Comparison

YouMail vs Textkiller

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

YouMail

Block unwanted spam calls and texts, identify unknown callers, and protect your online privacy. This app helps you regain control of your phone number by reducing your digital footprint and screening suspicious calls.

Highlights
  • Spam call blocking
  • Robocall blocking
  • Caller ID for unknown numbers
  • Scam text protection
  • Privacy scan for exposed info
  • Voicemail protection
  • Second phone number
Features
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Protect Your Phone Number. Block Spam Calls. Communicate with Confidence. Your phone number is your digital identity. Every day, scammers, robocallers, spoofed numbers, scam texts, and data brokers use your phone number to reach you or expose your personal information online. YouMail protects your phone number by blocking spam calls, identifying unknown callers, screening suspicious calls, protecting your voicemail, and helping reduce your online exposure so you stay in control of who can reach you. Answer your phone with confidence, not uncertainty. Join more than 13 million people who trust YouMail to block scammers, protect their privacy, and take back control of their phone number. 1. Stop Spam Calls & Robocalls Stop unwanted calls before they interrupt your day. Powered by one of the nation's largest spam intelligence networks, YouMail automatically blocks spam calls, robocalls, spoofed callers, telemarketers, scam callers, and other unwanted calls while helping legitimate callers still reach you. Know who's calling before you answer with powerful Caller ID and Call Screening. Free Features • Spam Call Blocking • Robocall Blocking • Caller ID for Unknown Callers • Scam Text Protection • Privacy Scan to identify exposed personal info • Voicemail Protection Need even more protection? Upgrade for Advanced Protection •Screen unknown calls • Force spammers to prove they are human • Ensure only good calls ring through • Second phone number keeps work and private life separated Advanced Call Screening asks unknown callers to identify themselves before your phone rings, helping you avoid scammers while making sure legitimate callers can still reach you. 2. Protect Your Privacy Online Your phone number shouldn't be easy to find. Data brokers collect and sell your personal information, making it easier for scammers, robocallers, identity thieves, and unwanted callers to reach you. YouMail helps you: • Discover where your personal information is exposed with Privacy Scan • Remove your information from participating data broker websites (Plus) • Reduce your digital footprint • Make it harder for scammers to find your phone number The less information available online, the more control you have over your privacy. 3. Keep Your Phone Number Private Not everyone needs your personal phone number. Whether you're shopping online, selling on Marketplace, dating, traveling, applying for jobs, running a business, or signing up for new services, YouMail helps you protect your privacy with a second phone number. Stay in control by: • Using a second phone number for work or personal use • Keeping your real number private • Screening unknown callers before answering • Separating your personal life from your public life Protection that Fits Your Life Perfect for: Protecting your family from spam calls and scams A professional who can't miss important calls A small business owner managing customer calls A gig worker protecting your personal number Someone tired of spam, robocalls, and unwanted interruptions YouMail helps you answer the calls that matter while blocking the ones that don't. Why Millions Trust YouMail Millions of people trust YouMail because it combines spam protection, caller identification, online privacy, voicemail protection, and second phone numbers in one simple app. Whether you're blocking spam calls, protecting your privacy, removing your personal information from the web, or keeping your phone number private with a second number, YouMail gives you the tools to communicate with confidence. Because your phone should connect you with the people you want to hear from, not the ones you don't. Download YouMail today and discover why more than 15 million people trust YouMail to protect their phone numbers, privacy, and peace of mind.

About

Textkiller

This app automatically blocks unwanted spam text messages, protecting you from scams and telemarketing. It offers customizable filtering options, a constantly updated global block list, and a privacy-first approach to keep your inbox clean and your personal information secure.

Highlights
  • Automatic spam text elimination
  • Global block list updated constantly
  • Predictive SMS blocking algorithm
  • Customizable blocking (keywords, email, number ranges)
  • Block and Allow lists
  • Report spam to train algorithm
  • Privacy-first algorithm
Features
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Eliminate 99% of spam text messages with Textkiller, and live spam-text free®! Textkiller is the new spam text blocking app that's creating a world without spam texts. With Textkiller, you're instantly protected from more than 100,000,000 known phone scams, and counting! Textkiller's intuitive and easy-to-use features ensure you get all the texts you want, and none that you don't. Textkiller's innovative text blocking technology has already been featured by The New York Times, NBC, Wired, Engadget, Vice, and many other publications. Here are some of Textkiller's highly-reviewed features: Eliminate 99% of spam texts automatically With Textkiller, you're instantly protected from more than 100,000,000 known phone scams - and our global block list is updated every minute. Textkiller's predictive SMS blocking algorithm is also able to determine if an incoming text is spam in less than 0.01 second, keeping you safe from emerging spam texts too! Control who can text you Get good texts only. Textkiller's Block and Allow lists ensure the text messages you want are never blocked, removing all distractions from unwanted and dangerous spam text messages. Customize your text blocking Only Textkiller gives you fully customizable text blocking to ensure you block spam texts on your terms. Other apps only let you block individual phone numbers or text messages, but with Textkiller's keyword-based filtering, email address blocking, and phone number range blocking options, you can fully control how we block your spam texts. Train Textkiller To Get Smarter Report spam texts to Textkiller to help our algorithm get more precise at blocking your spam texts, and ensuring you always get the texts you want. Reporting spam texts also helps to protect other Textkiller users from receiving the same scam! Turn on the Extreme Blocking function, and Textkiller will filter all messages coming from senders outside of your contact list. Keep your money safe from losses to fraud Textkiller prevented 800 USD per year in losses to text scams, according to data reported by the Federal Trade Commission. Privacy-first text blocking Textkiller's patented text blocking algorithm immediately removes any identifying information before making a decision on blocking a text. Your privacy, and personal text messages are always safe with us. Relax and live life spam-text-free® In our busy lives, spam texts are an unnecessary and annoying distraction. Textkiller cleans up your iMessage inbox from annoying spam or telemarketing texts so you can have a bit of peace back in your day. That's what it means to live life spam-text-free. Here's what your spam-text-free life looks like: - No distractions: You can trust when a text notification goes off, it's a message that's meant for you. - Total control: Has your number fallen into the hands of annoying telemarketers or marketing lists? With Textkiller, you decide who can or can't text you - without having to deal with the hassle of trying to unsubscribe. - Zen: While Textkiller can't eliminate all of your daily distractions, we do our best to give you one slice of distraction-free paradise by ridding your phone of annoying spam. Built by people who hate robocalls, spam texts, and respect your privacy, Textkiller will help you take control of who can and can’t text you. We're empowering everyone with a smartphone to create a spam-text-free world. But, we can't do it without you. Try Textkiller free today! Textkiller is free to download. A subscription is required to use the product. Once your trial ends, your subscription will automatically renew. You can cancel at any time. Live life spam-text-free®! Terms of Service: https://www.teltech.co/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.teltech.co/privacy.html California Privacy Notice: https://teltech.co/privacy.html#section-8 *** According to the FTC.

Screenshots

YouMail4 screens
Textkiller4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Textkiller at none against YouMail's shown. YouMail's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and chart position (#142 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. YouMail sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Textkiller sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

YouMail holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: YouMail has 100K ratings behind it against 13K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of YouMail's written reviews are positive against 37% of Textkiller's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

YouMail ships an update fortnightly, Textkiller every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
YouMail versus Textkiller: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYouMailTextkiller
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (100K ratings) — better4.3 (13K ratings)
Positive reviews42.8% of reviews — better36.9% of reviews
Number of ratings100K — better13K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#142 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size228 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYouMail, Inc.Mosaic S.r.l.

Customer experience

YouMail

All ratings99,695 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews470 reviews
Positive42.8%
Neutral8.1%
Negative49.1%

Textkiller

All ratings13,000 ratings
Positive82.0%
Neutral5.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews320 reviews
Positive36.9%
Neutral6.6%
Negative56.6%

User reviews

YouMail

From 100K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app, blocks spam calls
  • 👍 Customizable greetings and voicemail
  • 🚀 Effective at reducing spam calls
  • 👍 User-friendly and easy to set up
  • 👍 Helpful for older family members

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Syncing issues, need to re-download app
  • 🐛 Clumsy and not fully seamless
  • 🔋 Drains battery and adds charges
  • 🐛 Blocks wanted calls from certain numbers
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns, accesses contacts

Textkiller

From 13K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Stops spam texts
  • 👍 Filters messages effectively
  • 💡 Keyword blocking
  • 🚀 Works well when functioning
  • 👍 Useful for reducing spam

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App not working after updates
  • 🐛 Issues with premium features
  • 🔍 Concerns about privacy and data access
  • 🐛 Inconsistent performance
  • 💰 Expensive subscription

Bugs and requests

YouMail

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Syncing issues with spam list
  • Inability to deactivate or reactivate service
  • Blocks wanted calls from certain numbers

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to block spam texts
  • More granular control over blocked numbers
  • Improved integration with phone's native features

Textkiller

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes during setup
  • Keyword blocking not working as expected
  • Junk messages still getting through
  • Issues contacting support

Requested features

4 requests
  • Sync blocked list across devices
  • Automatically delete junk messages
  • Better integration with Apple Watch
  • More transparency on how filtering works

In-app purchases

9 purchases

YouMail

Subscriptions9
  • YouMail Plus (inactive)$9.991 Month
  • YouMail Plus2 variants$9.991 Month
  • YouMail Plus FT7 Days trial$9.991 Month
Show 6 more
  • YouMail Essentials$14.991 Month
  • YouMail Solo (inactive)1 Month trial$17.991 Month
  • YouMail Complete$24.991 Month
  • YouMail Plus$79.991 Year
  • YouMail Plus FT7 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • YouMail Essentials$144.991 Year
9 purchases

Textkiller

Subscriptions9
  • Textkiller Pro$4.997 Days
  • TextKiller Pro with Free Trial7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Monthly Premium Protection7 Days trial$5.991 Month
Show 6 more
  • Monthly Premium Protection$5.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium Protection7 Days trial2 variants$7.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium Protection7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Textkiller Pro$69.991 Year
  • Textkiller Pro with Free Trial7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium Protection7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is YouMail free?
YouMail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Textkiller free?
Textkiller is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, YouMail or Textkiller?
YouMail is rated higher. YouMail averages 4.7 out of 5 from 100K ratings, while Textkiller averages 4.3 from 13K ratings.
Do YouMail or Textkiller have ads?
YouMail shows ads; Textkiller does not.
Which is updated more often, YouMail or Textkiller?
YouMail ships an update fortnightly, and Textkiller every 2 weeks. Most recently, YouMail was updated on November 11, 2026 and Textkiller on November 10, 2026.

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