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Tech­no­log­i­cal progress brings not only ben­e­fits, but also con­sid­er­able wor­ries. In par­tic­u­lar, spam calls to mobile phones, which today lie in the pock­ets of the vast major­i­ty of the inhab­i­tants of the devel­oped coun­tries of the world.

Accord­ing to Yan­dex^one, 83% of Russ­ian sub­scribers receive one spam call per week. And these are not harm­less pranksters at all, the inter­locu­tor may turn out to be a scam­mer who aims at your mon­ey.

Editor’s Choice

Who Calls

The pro­gram from the Kasper­sky Lab per­fect­ly copes with the task of block­ing spam calls. The anti-spam base is formed by the user com­mu­ni­ty. Spam calls are blocked auto­mat­i­cal­ly.

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More­over, the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the num­ber always works, even if the user is roam­ing with the Inter­net turned off, since the phone data­base is stored in the device’s mem­o­ry. The app also allows you to block entire cat­e­gories of spam calls, but the fea­ture is only avail­able in the paid ver­sion.

Works on iOS, Android plat­forms. Russ­ian lan­guage is sup­port­ed.

Pros and cons

Pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion about the caller, block­ing num­bers from your own black­list, there is pro­tec­tion against SMS phish­ing, the abil­i­ty to block entire cat­e­gories, for exam­ple, call cen­ters

Free ver­sion has ads, no SMS block­ing, high pow­er con­sump­tion

Download:

App Store / Google Play

Top 10 best call blocking software of 2022 according to KP

1. Yandex with Alice

A very sim­ple mul­ti­func­tion­al appli­ca­tion that does not require com­plex set­tings. It is enough to install it, turn on the caller ID and the func­tion of iden­ti­fy­ing the num­ber and block­ing. Yan­dex uses its own data­base of spam num­bers and a data­base of orga­ni­za­tion num­bers with a vol­ume of 5 mil­lion sub­scribers. The main advan­tage is the con­stant updat­ing of the data­base of num­bers. Sup­ports iOS, Android plat­forms. Russ­ian lan­guage is sup­port­ed. There is no SMS block­ing. The app is free, there is no paid ver­sion.

Pros and cons

Cat­e­go­riza­tion of callers by orga­ni­za­tion, indi­ca­tion of sus­pi­cious fraud­u­lent num­bers, ease of use

The data­base is not updat­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly, you need to enter the appli­ca­tion to down­load the data­base, there is no SMS block­ing

Download:

App Store / Google Play

2. “Black list”

A pop­u­lar Android app with sim­ple set­tings. Com­ple­ments the capa­bil­i­ties of the ser­vice built into almost any mod­ern gad­get. Russ­ian lan­guage is sup­port­ed. There is a block­ing of SMS, it must be acti­vat­ed after installing the appli­ca­tion. Calls from unknown and hid­den num­bers are blocked silent­ly and with­out vibra­tion. The tri­al peri­od is 1 month, then the paid ver­sion works with the same fea­tures.

Pros and cons

High speed, can sched­ule to block incom­ing calls (for exam­ple, dur­ing the hol­i­days), SMS fil­ter, save the list of blocked con­tacts to a file

There may be con­flicts when work­ing with some appli­ca­tions. No iOS ver­sion

Download:

Google Play

3.Truecaller

Sup­port­ed plat­forms: iOS and Android. The ani­mspam data­base is sup­port­ed by a com­mu­ni­ty of 250 mil­lion users, and unwant­ed calls and SMS are auto­mat­i­cal­ly blocked, there is a selec­tive block­ing by name and num­ber series. The call his­to­ry records infor­ma­tion about the caller, even if the caller is not in the phone book. It is pos­si­ble to record the con­ver­sa­tion. You can send loca­tion data, emoti­cons, and oth­er per­son­al infor­ma­tion to friends. Sup­ports Russ­ian. The paid ver­sion has no ads. Con­tacts, set­tings, and call his­to­ry are saved to Google Dri­ve.

Pros and cons

Can block num­bers and send SMS to these blocked num­bers accord­ing to the tem­plate, for exam­ple, “busy”, few ads in the free ver­sion, pro­vides full infor­ma­tion about the per­son who called, it is pos­si­ble to back­up the user base, there is inte­gra­tion with Google dri­ve

Does not save the data­base of spam num­bers to the phone’s file stor­age, there­fore, it iden­ti­fies scam­mers only with an Inter­net con­nec­tion

Download:

App Store / Google Play

four. Call Blocker Free

A sim­ple and con­ve­nient pro­gram, but only works on the Android plat­form. Con­sumes lit­tle proces­sor resources and bat­tery pow­er, black­lists num­bers, blocks their calls and SMS, plus calls from unknown num­bers and spam calls. Detects poten­tial scam­mers, backs up con­tacts.

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Pros and cons

Download:

Google Play

5. REKK

Calls and SMS from unwant­ed sub­scribers are blocked. Key words are rec­og­nized in the mes­sages, for exam­ple, “sale”, “dis­count”, “sur­vey”. The num­ber of blocked sub­scribers is unlim­it­ed, and the user receives infor­ma­tion about the own­er of an unknown num­ber. If this is a cer­tain orga­ni­za­tion, then its address, web­site and e‑mail. The base of num­bers is con­stant­ly updat­ed. Russ­ian lan­guage is sup­port­ed.

Pros and cons

Download:

App Store

6. Call Blocker

The pro­gram is only sup­port­ed by the Android plat­form. It has the fastest algo­rithm for block­ing unwant­ed calls, the gad­get’s reac­tion is cus­tomiz­able: you can make the call silent, sim­ply reject it or send a mes­sage to the sub­scriber about the wrong num­ber dial­ing, lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion or stop the own­er’s ser­vice. Phone resource con­sump­tion is min­i­mal. All infor­ma­tion is stored in a sep­a­rate pro­gram with its own log and set­tings. They can be pass­word pro­tect­ed, which is also encrypt­ed. Num­bers are added to the black list from the call log or man­u­al­ly. You can group them and assign block­ing sched­ules. Hid­den and sub­sti­tut­ed num­bers are also deter­mined.

Pros and cons

Download:

Google Play

7. Call Blocker Free — Blacklist

App for Android plat­form only. There is a block­ing of SMS, block­ing by key­words or phras­es is pos­si­ble. Calls from the black list and num­bers of spam­mers and scam­mers avail­able in the data­base are blocked. At the same time, true, and not spoofed, sub­scriber num­bers are record­ed. There are free and paid ver­sions of the app. Russ­ian lan­guage is sup­port­ed.

Pros and cons

Download:

Google Play

8. Sync Me

Works on iOS and Android plat­forms. Caller ID deter­mines num­bers in 107 coun­tries of the world, inte­grates with social net­works. Con­tacts are auto­mat­i­cal­ly pop­u­lat­ed with pho­tos and infor­ma­tion from Face­book, Insta­gram, and Twit­ter. Auto­mat­i­cal­ly rec­og­nizes spam­mers and scam­mers based on data from its own data­base. The Russ­ian lan­guage is sup­port­ed, there is a block­ing of SMS. The app is free, there is no paid ver­sion.

Pros and cons

Download:

App Store / Google Play

9. Hiya

The appli­ca­tion auto­mat­i­cal­ly detects spam calls, auto-dial­ing, calls from adver­tis­ing firms, col­lec­tors and scam­mers. Fights spoof­ingⓘ, that is, by sub­sti­tut­ing false num­bers and caller IDs, deter­min­ing the true num­bers. Spam num­bers are auto­mat­i­cal­ly blocked, the data­base has hun­dreds of mil­lions of spam­mers from all over the world and is con­stant­ly updat­ed. The own­er of the gad­get receives full infor­ma­tion about the unknown sub­scriber, includ­ing his pres­ence in the list of spam­mers or scam­mers. SMS block­ing is sup­port­ed.

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Pros and cons

Download:

App Store / Google Play

10. Mr. number

Only Android plat­form is sup­port­ed. Anoth­er pow­er­ful caller ID from Hiya deter­mines num­bers in most coun­tries of the world. When call­ing from an unknown num­ber, it checks against the data­base of spam­mers and scam­mers, and if it match­es, it blocks the incom­ing call. Also, the appli­ca­tion can warn about spam of sub­scriber con­tacts from the phone book. There is no SMS block­ing. 20 num­bers are blocked for free, then a sub­scrip­tion is required.

Bonus — sup­port for emer­gency calls at the touch of a but­ton. In this case, the sub­scriber receives not only a mes­sage, but also your coor­di­nates.

Pros and cons

Download:

Google Play

How to choose a call blocking software

How to deal with tele­phone spam, told Kom­so­mol­skaya Prav­da Alexan­der Gerasi­mov, direc­tor of infor­ma­tion secu­ri­ty at Awillix.

The most impor­tant cri­te­ri­on in choos­ing appli­ca­tions is the data­base of spam num­bers. It should be updat­ed reg­u­lar­ly and be rel­e­vant for users from Rus­sia or the coun­try in which the sub­scriber lives. It will also be a plus if the appli­ca­tion deter­mines which com­pa­ny the num­ber belongs to.

When choos­ing pro­grams for block­ing calls, you need to pay atten­tion to mod­er­ate pow­er con­sump­tion, as well as the absence of adver­tis­ing or the abil­i­ty to dis­able it in the paid ver­sion.

Popular questions and answers

Sources

1. https://vc.ru/yandex/175419–83-rossiyan-poluchayut-hotya-by-odin-spam-zvonok-v-nedelyu

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