# VeroSMS — user reviews > 157 indexed App Store user reviews of VeroSMS by Tanmay Sonawane, rated 3.60/5 from 306 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/verosms/id1269693537/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/verosms/id1269693537.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 176 · 4★ 16 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 83 ## What do users think of VeroSMS? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Effective spam filtering - 👍 Customizable keyword blocking - 🔒 Preserves user privacy - 💡 Leverages built-in iOS features **Cons** - 🐛 Inconsistent performance - 🐛 Overfiltering of legitimate messages - 🐛 Inability to restore filtered messages - 🐛 Crashes on setup **Commonly reported bugs** - Filtering not working as expected despite keyword matching - Junk folder persisting even after app uninstallation - Crowdsourced keyword list containing inappropriate terms **Most requested features** - Ability to organize messages into categories - Option to block phone numbers along with keywords - Removal of badge notifications for filtered messages ## Newest reviews (10 of 157) ### 5/5 — Sanity saver! *2025-03-12, version 1.5.2* With a little tweaking, I’m finally free from the constant harassment of political and spam texts. I don’t recommend the crowdsourced keywords since that results in over filtering, but I like this app because it preserves your privacy and leverages built in iPhone features to do its filtering. ### 5/5 — Se vc aprende a usar é muito útil. *2025-02-24* Ótimo ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2024-11-15, version 1.5.2* Bought it and set up hundreds of words in two languages and it filters nothing. Waste of money. ### 5/5 — Stopped immediately *2024-10-22, version 1.5.2* Just signed up yesterday, 100+ texts each day and this app stopped almost 100%. Yrs I had to use each tool offered with in the app! Think is was a total of $6, bit well worth the peace of mind!!! Thank you! John J ### 1/5 — Cannot set up *2024-10-11, version 1.5.2* The settings call for setting up messages for call blocking but does not have that setting in my iPad ### 5/5 — Wizard!! *2024-09-29, version 1.5.2* Brilliant approach using keywords to filter unwanted text /SMS messages. You can tailor (delete)the crowdsourced white list words to send ALL unwanted messages to junk!! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t do what it says it does *2024-09-24, version 1.5.2* I blacklist “stop=end” I still get texts with “stop=end” Deleting to try and find a working app. ### 5/5 — Works perfectly, one of my most important apps *2024-09-04, version 1.5.2* I previously wrote that I was having trouble with diminished performance. Found out that I needed to make a particular setting change in my iPhone. I did so and now it’s working perfectly. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Works great for me *2024-08-23* I’ve been using this app since October of 2020, I paid $3 for it and have found it works great for me, it honors my blacklist and my whitelist. I’m grateful especially during political spam season it’s so nice not to get interrupted constantly but to go leisurely review my spam folder from time to time and block every number in there. I find this app well worth the $. ### 5/5 — Saved my sanity *2024-08-22, version 1.5.2* I cannot express how frustrated I was with spam texts and political campaign texts before I found this app. I went from at least six junk texts per day to fewer than six per year! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Does nothing *2026-02-06, version 1.5.3* Added in two words to block, the next 3 texts I received had both words. This app does nothing. It has no real function. ### 1/5 — stopped working *2026-01-21, version 1.5.3* Just doesn’t work anymore. Messages don’t even get filtered. Worthless ### 1/5 — Doesn’t do what it claims to *2025-09-02, version 1.5.3* Even with adding words to the filter I’m constantly getting stupid recruiting text. And the app doesn’t catch them even though they contain words I’ve added to the filter. And when I enter the text into the “test” box, it says it will block it. But it never does. Not worth paying for premium if it doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-06-05, version 1.5.3* This is a great concept, but it doesn’t work. I am still getting texts with keywords that are clearly not being filtered. ### 1/5 — Not worth it. *2025-05-22, version 1.5.3* Does pretty much the opposite of it’s intention. It missed most junk messages and moved legit ones to junk. And there is no way to tell it that a message is legit. You have to go to its settings and try to find a keyword that will let it pass the next time. Not worth the trouble. ### 1/5 — Blocks everything you don’t want it to *2025-05-19, version 1.5.3* The crowdsourced list of acceptable words includes the derogatory slang for a black person. I turned that off immediately but thought the machine learning was a great idea. It blocked a ton of messages that weren’t spam. Overall just does a poor job at automatically filtering your messages. If you put in your own keywords and use only that then I guess this app is for you. Otherwise, I would look elsewhere. ### 1/5 — iCloud dump *2025-05-01, version 1.5.3* Appears to dump data in iCloud that can’t be deleted via Settings > Account > iCloud > Storage. E even when app is not allowed to save to iCloud and when the app is uninstalled. Reinstalling increases the data stored in iCloud. What this data is is unknown. Reported app to Apple via reportaproblem ### 1/5 — Stopped working *2025-04-24* After a few weeks the sms blocking stopped working **Developer response:** Try disabling and re-enabling the filter. 1. Open Settings.app 2. Search for Messages > Unknown & Spam. 3. Untick and Tick VeroSMS again. If it’s still not working, please email support@verosms.com and I’ll be glad to help you! ### 1/5 — Não funciona *2025-04-06* Coloquei as palavras-chaves e o app não funcionou, continuo a receber os sms **Developer response:** Try disabling and re-enabling the filter. 1. Open Settings.app 2. Search for Messages > Unknown & Spam. 3. Untick and Tick VeroSMS again. If it’s still not working, please email support@verosms.com and I’ll be glad to help you! ### 1/5 — Can’t get it to work *2025-02-22, version 1.5.2* Can’t get it working on ios18. Texts are coming through as normal. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Thumbs up *2025-12-21* This app has saved me from so much annoyance. I’ve been able to filter out almost all unwanted political ads that were coming in non stop for quite some time. Initially it also caught some needed txts but I was able to use the filtering system to correct. I tried one other app prior that promised to filter for political ads and didn’t work at all, so I was skeptical. But this one definitely works and for a reasonable Price! ### 5/5 — Muito bom *2025-12-17* Funcionou bloqueando anúncios indesejáveis ### 5/5 — Got my phone back under control *2025-11-13* This app is so easy to use. I’ve been mercilessly bombarded with political texts that will not stop - it should be a crime. I was at my wits end. This app filters custom phrases in texts into your junk folder. You don’t even see them and the political texts can rot in purgatory where they belong. Thank you so much for this app!!! Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — ใช้ได้ดีกับภาษาไทย *2025-10-20, version 1.5.3* ดีมาก ### 5/5 — Great app for cutting down on junk *2025-10-01, version 1.5.3* This app has saved me from seeing 100s upon 100s of junk messages from the political machine asking for money. It does need updating to work correctly on iOS 26 though. ### 5/5 — THE app deserving of highest praise *2025-09-13* Really useful to totally filter out unnecessary sms sent by govt/companies so that only the most important ones actually needed are visible and not cluttered. The default options are great, but I do recommend taking some time to fully dial in custom whitelists/blocklists as per your needs. It’s really powerful and ensures you only get notified of the messages that you dictate, and toss all the noise into the junk tab. ### 5/5 — Got my IPhone back! Why did I wait so long? *2025-08-21* After making many contributions to political causes, I got “rewarded”with endless spam. This simple app got rid of them all! It’s very simple to use and has very powerful features. I like that I can use my own key words, like “Congress” or “ActBlue” and block (black list) or allow (white list) any text that has the words or terms I create. It is very customizable and has virtually enabled me to get my message app (which had been hijacked on my iPhone) back and usable again. Highly recommend. 5 stars. ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-07-19, version 1.5.3* Free works great best app filters out all unwanted texts based on keywords ### 5/5 — Filter texts by keyword *2025-07-04, version 1.5.3* This app is fantasic and has filtered tons(!) of political spam. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Political Spam Protection! *2025-03-21* Not that anyone cares but I accidentally signed up for bogus political texts last election cycle.. every day receiving 4-5 stupid texts about Elon, Trump, etc and just no end in sight even blocking all numbers. VeroSMS has finally given me peace and I can use my phone normally again without being bombarded with dumb texts! Try it 🙌 --- *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 2026-08-19.*