Junk texts.
Screened
before you
see them.
TextMeNot quietly sets aside scams, ads, and political spam on Android and iPhone. Every decision is made on your phone.
Free to start.
Cheap to keep.
On Android, your first week is free, no card needed. After that, screening pauses until you pick a plan, and the messaging app itself keeps working. On iPhone, every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
FreeStart here
$0 to start
Android: your first week, no account, no card. iPhone: a 7-day free trial on any plan.
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Monthly
$3.99 / month
Unlimited screening. Cancel any time in Google Play.
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Yearly
$29.99 / year
Same features, about five months free next to monthly.
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Five years
$99 once
Pay one time, nothing renews. Same features.
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Built on data, not guesses
- 54,274
- messages in the test corpus
- 37
- junk patterns in the current rule pack
- 917
- known junk campaigns recognised on the phone
- 3 MB
- to download, about the size of one photo
You blocked one.
They sent five more.
Blocking numbers is a losing game; the number changes every day. TextMeNot screens on what the message says and how it is shaped, so a new number sending an old scam never makes it to your inbox.
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Free to start. No account.
Final reminder: you have an unpaid toll balance of $6.99. To avoid a $50 late fee pay now at ezpass-ny.top/pay
Why: unpaid toll lure, lookalike link, suspicious domain
We're $50,000 short of our end-of-month goal. Can you chip in $25 before midnight? Reply STOP to end
Why: fundraising language, deadline pressure, opt-out footer
Hi, this is Mike with Apex Roofing. We're in your neighborhood this week doing free roof inspections after the storm. Reply YES to schedule.
Why: home-services solicitation, lead question, first contact
The number is the junk score: how sure the app is, from 0 to 100, with the reasons shown every time.
Three steps.
Then silence.
01
Make it your messaging app
Android only lets your default messaging app decide what you see. TextMeNot is a complete SMS and MMS app, so nothing about texting changes except the junk.
02
Every unknown sender gets checked
Messages from your contacts, threads you have replied to, and one-time codes are delivered instantly. Everything else runs through the screener, on the phone.
03
Junk goes to Screened, silently
No ping, no badge on your inbox. The Screened tab shows what was set aside, its score, and why. Restore anything with one tap. Nothing is deleted on arrival.
It learns your phone.
And everyone else's.
What the message says
Toll lures, package holds, wrong-number openers, job offers, roof inspections, fundraising deadlines. Patterns, not keywords.
What your phone knows
Senders you kept, senders you reported, how often a kind of sender turns out to be junk for you. All of it stays on the device.
What the database knows
Fingerprints of known junk campaigns ship inside the app, and reported domains follow once reporting goes live. No message text ever travels in either direction.
Your rules,
on top.
Write your own filters in My rules. Screen a text, or always let it through, when it comes from a certain number or short code, has any of a list of words, has all of them, or has none of the ones you name. Whole words, upper and lower case, and regular expressions for anyone who wants them.
As many as you like
Each rule has its own switch. Edit, reorder or pause any of them. They run top to bottom, before TextMeNot's own screening, and the first one that matches decides.
Try it before you save
Type a sample sender and text and see right away whether the rule catches it. A regex with a mistake is flagged before it can misfire.
Only on your phone
Your rules never leave the device and never change anyone else's screening. Contacts and conversations you reply in stay untouched unless you open a rule up to them.
Calls too.
Calls from numbers that fail carrier verification, or that sent you junk texts, ring silently and show up in the Calls tab. Everyone in your contacts rings normally. No uploading your call history.
Private by
construction.
Decided on the phone
The screener runs on your device. Your texts stay on the phone unless you turn on the cloud second opinion, which is off by default and whose toggle says exactly what is sent.
Contacts never leave
Contacts are read only to know who to trust. They are never uploaded or stored by the app.
No ads, no ad tracking
No ads in the app, no advertising ID, no crash reporter. The Android app tells Google only that it was opened, so we know which of our ads work. Never your texts, contacts or numbers.
Switch back any time
Messages live in Android's own message store. Set another app as default and every message is still there.
Full details in the privacy policy.
One trade-off
to know about.
Google does not let other apps use RCS chat. While TextMeNot is your messaging app, you send and receive SMS and MMS. Read why there is no RCS.
Stop reading junk.
Free to install. On Android, your first week is on us. On iPhone, start with a 7-day free trial.