Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
TextMeNot puts a junk-text screener on Android
An Android messaging app that says it screens scam texts, ads, political spam, and suspicious calls on the phone before they reach the user.
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◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- Android users tired of unsolicited texts and calls
- Worth noticing
- The site describes a 37-pattern rule pack covering 917 known junk campaigns, tested against a 54,274-message corpus.
Field notes
The workflow depends on making TextMeNot the default messaging app, which the page says Android requires for message screening. Contacts, replied-to threads, and one-time codes are described as bypassing the screener; other messages are routed to a separate tab where the score and reasons are shown. The site says messages are not deleted on arrival and remain in Android’s message store if the user switches apps.
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