# Gertrude Blocker — user reviews > 28 indexed App Store user reviews of Gertrude Blocker by Jared Henderson, rated 4.90/5 from 116 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gertrude-blocker/id6736368820/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gertrude-blocker/id6736368820.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 112 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (15 of 28) ### 5/5 — Thank you!! *2025-10-07* I am so tired of the garbage the world is forging down our kids. Thank you for an easy quick solution. ### 5/5 — Finally! Get it for your kids! *2025-09-12* 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! ### 5/5 — Great app 👍 *2025-07-22* Blocks Gifs and more unwanted features that apple content restrictions have forgotten to block. Thank you for creating this app! ### 5/5 — Thank you!! WhatsApp issue clarified. *2025-07-21* 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!! **Developer response:** 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. ### 5/5 — Every parent needs this *2025-07-11* 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. ### 5/5 — Only app that combats apples loopholes *2025-07-06* 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! ### 5/5 — GIF Blocker! *2025-05-31* Finally a way to block GIFS!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! ### 5/5 — THANK YOU!!! *2025-04-25* Saved my young son from looking at porn through the maps app. You are a lifesaver. ### 5/5 — Thankful *2025-03-06, version 1.3.0* Works awesome! Thanks! ### 5/5 — THANK YOU *2024-11-01, version 1.1.0* Thank you for creating this app. This is a life saver ### 5/5 — Great App *2024-10-28* Fixes screen time loop holes ### 5/5 — Finally!! *2024-10-26* Finally some help for parents! Ever since the iOS 17 update, there has been no way to block inappropriate GIFs. I have emailed Apple, written paper letters, posted on Apple message boards but to no avail. Thank you for creating this app! ### 5/5 — So happy for this! *2024-10-24* Apple Screen Time has some helpful features, but there are a few glaring holes in its capabilities that allow kids to easily access adult images in really easy ways. Gertrude Blocker plugs the holes the Apple missed, and finally gives parents the ability to put a safe phone in their kids’ hands. Thanks for making this!! ### 5/5 — Porn-free kids’ phones. Thank you! *2024-10-24* We try to keep our kids’ phones in a state where they are unable to view porn. Apple does a good job giving parents controls but they left a couple of holes! This is the only app that I know of that fills in those holes. Thank you!! ### 5/5 — Does what it says *2024-10-24* Finally, a way to block #images GIFs in the Messages texting app! A glaring hole in Screen Time for over a year. Works perfect. 👍 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Scam *2025-07-17* 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! **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — Didn’t work! *2024-11-19, version 1.1.0* Downloaded & my child’s phone could still access gif images 😡 ### 4/5 — WhatsApp blocked *2025-07-06* I believe it blocked my WhatsApp entirely, is that possible? **Developer response:** 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. ### 5/5 — FANTASTIC ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *2026-07-08* 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! ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-07-08* 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. ### 5/5 — Thank you very much! *2026-07-08* 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. ### 5/5 — Delightful and powerful *2026-07-04, version 1.8.3* This app is the bees knees ### 5/5 — You. Guys. ROCK!!! *2026-05-27, version 1.8.2* 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! ### 5/5 — Excellent tool *2026-03-11* 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! ### 5/5 — Not easy… but worth it!!! *2026-01-01* Probably the best app out there for those wanting to walk in sexual purity ## Most praised reviews (3 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it! *2025-11-15* 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 **Developer response:** 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. ### 5/5 — Amazing app to a very real need! *2025-10-31* 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. ### 5/5 — Fills a needed gap *2025-10-13* Thank you so much for creating this app that blocks #images --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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