up. Wish Apple restrictions didn’t limit it to certain devices on family plan, but that’s Apple’s fault and not Gertrude’s. Get this app and use it - Apple should have built all of these capabilities into ScreenTime, tbh, but they didn’t so kudos to Gertrude for making this and for making it free. Highly recommend!

TMTM226

a year ago

Great app 👍

Blocks Gifs and more unwanted features that apple content restrictions have forgotten to block. Thank you for creating this app!

Gjurxinnkhd

a year ago

Thank you!! WhatsApp issue clarified.

Question: I believe it blocked my WhatsApp entirely, is that possible?

Update: thank you!you were correct. My WhatsApp was not blocked because of Gertrude, rather because I signed into an iCloud child’s account that age was younger than 13 years old.

Thank you for the great customer support!!

Gjvrxinnkhd

a year ago

Response from developer

Gertrude is not able to completely eliminate apps. This user reached out to us through our contact form, and after a little back and forth, she realized that the disappearance of the WhatsApp app was caused by an age setting in Screen Time, not by Gertrude.

Scam

After I download this app. All my info on my child’s phone was compromised. Even my “secured screen time password was changed”. Please don’t download. It’s not safe!

Don’t Download Scam/Hacker

a year ago

Response from developer

This comment is completely false. This did not happen. What they describe is literally impossible on iOS. No app is able to compromise all the info on the phone, Apple does not permit any app to read or touch the data from any other app. And it's literally impossible for an app to change the screen time passcode, or do any of what this person describes. Furthermore, the entire codebase of Gertrude Blocker is open source on GitHub, anyone can read the source code and see that there is nothing malicious in it whatsoever. I'm a programmer and a dad who built this app for my kids. Don't believe this comment.

Every parent needs this

This app is meeting a great need since Apple has not allowed parents to properly protect their children. Thank you Gertrude Blocker. With the latest iOS updates, parents can no longer disable the gif images in texting. This app allows parents to decide if their child is not ready for that feature yet, and disable new images from loading. I wish past images could be unloaded easily with the app as well, but I greatly appreciate the protection from seeing future images. Thank you.

Apple280

a year ago

WhatsApp blocked

I believe it blocked my WhatsApp entirely, is that possible?

Gjvrxinnkhd

a year ago

Response from developer

Only app that combats apples loopholes

This is the only app I’ve been able to find that successfully blocks #images GIFs on the messaging app, notability, group me, ect! It’s amazing I can’t rave more. I can give my kids more access to things knowing there’s no backdoors to harmful content!

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