Truecaller: Caller ID & Block 4+

Don’t use tracks the heck out of you

So yes free but looks at what’s its tracking ? why does it need to track so much . Ive seen other apps that are free that don’t track no where near has much . So there selling your information . Got to be . And the fact the stating that there tracking you and every one is downloading it needs to know there selling your information . That’s how there making there money instead . Nothing in this life is free ! remove this app asap . It doesn’t need to track purchases location and many more , why would it need to !

Filters no Spam, but it does important texts and calls!

This app has actually caused me no end of issues.

Let me be clear I am a free user, and I will not update to being a paid user; if you cannot perform the basic functions well how are you expected to perform the higher functions well.

After having this crap on for months; only today did I realise there was a junk category in my messages and within there was countless messages from my Doctors, HMRC and other important messages, absolutely NONE of which were spam, and ACTUAL spam was getting through so I assumed the spam filter wasn’t working.

Evidently it was but in the complete wrong way.

I am flabbergasted at how terribly implemented this was, actually filtered the most important messages and let the spam come through.

I’ve also uninstalled it for family members and lo and behold they had the same issue, a bunch of texts flooded in that they needed, this was after updated the filter lists manually on multiple occasions so this was not the issue.

And if you tell me this can be fixed with a premium feature: jog on. This is a basic feature implemented which should just work or not be a feature at all, you can’t break our phones and then say I need to pay your prices to fix your app.

At the end of the day, use your block feature, or use phones built in spam lists if it has the feature, this app is janky is hell and cannot recommend it.

Decent but not consistent.

In this day and age it’s almost required to get an app to block spam calls. And for most part this app does the job. Now I do not pay for subscription as I can’t quite tell what the actual benefit for it is. Especially as I do have some issues with inconsistencies in the non paid version. For one example. Yesterday I had a spam caller. Firstly the app did not notify me of it as such. But after a quick google search and app search alike it was confirmed as spam. Secondly. Once I deduced it was spam I immediately blocked the number. Thinking nothing else of it. Problem is. Today I had calls coming through from the exact same number. So the app whilst for most part does the job well. It isn’t water proof and even leaks through numbers you’ve actively blocked. This isn’t the first time it’s happened and most likely not the last.

Developer Response ,

Hi!
You are protected from spam in Truecaller, this is limited to only detect the Top spammers in your area/region. How do I block them? There are two simple ways to do so: From the call log > Tap on the ! > Scroll down to find "Block & Report". To manually add a number to your personal block list > Open Truecaller > Tap on the Spam ID tab in the lower right-hand side > My block list > tap on the plus icon in the upper right-hand corner > add number. //KL Truecaller team