A report released by consumer watchdog, Which? states that over 70% of mobile users in the UK are getting plagued by spam calls – a 30% increase on the previous year. Thus, knowing who’s calling you and keeping a spam filter on your mobile is becoming less of a luxury and more of a necessity.

Presently, over a hundred million users have replaced their old phonebook with Truecaller. Truecaller will completely transform your mobile phonebook experience with a smarter set of features that will improve your daily life. This has been a natural evolution in how people have been using the app.

Once a spam number is blocked, the app will automatically prevent the number getting through to you. The app has a community of 200 million users worldwide. You can even look up numbers within the app to understand if they are Spam or not. In the UK alone, the app blocks over 5.5 million spam calls every year – clocking in over 10 million searches of suspected nuisance numbers.

Many people do not bother saving phone numbers anymore because they rely on the ability of Truecaller to find the right contact information, and identify the name behind a number, regardless of it being saved into their phone. Which is the answer to 'but surely I can just use the block facility on my smartphone?' You could but can you predict the myriad nuisance numbers?

With a stellar 5-star average rating on iTunes, the app can be downloaded for free here.

November 2015