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A private SMS filtering application for iOS

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2022-09-10 · latest 2026-10-26

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  1. For folks on iOS, you can install a spam filter for text messages. i.e. https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer
    comment by scottgr · 2026-10-26 · in Somebody please stop the spam texts
  2. Bouncer ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bouncer-text-messages-blocker/... / https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer ) is a free and open source SMS filtering app that has saved my sanity over the past couple of years. You need to manually…
    comment by martingordon · 2024-10-01 · in Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
  3. iOS exposes an API for this Here’s a local keyword filtering app that works great: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer
    comment by samuelg123 · 2024-10-01 · in Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
  4. …using regexes. It’s been surprisingly effective to filter out messages that contain non-https URLs: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer
    comment by kaveet · 2022-10-24 · in Ask HN: Recent uptick in spam emails and text messages?
  5. …my SMS messages or personal data. That's also the reason is Open Source and available in Github: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer , in case you want to confirm it's safe and build it yourself. ;)
    comment by afterxleep · 2022-09-13 · in Bouncer – Private SMS Blocker
  6. …This app seems to not have the key that'd indicate it's capable of sending anything to a server: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer/blob/master/Bouncer/In... (though, you know, that assumes that the build on the App Store is directly…
    comment by kemayo · 2022-09-10 · in Bouncer – Private SMS Blocker
  7. …was built in to iOS, and it's OSS, free, ad-free, and implemented entirely on the device) Source: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer From the app listing: > Bouncer a simple SMS and MMS filtering app that moves unwanted messages to the…
    comment by troydavis · 2022-09-10 · in Bouncer – Private SMS Blocker