VeroSMS

It’s very exciting to see this app receive an update today as I still use it regularly even though it hasn’t received any updates in about two years till today and I though its developer has changed his focus to a different project but I really like this app due to its simplicity and it just does what it promised just fine and I hope it keeps getting improvements and updates in the future as it is one of the must have apps in this era of messaging spam and scam. best of luck

This is a great concept, but it doesn’t work. I am still getting texts with keywords that are clearly not being filtered.

Does pretty much the opposite of it’s intention. It missed most junk messages and moved legit ones to junk. And there is no way to tell it that a message is legit. You have to go to its settings and try to find a keyword that will let it pass the next time. Not worth the trouble.

The crowdsourced list of acceptable words includes the derogatory slang for a black person. I turned that off immediately but thought the machine learning was a great idea. It blocked a ton of messages that weren’t spam. Overall just does a poor job at automatically filtering your messages. If you put in your own keywords and use only that then I guess this app is for you. Otherwise, I would look elsewhere.

Not that anyone cares but I accidentally signed up for bogus political texts last election cycle.. every day receiving 4-5 stupid texts about Elon, Trump, etc and just no end in sight even blocking all numbers. VeroSMS has finally given me peace and I can use my phone normally again without being bombarded with dumb texts! Try it 🙌

With a little tweaking, I’m finally free from the constant harassment of political and spam texts. I don’t recommend the crowdsourced keywords since that results in over filtering, but I like this app because it preserves your privacy and leverages built in iPhone features to do its filtering.

Can’t get it working on ios18. Texts are coming through as normal.

Bought it and set up hundreds of words in two languages and it filters nothing. Waste of money.

Just signed up yesterday, 100+ texts each day and this app stopped almost 100%. Yrs I had to use each tool offered with in the app! Think is was a total of $6, bit well worth the peace of mind!!! Thank you! John J

The settings call for setting up messages for call blocking but does not have that setting in my iPad