Women And Apps (#WAPPS) - Truecaller

Name: Truecaller

Truecaller is the world’s largest verified mobile phone community, dedicated to helping users make the right call. Truecaller’s dynamic community is always evolving and is committed to maintaining the integrity of the community by crowdsourcing information to help identify spam callers and identify unknown callers.

Story behind with the development of the App - 

Two students tired of not knowing who is calling them, came up with a solution and built the app. Those two students are the co-founders of Truecaller - Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam. Right now Truecaller has 40 employees including many women. 

App introductory video

Key features : The app and all mentioned features are free!

Caller ID - Helps you identify who’s calling before answering *

Block calls - Gives you access to our extensive top spammers list and allows you to quickly block calls from all numbers reported as spam

Reverse number lookup for both mobile and landline numbers – Truecaller even finds numbers to pre-paid phones

Integrated with Twitter for boosted search results and communication options to Tweet and Follow a person directly from Truecaller

Keeps your phonebook beautiful and up-to-date with photos and more from the Truecaller community, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google

Enables you to create your own Truecaller profile with information you want

There is a Premium paid upgrade option for users who want to see who has viewed their Truecaller profile, to get rid of ads, and to send contact requests for people they find by name.

How to get it: Available for free in app stores on Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Symbian s60, Series 40, Official Website Search and Facebook app Search.

Download Link

Free Search on Web

Free Search on Facebook app here

Testimonial

“Best app-simply awesome. Easy to use, best app to identify who is calling and block unwanted calls.” – Tanu Z, Delhi