When comparing it to Hiya’s AI assistant, the only thing this app falls short on is that you have to manually navigate to the app during a call and click a button to record a call in order for it to be transcribed. Hiya does it automatically for you. You think to yourself “I’ll just record the calls that are important to me” but you have no idea how many times it’s convenient to recall an “unimportant call” in hindsight. However, Truecaller takes the advantage over hiya by being only $75 for a year vs hiya being $100, and that’s only for one user. For $100, truecaller gets you a family sharing plan. One thing I think is misleading is where this app says multiple voices to choose from. What they really mean is 2. One generic male and one generic female. With AI tech, it should be easy to generate higher and lower pitched voices, as well as things like accents just like Siri.

I was asked on this app’s site what could be done to improve it. My answer: Something, anything. This app has DONE NOTHING to identify any call. It asks ME whether the unidentified calls I receive, that are shuttled to my VM as they were before installing Truecaller, were from personal or business numbers, whether they were robo calls or scam or spam or fraudulent in any manner. It asks me whether to investigate the source of the call with an internet search. But each and every number that it “researches“ it returns the same result: nothing found. And then this app warns me in an ominous manner that if I block the questionable numbers, they will be blocked from all ways of contacting me, as though after all this, that is an undesired outcome. It also warns me in what feels like a threat that if I should decide to separate myself from the app ( which appears to be a totally useless app) that it may continue to monitor me and report on my call activities even when the Truecaller app is no longer on my device (not in that specific language, but that’s what it’s veiled wording means) it claims it will keep this reporting anonymous. I think perhaps monitoring peoples calls may be its only purpose, since it has not performed its stated purpose one single time in the weeks I’ve had it. And yes, I do have the premium subscription and my iPhone is operating at the 18.2 os. So…What say you?

I need my phone for my small business however, I receive constant spoofed calls to the tune of over 30 per day. In combination with Truecaller, I use my carrier’s app to block known spam calls. Neither my carrier’s app or Truecaller blocks spoofed calls. This is where the Truecaller digital assistant steps in. It is amazing to ignore spoofed calls knowing the digital assistant will connect important calls. The customizable message is professional and real-time integration with callers is helpful. The assistant doesn’t come without quirks however. I constantly receive calls answered by the assistant that bring up a notification in the app but don’t push through to the assistant tab. When that happens, the app brings up push notifications that won’t clear. I have to continually delete the app, reinstall the app, and set everything up again just to clear notifications of conversation recordings (usually hangups) that aren’t pushing to the assistant tab. When addressing this with Truecaller support, they closed the ticket without a solution. After offering support or resolving app quirks, I would gladly rate 5 stars.

I find the app worthless, and the cost to privacy not near worth the price of giving the developers FULL ACCESS TO EVERY SINGLE CONTACT ON YOUR DEVICE. There are two main benefits to this app. One, is to allow you to report a spam caller as a spammer to the developer - Gee Thanks (can you hear the sarcasm dripping in my voice?). Two, allows you to double check a number that has just phone you, to see if other app holders have previously reported the number as a Spammer. Really do not understand the near five star review average, in fact I’m baffled by it. Someone, please explain to me how this is not a worthless app. This is an update to my prior review, which follows.[This issue has been resolved, But the app is worthless.]In order to set up Truecaller on the iPhone, in my case an iPhone 7, to to Settings>Phone>Call Blocking & Identification to turn on Truecaller. The problem is, Truecaller does not appear in the Settings. It appears in my family’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 5. Since Truecaller does not warn about not working with iPhone 7 in its self description in the App Store, I’ve given it one star. I would have given it zero stars, but Apple does not provide the zero star option.