SpamHound SMS Spam Filter

No more spammy SMS and MMS. SpamHound filters your inbox from scam and fraud.

Redwerk · com.redwerk.spamhound

Not rated yet 50K+ downloads v1.4 14.6 MB Android 4.4+ PEGI 3 · Everyone

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At a glance

Latest version: v1.4 (6)
Updated: May 19, 2020 (6 years ago)
APK size: 14.6 MB
Requires: Android 4.4+ (API 19)
CPU support: Any (no native code)
Category: Productivity (app)
Permissions: 23 (8 sensitive)
Website: spamhoundapp.com
Developer contact: [email protected]
Privacy: Developer's privacy policy

About this APK

SpamHound SMS Spam Filter is an app by Redwerk in the Productivity category. It has no native code, so it runs on any Android processor.

It asks for 23 permissions, 8 of them sensitive, including read contacts, read sms and send sms.

Description

From the listing uploaded by “split-store”.

Make your messaging comfortable with the new functional and intuitive SpamHound app! Chatting is an essential part of our everyday life so it should be fast, convenient and secure. With SpamHound as your default messenger, you can receive all of those and even more! Send text messages, manage your conversations, share multimedia content. Furthermore, get the incredible advantage using intelligent spam blocking option to stop receiving an advertisement, spam and unwanted messages on your device. Be in touch and manage your incoming SMS and MMS in an easy way! Features: - send, receive and archive SMS messages - use flags and labels - share photos, videos and more - block SMS spam in the Blacklist - prevent blocking in the Whitelist - no internet connection required - unlimited quantity of filters Blacklist and Whitelist Using SpamHound as your default messaging app you have reliable protection from undesired incoming content. Create spam filtering rules in Blacklist to block messages from certain senders or those, that contain specific words, phrases or digits. All messages that fly under the Blacklist rules are stored in the Spam tab. Prevent blocking of important content in Whitelist, which prioritizes the messages that comply with its rules so that they don’t get filtered out. You will never lose precious mail as all SMS from the Whitelist displayed in your inbox. Spam filtering For more fine-tuning filtering of your rules, you can apply Contains, Starts with, Ends with, Equals modes to the sender, and body of messages. Extended options as regular expressions and wildcard are also available to use. Check the statistics of rules worked and messages filtered by week, month and year. As well, besides creating rules manually, activate predefined rules in the Settings tab to block SMS from short numbers and those that contain links.

Security & authenticity

Security rating: Trusted

Signing certificate

Certificate with Google's generic name Google Play App Signing gives the keys it manages this name, but anyone can put it in a certificate, so this alone proves nothing.

Store checks and file details

Developer signature verified May 19, 2020
Antivirus scan passed Jan 10, 2021
Signed byCN=Android, OU=Android, O=Google Inc., L=Mountain View, ST=California, C=US
Signing certificate (SHA-1)16:84:48:37:54:63:BE:89:16:45:6B:9A:B9:08:FD:2D:58:3A:53:51
File MD5421b0332de53e1e9c9977033510036a5
Uploaded by “split-store” Gold tier · 24,358 followers · uploading since 2019

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Permissions (23)

SpamHound SMS Spam Filter requests 23 permissions, 8 of them sensitive.

Display over other apps Sensitive android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW
Read contacts Sensitive android.permission.READ_CONTACTS
Read phone status and identity Sensitive android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE
Read sms Sensitive android.permission.READ_SMS
Receive mms Sensitive android.permission.RECEIVE_MMS
Receive sms Sensitive android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS
Send sms Sensitive android.permission.SEND_SMS
Write contacts Sensitive android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS
Change configuration android.permission.CHANGE_CONFIGURATION
Change network state android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE
Change wifi state android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE
Control vibration android.permission.VIBRATE
Download without notification android.permission.DOWNLOAD_WITHOUT_NOTIFICATION
Full network access android.permission.INTERNET
Google Play install referrer com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE
Prevent the device from sleeping android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
Push messaging (app-defined) com.redwerk.spamhound.permission.C2D_MESSAGE
Read profile android.permission.READ_PROFILE
Receive push notifications com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
Run at startup android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
Run foreground services android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
View network connections android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
Write sms android.permission.WRITE_SMS

Required hardware & features

Basic touch input android.hardware.faketouch
Telephony (SIM) android.hardware.telephony
Wi-Fi android.hardware.wifi