Callblock
The first app to block telemarketers automatically in iOS
Callblock launched on March 27, 2017 with 204 votes, #142 of 3,481 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
What it does
The first app to stop annoying, time-wasting telephone calls and text messages!
You probably love your smartphone – except for maybe the phone part and, in particular, the telemarketers often on the other end of the line. Telemarketers make 148 million annoying, time-wasting calls per day 1 and do-not-call lists (where available) do not work 2 , 3 (and weren’t even meant to for many types of telemarketers 4 ). Callblock is the first iOS app that helps prevent these calls and related text messages. 5 Based on our benchmarking, the app identifies 86.7 percent of telemarketing calls correctly with a false-positive rate of only 1.7 percent on average. 6 Callblock is something of a sequel to our ad blocker, Adblock Fast , which has 3,000,000 users and is rated 4.5 and 4…from callblockapp.com
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