Junkman: AI Spam SMS Blocker

If it doesn’t actually block spam messages, what good is it? If the sender doesn’t know they’re being "blocked", aka filtered, why would they even stop messaging? If Apple doesn’t let these apps actually block messages, what good are they? If spam is just moved to another location on my iPad by keyword and the sender doesn’t know it, what stops the sender from spamming me again and again? Makes Apple complicit in this message blocker app scam. I canceled my subscription immediately. The built-in "Delete message and report junk" already does that for free. At least on my phone, the Number Shield app "answers" these calls by posting "stopped by Number Shield". All I have to do is access the missed calls screen and select BLOCK CALLER. I never get another call from that phone number. Does the sender know they’re being blocked? No idea. But I never get another call from that number ever again. I never set up voice mail on my phone so spammers don’t get to leave me a voice message. That’s good enough for me.

I lose about two man-hours a day, to weeding out SMS spam. That’s about $146K of my time. 730 hours of my life, every year. So, for a $76 lifetime subscription, I got the greatest gift that anyone could give me: Peace, and productivity. I have worked in computers since the 1970s. I have seen a ton of great programs (apps) come and go. Some have tricky installations. Some have great bits, but huge flaws, too. Junkman is not only a breeze to install. Kerem Erkan has thought through, from the perspective of a user, not software engineer, how to solve a pernicious problem with the latest technology, make it elegant, easy, and, most importantly, ADAPTIVE and EVOLVING, to cover future threats. Erkan is the 21st C. Peter Norton. This is an app that EVERYONE should have.

Since experiencing a text bombing incident a few years ago, I have constantly dealt with unwanted junk messages. Shortly after that happened, Google/Android made improvements to their messaging app to filter out these messages. It was quite effective, and I received very few junk messages. Fast forward to this year, and I switched to an iPhone. Unfortunately, Apple's Messages app does not filter out these messages. I was receiving numerous junk messages every hour, which became quite bothersome. I tried a few apps, but they were not effective. Fortunately, I found Junkman, which has fulfilled my expectations. It successfully filters out the junk messages, and whenever it mistakenly filters something important, I simply create a filter for it. The regex functionality is particularly useful for handling more complex scenarios. I even sent a few dollars to the developer because I would have willingly paid for this app.