Comparison

SpamGuard vs Lato

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

Head to head
About

SpamGuard

Features
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SpamGuard filters SMS spam entirely on your device โ€” no server, zero network requests, and your message content never leaves the phone. โ€ข Keyword and sender rules with normalization that catches obfuscated spellings โ€ข Smishing link detection: blocks shady links (URL shorteners, suspicious domains) combined with lure phrases โ€” delivery, government, embassy impersonation and more, across 15 languages โ€ข On-device AI: a built-in Bayesian model gives a second-pass verdict on messages the rules can't decide, and personal training adapts to you โ€ข Live test screen: paste a message to see how it gets classified Privacy first: nothing you receive ever leaves your device. Per Apple policy the filter doesn't apply to saved contacts or iMessage. After installing, open Settings > Messages > Unknown & Junk and enable SpamGuard.

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Lato

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์—์–ด์ปจ ํ•„ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์ฒญ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒŒ ์–ธ์ œ์˜€์ง€? ์นซ์†”์€ ์–ธ์ œ ๋ฐ”๊ฟจ๋”๋ผ? ๋ฏธ์šฉ์‹ค์— ๋‹ค๋…€์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋์ง€? ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ์• ์“ฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”. Lato๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•ด์„œ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ์ผ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋‚ ์งœ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋‚ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ง€๋‚ฌ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ก ์•ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‚ ์งœ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘๋ฉด Lato๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค˜์š”. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด โ€˜์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”โ€™๋ฅผ ๋ˆŒ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ง€๋‚œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํ™•์ธ โ€ข ์ž์ฃผ ๋ณด๋Š” ํ•ญ๋ชฉ ์ฆ๊ฒจ์ฐพ๊ธฐ โ€ข ์ตœ๊ทผ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ™•์ธ โ€ข ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ ์ •๋ ฌ โ€ข ์ผ์ˆ˜ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐœ์›” ์ˆ˜๋กœ ๋ณด๊ธฐ โ€ข ํ™ˆ ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ ์ง€์› โ€ข ์œ„์ ฏ์— ํ‘œ์‹œํ•  ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๊ณผ ์ˆœ์„œ ์„ค์ • ์ง‘์•ˆ์ผ, ์†Œ๋ชจํ’ˆ ๊ต์ฒด, ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ, ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฃจํ‹ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ โ€œ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์–ธ์ œ ํ–ˆ์ง€?โ€ ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”. Lato์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก์€ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์•ˆ์— ์ €์žฅ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž…์ด๋‚˜ ๋กœ๊ทธ์ธ ์—†์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Screenshots

SpamGuard4 screens
Lato3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Lato at 15.0 against SpamGuard's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
SpamGuard versus Lato: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpamGuardLato
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDailyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerseihee hansunkyong lee

In-app purchases

None

SpamGuard

No in-app purchases

None

Lato

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpamGuard free?
SpamGuard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lato free?
Lato is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SpamGuard or Lato have ads?
Neither SpamGuard nor Lato shows ads.

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