SpamSentry vs DataFastView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SpamSentry
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SpamSentry is the smart spam call and message blocker that protects your peace. Built with Apple's CallKit and MessageFilter frameworks, it delivers system-level blocking that works even when the app is closed. KEY FEATURES: Community Blocklist Automatically sync with a curated database of known spam numbers. Updated regularly to catch the latest robocall campaigns and scam operations. Custom Blocklist Add specific phone numbers to your personal blocklist with custom labels. Manage your blocked numbers with ease using search and swipe-to-delete. Area Code Blocking Block entire area codes known for spam activity. One tap to silence all numbers from suspicious area codes. Contact Protection Never accidentally block someone you know. SpamSentry automatically protects your contacts from being added to the blocklist. Temporary Pause Expecting an important call from an unknown number? Pause blocking for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour with one tap. Extension Health Monitor Real-time monitoring of your CallKit extension status. Get alerts when the extension needs attention and repair it with a single tap. Number Search Quickly check if a phone number is in the blocklist. See whether it was blocked by the community database or your custom rules. Dashboard Stats Track how many calls have been blocked with daily and total statistics. See your protection status at a glance. PRIVACY FIRST: SpamSentry does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. All your information stays on your device. No analytics, no tracking, no ads. HOW IT WORKS: 1. Download SpamSentry from the App Store 2. Enable SpamSentry in Phone Settings under Call Blocking and Identification 3. Enable SpamSentry in Messages Settings under Unknown and Spam 4. Sync the community blocklist 5. Enjoy a spam-free phone experience SpamSentry works at the system level using Apple's CallKit framework, so blocked calls are silenced before your phone even rings. Message filtering uses the IdentityLookup framework to automatically sort junk messages into a separate list. Take back control of your phone. Download SpamSentry today.
DataFastView
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Make your Home Screen look the way you always wanted it to. DataFastView is a collection of twenty-four Home Screen widgets designed to look like they shipped with the phone — and to go transparent, so your wallpaper shows through every one of them. No subscriptions: the app is free, three widgets are free, and each page of widgets is a single purchase that is yours forever, on every iPhone signed in with your Apple Account. PICK A PAGE, MAKE IT YOURS • Free — Holidays for your country, the calendar list, and Storage and network. For everyone. • Status Portal — a large sci-fi control panel with the time, the weather, your month, your next events and reminders, and your battery. Two palettes. • Weather and time — the sky now and the next three hours, today by the hour, the week ahead as soft curves, and a glass clock that looks like the Lock Screen’s. Temperatures in °C or °F, by your region. • Calendar — a large calendar with your events, reminders and the weather on one panel, the next events as cards, today’s date, and the whole month. By day and by night. • Productivity — ten shortcuts to your apps with their real icons, a four-tile version at icon size, the time with two shortcuts under it, and three world clocks that show whether it is day or night there. • Mail — unread messages from two accounts, on small or medium cards, in the colour you choose. Works with any IMAP account, Gmail included. • Health — this week’s steps as a curve with today’s count, and your average distance over the last 21 days. • Dashboards — Calendar Dashboard: the time, the weather, your month, what is coming up and your steps on one board of carved panels, with a button to show or hide your reminders. EVERY WIDGET CAN BE TRANSPARENT Each widget has a switch: draw its own background, or let your wallpaper through. Light and dark follow your phone, and every widget’s options are together in Settings. AND THE REST OF THE APP • Status — free space, link quality and a real speed test: download, upload, latency and jitter, with charts. • Dynamic Island and Lock Screen — fourteen live metrics, or a phrase of your own, in the colour you pick. • Control Center — your shortcuts one swipe away. • Passwords — a generator for strong passwords, ready to paste. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your calendars, reminders, steps, distance and mail are read on your device and shown on your widgets. Nothing is sent anywhere. Mail passwords live in the Keychain and never leave the phone. In English and Spanish. Made for iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DataFastView at Free against SpamSentry's $3.99. SpamSentry's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
DataFastView is free to download; SpamSentry costs $3.99 up front. DataFastView sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. SpamSentry asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | SpamSentry | DataFastView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Update frequency | — | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 贺 周 | Moscoso Pacheco, Gonzalo Juvenal |
In-app purchases
SpamSentry
No in-app purchases
DataFastView
- Buy me a Coke / A small thank-you$0.99
- Dashboards$1.99
- Weather and Time Widgets$2.99
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- Status Portal Widgets$3.99
- Calendar Widgets$3.99
- Productivity Widgets$3.99
- Mail Widgets$3.99
- Steps and Distance Widgets$3.99








