Filtrate - Notification Filter Apk

Filtrate - Notification Filter Apk

Latest version 3.1
28 Mar 2016

Older Versions

Apk Infos

Version3.1
Rating5.0/5, based on 1 votes
Size‎53 MB
Requires AndroidAndroid 2.3+ (Gingerbread)
Author's NotesWhat if every time your phone rang it was important?

About Filtrate - Notification Filter APK

Filtrate - Notification Filter APK Download for Android
Filtrate - Notification Filter APK Download for Android

Description

Your phone is an amazing device to make yourself accessible. It's a shame you keep it on silent all the time. Filtrate is a smart filter which silences notifications that are not important to you. It allows you to be accessible but not distracted.

The goal of Filtrate is to allow you to leave your ringer on without it constantly distracting you.

How does it work?
During a filtration session (while the filter is enabled), Filtrate combines machine learning and several heuristics to classify your notifications as either urgent, spam and normal.

Urgent notifications are shown and play your ringtone. Normal notifications are saved for your review when you finish your filtration session. Spam notifications are hidden entirely.

Machine Learning
We use a Bernoulli Naive Bayes text classification algorithm which is commonly used for spam detection and is particularly effective for small text documents like notifications. If you're interested, read more about it here.

When you finish a filtration session and review non-urgent notifications you can swipe left and right to mark a notification as urgent or spam.

The machine learning filter only considers the last 500 notifications so your filter stays relevant.

Heuristics
The most powerful heuristic Filtrate uses is @username. When you receive a notification with @yourusername it will automatically be treated as urgent. This makes it easy for people to flag messages as important.

If you mark 2 notifications with exactly identical content as urgent or spam, Filtrate will treat any future identical notifications as urgent or spam. This is an effective way to handle automatic notifications.

You can long press a notification while reviewing to mark all notifications from that app as urgent. This is useful for business apps such as Hipchat or your work calendar.

Developer's note:

I use Filtrate everyday to manage my incoming notifications. Filtrate knows that Hipchat notifications are from work and Facebook Messenger notifications can wait. My friends know I use the app and use @matt to reach me if something is urgent.

Before using Filtrate, I would keep my phone on silent. I'd miss phone calls and important messages. Now whenever my phone buzzes I'm actually excited to look because I know it's going to be something I care about.

I've also noticed my phone battery lasts longer now that I only turn on the screen when I actually have an important notification.

I hope Filtrate de-clutters your inbox and frees you as much as it has me! I would love to hear any feedback at any time!

How to install Filtrate - Notification Filter APK on Android phone or tablet?

Download Filtrate - Notification Filter APK file from ApkClean, then follow these steps:

Update Phone Settings

  • Go to your phone Settings page
  • Tap Security or Applications (varies with device)
  • Check the Unknown Sources box
  • Confirm with OK

Go to Downloads

  • Open Downloads on your device by going to My Files or Files
  • Tap the APK file you downloaded (com.reactiverobot.filtrate-v3.1-ApkClean.apk)
  • Tap Install when prompted, the APK file you downloaded will be installed on your device.

Older Versions

3.1 (1)53 MB

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User's Reivew

5 ★Great app, clearly in early stages though. It works great once you put some work into it. However, I'd really like some features to make it easier to use. Features that would greatly help are a per-app ignore list, making the filtered list available even when the service is running (rather than making us stop it every time to see something), and data export and import to allow me to retain my data even when I migrate to another device. That isn't to belittle the fact that it works great still!
1 ★this app doesn't even work.. got a refund. give people a trial first.
3 ★Should be more granular. It tries to make waaaaaay too many decisions for you. Why can't I selectively filter messages on my own? It likes to turn on Do Not Disturb for you out of nowhere, also. Annoying. Also, a free trial would've been nice. Uninstalling, shouldn't have bought it. Just gonna write my own app since Google Play's offerings are all so lackluster.