Photo Protector vs SMS Filter+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Photo Protector
Securely store and organize your private photos with this app. Features include private galleries, folder management, and FaceID protection for enhanced privacy. Easily import, view, and export your images.
- Secure folders for organization
- Private gallery with import/export
- Smart thumbnails for fast loading
- FaceID protection
- Photo export options
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Photo Protector is a simple and secure tool to keep your private photos safe. With folder management, smart thumbnails, export options, and FaceID support, you can organize and protect your images with ease. Key Features: • Secure Folders – Create, edit, and delete folders to organize your photos. • Private Gallery – Import from camera or album, view in full screen, zoom, and delete with ease. • Smart Thumbnails – Automatically generate fast-loading thumbnails for a smooth browsing experience. • Photo Export – Export selected photos back to your album or share them safely. • FaceID Protection – Add an extra layer of security to keep your photos safe. Protect your memories, manage them effortlessly, and keep them under your control with Photo Protector.
SMS Filter+
This app provides professional SMS filtering to block spam and unwanted MMS messages. Customize filters based on phone numbers, keywords, or regular expressions to automatically sort messages. Enjoy uninterrupted focus by silencing junk messages without notifications.
- Automatic message classification
- Customizable spam filters
- Filter by phone number, text, keywords, regex
- Block unwanted MMS messages
- Silent junk message notifications
- Privacy-focused processing
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This is a safe, efficient and professional SMS filter. You can customize your own filters to help you filter spam and MMS messages from unknown phone numbers. What it does: Automatically classify your messages, filter junk messages, let you avoid being disturbed by spam during work, rest or when you are on your phone(such as gaming or reading). Privacy matters: All verification activities occur in a closed and secured process provided by iOS, without the need to connect to the network throughout, and SMS Filter+ will not read, collect or tag your messages. Customize your filters: Filter your messages like a pro, support check phone numbers, text, containing multiple keywords, start/end with keywords, match with Regular Expression and other advanced features. How it works: When a message comes, SMS Filter+ will always go through your Allow, Transaction and Promotion filters. Once there is any filter made a match, messages automatically classified into the corresponding folder. If those filters can not make a match, then SMS Filter+ will go through your Junk filters, message will be filtered if it matched as spam. Notifications & Badge If a message classified as Allow, Transaction and Promotion, you will still get notifications and unread badge on the Message app icon, if a message filtered as spam, you won’t get any notifications and there is no unread badge.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Photo Protector at Free against SMS Filter+'s $0.99. SMS Filter+'s advantage is rating (4.2 vs 2.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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
Photo Protector is free to download; SMS Filter+ costs $0.99 up front. Photo Protector sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SMS Filter+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
SMS Filter+ holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SMS Filter+ has 216 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Photo Protector's written reviews are positive against 58% of SMS Filter+'s.
Photo Protector ships an update every 5 months, SMS Filter+ every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Photo Protector | SMS Filter+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.2 (216 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.1% of reviews | 57.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 216 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 文睿 李 | 奕才 杨 |
Customer experience
Photo Protector
SMS Filter+
In-app purchases
Photo Protector
- Full Version$0.99
SMS Filter+
No in-app purchases
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