Hi everyone, this is my first ever post even though I’ve been reading here for a while. (Quite stressful isn’t it?)
My question is fairly simple, but I haven’t found a satisfying answer/alternative; I’m looking for a “Caller ID” app, it’s the only thing I miss about the stock Android. I receive many phone calls and most aren’t in my contacts.
I’m looking for something that looks-up some database and feeds me the available information on who’s calling me.
Side note; I’m aware of some spam-blocking apps, it’s not exactly fulfilling my need.
TrueCaller is the only one I know of that appears to work. But to get it to work well on GOS is a question and I haven’t tried it on mine but no harm in trying it yourself.
Of course, Play Services will likely be needed and TrueCaller itself is not a privacy friendly app so use that at your own risk (as one would with any app).
I’m aware of TrueCaller, I kind of keep it as a “last resort” in case I don’t find anything else. I tried the app and kind of hated it; bloated, overwhelming UI, ads, paywalls, privacy nightmare, etc.
I will keep it in my pocket in case I really don’t find anything else and decide then if it’s worth the trouble.
Yes, the app is horrible as you describe. A nightmare. If it were me, I would rather learn to live with the issue or even go as far as to change my phone number once for good measure so everywhere you may have your number shared or leaked can no longer reach you and then you can go about only selectively sharing them to trusted sources and entities.
Realistically, you only need your real number shared with your bank and your employer. Everywhere else, you can use your jmp.chat number if you can manage.
That’s my overall suggestion and what I would do. I kinda already do this now.
jmp.chat is excellent. Works better via the Cheogram app so that’s the XMPP client I recommend. Check it out and give it a try for a couple of months and see how it works for you.
I’m starting to think I’ll just build a simple (not very good) caller-id myself by poking OpenStreetMap’s API and looking up the phone number, trying to identify the business calling me…
I don’t believe there to be any privacy friendly option here but by design that isn’t possible if you literally provide all phone numbers calling you to a random lookup service.
