Number Guru App for iPhone Review
It is a fact that spam calls and cold sales calls have come down significantly in the last few years. This is partly due to legislation, as well as due to the fact that more people have mobile phones these days; you can ignore incoming calls anytime if you wish so. However, at times, you might receive a flurry of calls from a particular but unfamiliar number, and you’ll be curious to find out who it was – a long lost friend or some pestering telemarketing executive? Well, with Number Guru app for iPhone – a fast reverse lookup service – you can track down those numbers quickly and easily. You can get Number Guru iPhone app for free from iTunes.
Number Guru App Features
You just type in a number in iPhone Number Guru app, and it’ll find out who it belongs to within seconds. According to its developers, Number Guru covers 100% of the landlines and 50% of mobiles in the US, save Verizon wireless. Further it claims that it covers 100% of telemarketers, debt collectors, or 800# numbers. The app assigns a ‘spam score’ to phone numbers, making it easy to tell at a glance if a particular number is sketchy or not. The app saves your search history means you can look back anytime to identify dubious call patterns, if any. Now let’s see how the app performed in real world.
We’ve tried the number of a doctor’s office in the area, and it returned wrong city even though the office name was correct. When a known spammer’s number was keyed in, it returned nothing solid. However, a popular restaurant name was precisely returned when entered its contact no. Also, the app seems to support only US numbers at the moment. International numbers does not seem to work. Number Guru iPhone app got a friendly UI backed by a solid design. Its database is also not too bad either. However, typical of free apps, you got to put up with those annoying banner ads. The app is compatible with iOS versions 4.3 or later.
Conclusion
Number Guru app for iPhone is a reverse look up service with not so impressive performance. It is on & off in its results, and is not totally reliable. Strangely, it does not support Verizon phone numbers. Banner ads are another major annoyance. Search history comes handy so is the concept of spam score. Verdict: Below par.
Category: Free iPhone Apps
