Block Spam Texts | Dont Text vs Text Spam Block
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Block Spam Texts | Dont Text
This app automatically filters unwanted spam text messages by sending them to a dedicated junk folder. It offers customizable filtering options, including blocking by email addresses, keywords, and phone number area codes, ensuring you only see important messages.
- Automatic spam text filtering
- Junk folder for spam messages
- Block texts from email addresses
- Customizable keyword filtering
- Block by phone number area code
- Privacy-focused message handling
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Block. Spam. Texts. Dont Text creates a junk folder in your messages app and sends spam texts to the junk folder for you. With Dont Text installed and enabled on your device, you never get notifications from annoying spam texts and spam is automatically sent to your junk folder. Dont Text makes it easy for you to block spam texts on your device by getting started it in minutes. Block Spam Texts from Email Addresses Start blocking all spam text messages that come from email addresses. Turn on the toggle to Filter Email Senders in the app and Dont Text will block all incoming spam texts from email addresses. Customize Filtering Dont Text allows you to customize how you block spam texts. Inside the app, you can create keywords to filter text messages from unknown senders. Create a blocking keyword to filter any text containing that keyword and send the text to junk. Use allow keywords to prevent important texts from accidentally ending up in junk and make sure you never miss an important text. Block Texts By Phone Number Area Code Block unwanted texts by filtering by area code. Add an area code to the app and all texts from that area code will be sent to your junk folder. Privacy Dont Text does not save your contacts or texts. Dont Text only checks text messages from unknown senders to filter spam. Dont Text cannot access text messages between you and your contacts, or any texts that you send. Dont Text can only check incoming messages from a number not saved in your contacts and this information is never stored. When a text is filtered, Apple restricts the information Dont Text uses to block spam and your phone number or personal information is never shared with us.
Text Spam Block
Block unwanted spam text messages using advanced AI detection. This app keeps your data private by processing everything on your device, ensuring your messages remain secure. It filters political spam, job offers, fraudulent messages, and business outreaches.
- AI-powered spam detection
- On-device data processing
- Blocks political spam
- Filters job offers
- Detects fraudulent messages
- Blocks business outreaches
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Block unwanted spam text messages with advanced AI-powered detection and filtering. All data is kept local and on-device, your text messages stay private. No fees, no subscriptions, no data uploading, no advertising, no tricks. Your phone should have come with this built-in, and now it's there. Currently supports blocking political spam, job offers, fraudulent messages, and business outreaches.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Text Spam Block at 83% against Block Spam Texts | Dont Text's 43%. Text Spam Block also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). Block Spam Texts | Dont Text's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 17). On price, 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. Block Spam Texts | Dont Text sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per year. Text Spam Block asks for nothing beyond the download.
Text Spam Block holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Block Spam Texts | Dont Text has 1.1K ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Block Spam Texts | Dont Text's written reviews are positive against 83% of Text Spam Block's.
Block Spam Texts | Dont Text ships an update every 2 months, Text Spam Block every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Block Spam Texts | Dont Text | Text Spam Block |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.1K ratings) | 4.5 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.7% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tyler Kennedy | Benjamin David Poiesz |
Customer experience
Block Spam Texts | Dont Text
Text Spam Block
Bugs and requests
Block Spam Texts | Dont Text
Reported bugs
3 issues- Restore function not working
- Incompatible with certain devices/OS versions
- Subscription issues
Requested features
4 requests- Group text blocking
- Ability to filter by sender
- Customizable filtering options
- Integration with other messaging apps
Text Spam Block
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Block Spam Texts | Dont Text
- Worry Free Filtering$6.991 Year
Text Spam Block
No in-app purchases
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