Junkman – Smart SMS Blocker is the most powerful SMS filtering app for iOS. It can classify incoming messages as normal, junk, transaction or promotion.
Junkman primarily uses a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm called Smart Filter, that is trained with thousands of messages in English and Turkish languages. This results in an artificial intelligence which can detect the language of a message and then check and classify the message contents. The Smart Filter can differentiate between normal (conversations etc.), transaction (bank OTP messages, shipping information, doctor appointments, etc.) and junk (promotional, gambling, unsolicited, spam etc.) messages instantly. It treats all promotion messages as junk.
Junkman also has a special algorithm called Aggressive Filter to detect and filter the most invasive junk messages without the need for the Smart Filter.
In case you would like to override the classification of the Smart Filter or the Aggressive Filter, you can add rules to one of the Safe, Junk, Transaction and Promotion lists in the app.
If you don’t receive English or Turkish messages, and you only receive messages in other languages, you can disable the Smart Filter completely and manage messages using the rule lists. Aggressive Filter will remain active in this case.
The rule lists let you write much more powerful rules than most of the competing apps. They can work on both the sender or the content of a message and they accept any input including regular expressions (Regex). They are also simpler to manage than other apps.
If you think the Smart Filter did not classify one or more messages correctly, you can report them from the Messages app for review. The more wrong classifications you report, the better the Smart Filter gets!
Features of Junkman:
- Smart Filter: a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm that can classify any message in English or Turkish as normal, junk or transaction
- Aggressive Filter: A special algorithm to directly filter the most invasive junk messages without the need for the Smart Filter
- Scam and phishing filter: A special filter that can be updated immediately using instant notifications when necessary
- Rule lists, supporting any input, including powerful regular expressions (Regex)
- Under Attack Mode: A mode that can help with text message attacks
- Reporting Extension support to report messages that you think were not classified correctly by the Smart Filter
- Configuration testing that lets you check any message to see the classification in real time
- iCloud sync support for sender lists to sync information between your devices
- Support for both iOS and iPadOS devices
- Silences notifications for junk messages on Apple Watch
- Detailed VoiceOver design for better accessibility support
- Dark mode support
- Interoperability with Begone – Spam Call Blocker and Directory
Junkman must be enabled as a message filter under Settings -> Messages -> Unknown & Spam in order to start classifying messages.
Optionally you can enable the reporting extension under Settings -> Phone -> SMS/Call Reporting in order to be able to report messages.
Junkman is available on the App Store for all countries except China.
Privacy Policy
Junkman works completely locally on your device. It does not collect, store or transmit any data you enter into it. It does not collect, store or transmit any information from the messages it filters. Junkman respects the privacy of its users with utmost importance.
Privacy Policy for Reporting Extension
Any message you decide to select and report to Junkman using the Reporting Extension in Messages app will be reviewed manually. The messages that are used to train the Smart Filter will be kept indefinitely, while the others will be completely removed from server records. Any message that was reported accidentally or deliberately containing personal or sensitive information will be removed immediately and will not be used. You can also contact me for immediate removal in case of need.