Do you use Truecaller?

Do you use Truecaller?

  • Yes

    Votes: 248 57.8%

  • No

    Votes: 157 36.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 24 5.6%
  • Total voters
    429
Chockmeister-J said:
Truecaller app has its Pros and Cons, lets jump into it...

Pros, it can block spam callers for you. Cons, if you're depended on you network provider for certain services via sms or USSD, it might pick it up as a spam caller and blocks sometimes important calls and messages.

Pros: Call recording feature on the Gold version is available
Cons: As soon as an update is made available or/and when you're being forced to do so, that feature is MIA after update, and suddenly surprised you being available again with one of the future updates.

II can go on and on...

Last but not least...if you gave me your number and I save it as 'Poephol' without you knowing and you don't even use Trucaller, everybody who enters your number on Tcaller will see you name as Poephol...
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That's not true at all. Truecaller picks the name saved most.
 
I have it but am struggling with the bloat and lag. I used the Google one for a while but it wasn't as affective.
In the build up to the Christmas period I was getting several spam calls a day, its worth having those blocked automatically.
I even got one from Discovery while sitting with my dead father. (I have pretty much every Discovery product)

It annoyingly blocks sms's from my bank so have to turn the inbox feature off.
I still like that I can see that its a delivery when they phone so another Plus.

I don't care about the legality. The law should protect us from those that use the numbers not those that gather them.
 
Willie Trombone said:
I don't have a subscription or even use it and asked them to remove my number, now it shows up as it should on everyone's phone...
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Until someone else with TrueCaller recommends a different name for you, like I did with a colleage. I didn't think it would show up, but it did. So he had to install TrueCaller again to change it.
 
Nerfherder said:
I have it but am struggling with the bloat and lag. I used the Google one for a while but it wasn't as affective.
In the build up to the Christmas period I was getting several spam calls a day, its worth having those blocked automatically.
I even got one from Discovery while sitting with my dead father. (I have pretty much every Discovery product)

It annoyingly blocks sms's from my bank so have to turn the inbox feature off.
I still like that I can see that its a delivery when they phone so another Plus.

I don't care about the legality. The law should protect us from those that use the numbers not those that gather them.
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TrueCaller is a bit spammy, even the paid version.

Constantly harassing me to make it the default messaging and dialler. I do not want to. Initially I thought this was an Android issue, but it seems not.
 
backstreetboy said:
Well it's the only way it can do it's job.
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Not so. It works as spam notification app, not dialler. It needs various permissions which might make some people uncomfortable, but that's how it works.

EDIT: I also do not want it to be my default SMS app, I don't need spam protection for messages.
 
Tried it once or twice, but because it doesn't integrate properly you land up having to use the right buttons or suffer constant message about which device you want to use. Just never seemed to work properly and became more trouble then its worth. Easier to just not answer calls from unknown numbers.
 
Phone and Messages in one app!! Will never use the native apps again!!
 
backstreetboy said:
That's not true at all. Truecaller picks the name saved most.
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I met someone a couple of months ago, bear in mind, I've never saved that person's number on my phone, Truecaller picked it up as some awful name the Uber driver saved it as.
1. So how can Truecaller picks that person's as a name saved most?

2. Does everyone that person gives the number to save it as the Uber driver did?

3. Do you want to tell me if I saved that number as that person's name, it will change only on my phonebook but will still stay as the name the Uber driver saved it as in Truecaller's database?
 
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