VeroSMS vs Smart SMS Filter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VeroSMS
This app filters unwanted SMS messages by using user-defined keywords and crowdsourced regional data. It prioritizes user privacy by processing all data locally, ensuring messages remain confidential. Offers both free and premium features for enhanced spam blocking.
- User-defined keyword filtering
- Crowdsourced regional keyword data
- Local message analysis for privacy
- Auto-block texts with URLs
- Block texts from unknown senders
- SMS Spam Reporting (India)
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VeroSMS is a SMS Spam filter app focused on maintaining users privacy, it filters spam texts using keywords that you set and using crowdsourced data of keywords that other people in your region set. This way none of the SMSs are sent to any server for analysis and your messages remain confidential. # Free Features: - Unlimited keywords for blacklisting. - Unlimited keywords for whitelisting. - Auto-block texts containing URLs from unknown people. - Only blocks texts from people not in your contact list. - SMS Spam Reporting to TRAI (India only). # Premium Features: - Machine learning based filtering. - iCloud sync for any keywords you add. - Auto-filtering of spam based on keywords that other people in your region add. - Basically does all the work for you. Just unlock premium and forget, all crowdsourced keywords will be periodically updated in background. For info on how to enable SMS Spam reporting extension open this in your browser: verosms.com/reportspam Privacy Policy and Terms of Service: https://verosms.com/privacy
Smart SMS Filter
This app helps you manage unwanted messages by filtering incoming texts based on keywords. It automatically sorts messages from unknown senders into a junk folder, ensuring you don't miss important communications from contacts.
- Keyword-based message filtering
- Automatic junk message sorting
- Predefined spam filters
- Custom filter creation
- Junk message folder access
- Contact message protection
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Smart Filter provides a way to detect and filter incoming messages. Set keywords for a simple way to filter out unwanted messages while providing greater control over your incoming texts. Messages from your contacts will never be marked as junk, so you will not risk missing any important messages. Filtering criteria & methodology: • All incoming messages from unknown contacts will go through the filtering algorithm. When Smart SMS Filter matches a message to a filter, that message will be marked as junk. • You will always have access to messages marked as junk through your junk folder in your Messages app. Additional features: • The app comes with 13 predefined filters based on the most commonly used keywords spammers are using. • Add as many filters as you wish by tapping the Add Filter icon. • Easily remove filters by tapping the Delete Filter button.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smart SMS Filter at 100% against VeroSMS's 54%. Smart SMS Filter also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). VeroSMS's advantage is ratings volume (306 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. VeroSMS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Smart SMS Filter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Smart SMS Filter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VeroSMS has 306 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of VeroSMS's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smart SMS Filter's.
VeroSMS ships an update every 3 weeks, Smart SMS Filter fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VeroSMS | Smart SMS Filter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (306 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 306 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tanmay Sonawane | Pontera Solutions Inc. |
Customer experience
VeroSMS
Smart SMS Filter
Bugs and requests
VeroSMS
Reported bugs
3 issues- Filtering not working as expected despite keyword matching
- Junk folder persisting even after app uninstallation
- Crowdsourced keyword list containing inappropriate terms
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to organize messages into categories
- Option to block phone numbers along with keywords
- Removal of badge notifications for filtered messages
Smart SMS Filter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
VeroSMS
- Premium Features$4.99
Smart SMS Filter
No in-app purchases
Questions
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