She was crying aloud, and my wife sitting on the
passenger seat of the car curiously followed up my phone conversation… They
have separated two weeks ago, but he is calling her three times a day, driving
her mad. She was ready to change the phone number, and she was asking for
advice…
What can I say?
Since my friend has a smart Android phone, there is no need for her to change
the number. There are quite few applications, and I would say, mostly, good
applications, allowing blocking calls from the particular number, or multiple
numbers, you decided to blacklist.
In this post, I
will provide some brief listing of the top freeware Android applications, which
will do for you what personal assistant can do – filter your incoming calls.
- Mr.
Number
Mr. Number is probably one of the most applications for
Android to block unwanted calls and SMSs. It is equipped with really powerful
call blocker. You can block texts and calls from a person, a business, a
prefix, or the world. Block calls and texts from any phone number, any area
code or prefix, all private and restricted calls, or block everyone except your
contacts. You can chose to pick up and hang up on some callers, and send others
to voicemail – decision is yours, and the applications gives you all necessary
tools for that.
Among other distinctive features is automatic reverse lookup
for every number that is not in your contacts, outbound and inbound. So, you
can catch the unwanted person calls even when call is made from unfamiliar to
you number. Note that this Caller ID feature is only available in the US
Rating: 4.4 (from more than 46K reviewers)
Google Play Site: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mrnumber.blocker
- Call Control – Call Blocker
Call Control – Call
Blocker is also belongs to the group of the leading Android applications
on the market for blocking unwanted calls and SMSs. The interesting feature is pre-loaded Community Blacklist, generated
from Community reports and FCC complaints, blocking thousands of spam and
unwanted calls / text messages right out of the box.
The problem that the application switches to Light version
with limited features after 14 days of trial period. In Light version, your
personal blacklist is limited to 3
numbers only.
Rating: 4.3 (from
16K reviewers)
Google Play Site:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flexaspect.android.everycallcontrol&hl=en
- Call Blocker
Call Blocker is another free application for calls and
messages filtering. Among extra features its ability to backup your contact
list to transfer it on another phone, even on another platform as Symbian or
Blackberry. The same disadvantage as in the previous program - some additional
features, as Private Space (ability to hide some icons from the main screen),
for example, are available in the premium version of the program only.
Rating: 4.3 (from more than 10K reviewers)
Google Play Site: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netqin.mm
- Private SMS & Call
Private SMS & Call is a simple and straightforward
application which allows blacklisting and blocking SMSs and phone calls as
firewall.
Rating: 4.3 (from about 10K reviewers)
Google Play Site: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superdroid.spc
- Call Filter
Free version of the Call Filter supports blocking unwanted
phone calls only, so if you need to add SMSs, you will have to migrate to the
PRO version, or choose another program from the list.
Rating: 4.2 (from more than 9K reviewers)
3 comments:
Great apps, for annoying unwanted calls.
I used Call Control for a few months, but I uninstalled it today because it "notifies" me each time *I make a call out*. I find it annoying to tell me that I made a phone call.
I'm trying Mr. Number now, but won't know how I feel until I've used it a few months.
Call blocker is absolute crap! It worked for a few days and simply stopped altogether afterwards
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