Comparison

Phone vs UpCall

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Phone

This app consolidates all your calling needs, including standard phone calls, FaceTime audio, and video calls. It offers advanced features like voicemail transcription, call recording, and intelligent call screening to manage your communications efficiently.

Highlights
  • Unified calls (phone, FaceTime audio/video)
  • Voicemail transcription and summaries
  • Live call recording
  • Customizable contact posters
  • Intelligent call screening
  • Wi-Fi calling
  • Automatic mic modes
Features
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Make and receive calls with the Phone app. • Phone calls, FaceTime audio calls and FaceTime video calls all in one place. • Choose a new unified layout that brings together your Favorites, Recents, and Voicemails • Favorites offers one-tap shortcuts for calls and messages to your most important contacts. • Recents displays recent conversations and missed calls. Search for previous calls, transcribed voicemails, and contacts using a broad range of search criteria. • Voicemail Summaries powered by Apple Intelligence appear in-line with missed calls and help surface the most important information. • Keypad search lets you quickly find and call existing contacts by typing in their name or number with the alphanumeric keypad. • Contact Posters let you customize exactly how you appear when you give someone a call. Choose from various treatments for photos, Memoji and your name. • Record live calls or FaceTime audio calls from the Phone app and review the transcripts in the Notes app. When you start a recording, the Phone app automatically announces that the call is being recorded. • Visual Voicemail offers a written transcript of your voicemails. Save Visual Voicemail messages as notes, voice memos, or share them using Messages, Mail or AirDrop.* • Live Voicemail lets you see a real-time transcription as someone is leaving you a message, and you can pick up the call if it’s something you want to address in the moment. • Automatic Mic Mode picks the right Mic Mode for you. Voice Isolation blocks out ambient noise and spotlights your voice. Wide Spectrum will leave ambient noises unfiltered, allowing your voice and all the sounds around you to be heard. • Text responses make it easy to send a response in a single tap when you can’t pick up a call. Use suggested replies, or create your own custom text responses. • Remind Me Later helps you remember to return calls that you can’t pick up in the moment. • Hold Assist lets the Phone app wait on hold for you and alerts you once a live agent is available. • Call Screening lets you screen incoming calls from unknown numbers. Your phone will pick up the call for you and ask for a name and reason for the call before the phone even rings. • Call Context uses Apple Intelligence to help surface relevant information — like a confirmation code — when you call a business. • Silence Unknown Callers gives you the option to automatically send unknown numbers to voicemail. Your phone will only ring for people in your contacts, recent outgoing calls, and Siri Suggestions. • Blocked Contacts allows you to identify unwanted callers and blocks phone and FaceTime calls from those numbers. • A range of ringtones and vibrations allow you to choose distinct alerts for certain people. • Wi-Fi Calling lets you make or receive a phone call on a Wi-Fi connection, so you can stay connected in areas with little or no cellular coverage.* • Dial Assist automatically determines the correct international or local prefix when dialing. • Call Waiting allows someone to call you while you’re already on another call.* • Call Forwarding relays calls made to your number to another number that you specify.* Apple Watch Features: • Make and answer phone calls right from your wrist. • When you hear or feel the call, send the call to voicemail, answer using your iPhone or send a message. • While you’re on a call, adjust the call volume, use the keypad or even switch the call to your iPhone. • Listen to voicemails. • Ask Siri to call someone in your contacts. *Requires carrier support

About

UpCall

Identify unknown callers and find contact information for numbers not saved in your phone. Personalize your calls with custom tones, photos, and notes. Block spam and manage your availability with a do-not-disturb feature.

Highlights
  • Unknown caller identification
  • Advanced search for contacts
  • Spam call warnings
  • Do Not Disturb mode
  • Customizable caller tones
  • Add photos, stickers, and notes to calls
Features
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Dou you want to know who’s calling, even the number isn’t saved in your contacts? Free UpCall application is the practical and safe solution to identify unknown numbers. When you receive a call from a Turkcell unknown number, you can find out who the caller is while your phone is ringing, you can query a Turkcell unknown number via the advanced search tool and reach the person you want to call easily. In the UpCall application, in addition to unknown numbers, there are many different features; with the do not disturb feature, you can use your phone as if it is turned off when it is on, you can personalize the operator name with the operator name setting, you can choose a tone for the callers, you can add photos, stickers and notes to your calls. DOU YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS CALLING? When you get a call from a Turkcell number that is not saved in your contacts, you can see who is calling while your phone is ringing. The caller IDs appears on the screen if the callers have given permission to share their names. YOU CAN ALSO CALL THE NUMBERS YOU DON'T KNOW Now, your directory is not just made up of saved numbers, you can also find and call numbers you don't know. Thanks to UpCall, you can query a Turkcell number from a name and a name from a number. In addition, you can search for a place number by simply typing its name, view its location on the map, and draw a route. LET THE OTHERS KNOW WHY YOU’RE CALLING! By adding a photo, sticker and note to your call, you can tell the other party why you are calling while the phone is still ringing. In order to benefit from this feature, the application must be installed on the called one’s phone too. BE AWARE OF SPAM CALLS With UpCall, you can be informed of SPAM calls thanks to the warning on your screen. BE UNREACHABLE WITH DO NOT DISTURB If you want to be unreachable but at the same time keep your phone on, UpCall is the solution for you! The callers will hear the announcement that "the person you are calling cannot be reached". But you can keep on using your phone and making calls. CUSTOMIZE OPERATOR NAME With UpCall, you can change the operator name on the screen of your mobile phone. CHOOSE YOUR TONE FOR THE CALLERS You can choose a tone for the callers that they can listen to while your phone is ringing. Thus, you can inform why you can’t pick up the phone. ALL YOUR CALLS NOW ON ONE SCREEN Unlike your phone's call screen, you can see all your calls on a single screen. For example, you can learn from your call records, who called you when your mobile is turned off or busy or when the called ones are reachable. You can receive service notifications for call services (KimAramış, CepAçık, ŞimdiAra, KimArıyor…etc) within the application instead of SMS. You must have a subscription to search services for this feature. * This application can be used by all operator subscribers in Turkey. Some features are only available to Turkcell subscribers due to network restrictions. For details and Frequently Asked Questions, you can visit https://www.turkcell.com.tr/servisler/upcall#sss SUGGESTION: You can send all your suggestions about the application from the "SUGGESTION" section under the "HELP & SUGGESTION" menu in the application.

Screenshots

Phone2 screens
UpCall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Phone at none against UpCall's shown. Phone also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (10K vs 89). UpCall's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). On price, rating and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Phone against 3.9 for UpCall. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Phone has 10K ratings behind it against 89, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 28% of Phone's written reviews are positive against 16% of UpCall's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Phone ships an update every 8 months, UpCall every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Phone versus UpCall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoneUpCall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (10K ratings) — better3.9 (89 ratings)
Positive reviews28.3% of reviews — better15.7% of reviews
Number of ratings10K — better89
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppleTurkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.

Customer experience

Phone

All ratings10,372 ratings
Positive72.0%
Neutral6.2%
Negative21.7%
Written reviews2,164 reviews
Positive28.3%
Neutral10.5%
Negative61.2%

UpCall

All ratings89 ratings
Positive68.5%
Neutral6.7%
Negative24.7%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive15.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative77.1%

Bugs and requests

Phone

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Voicemail notification issues
  • Disappearing contact photos and information
  • Inability to make outgoing calls after updates
  • Inconsistent behavior with call log and missed call notifications

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow editing of mistyped numbers
  • Add search option in Recents tab
  • Provide option to delete/change voicemail greeting
  • Enable bulk contact deletion
  • Integrate more customization options (e.g., ringtones, backgrounds)

UpCall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Phone

No in-app purchases

None

UpCall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Phone free?
Phone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is UpCall free?
UpCall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Phone or UpCall?
Phone is rated higher. Phone averages 4.0 out of 5 from 10K ratings, while UpCall averages 3.9 from 89 ratings.
Do Phone or UpCall have ads?
UpCall shows ads; Phone does not.
Which is updated more often, Phone or UpCall?
Phone ships an update every 8 months, and UpCall every 2 months. Most recently, Phone was updated on September 25, 2026 and UpCall on August 12, 2026.

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