InnoCaption vs Call Control Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
InnoCaption
This app provides free, real-time captions for phone calls, assisting individuals with hearing loss. It offers options for live stenographers or automated speech recognition, with features like text-to-speech shortcuts and transcript summaries for enhanced communication.
- Live call captioning (stenographer or ASR)
- Text-to-speech calling with AI refine
- Customizable TTS shortcuts
- AI-powered transcript summaries
- Save and view call transcripts
- Captioning for incoming and outgoing calls
- Spam call filter
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If hearing loss makes understanding phone calls challenging, try the InnoCaption app for free, fast, and accurate real-time call captions. InnoCaption is available at no cost to eligible users in the United States through funding from the FCC’s Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) Fund. **** New Update **** • Custom Word List – Add custom words like names and specialized terms to improve real-time caption accuracy • Picture-in-Picture – Keep captions visible in a floating window while using other apps or browsing the web during a call REAL-TIME CAPTIONS FOR EVERY CALL • Switch between live stenographers or Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) captions at any time during your call • Available at no cost to individuals with hearing loss in the United States • Caption your calls in multiple languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Filipino, and more • Make and caption 3-way calls SEAMLESS CALLING & PERSONALIZATION • Get captions for both incoming and outgoing calls • Keep your existing phone number with our patented One Number technology • Use InnoCaption like your regular phone dialer – no need to make calls through a 711 relay • Customize the InnoCaption app to fit your accessibility needs TEXT-TO-SPEECH CALLING FEATURES • Use AI Refine to turn short responses into complete sentences at the touch of a button • Customize prewritten TTS Shortcuts for fast and effortless replies during calls ACCESSIBLE TRANSCRIPTS & VOICEMAIL • Save and view transcripts of previous calls • Generate concise AI-powered summaries of call transcripts • Access and read fully captioned voicemail messages SMART CONTACT INTEGRATION • Easily sync contacts from your phone to the InnoCaption app • Continue using your personal cell number by combining our caller ID and call-forwarding features EMERGENCY CALLS & SPAM FILTER • Built-in spam call filter blocks high-risk calls and provides notices for potential spam calls • Make 911 emergency calls with captions* *911 service may be limited or unavailable in the event of network disruptions or degradation, service connection or internet failure, or other circumstances. For more information, visit www.innocaption.com/calling-911 Cellular data plan or Wi-Fi is required to use the service. FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS ANYONE BUT REGISTERED USERS WITH HEARING LOSS FROM USING INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) CAPTIONED TELEPHONES WITH THE CAPTIONS TURNED ON. IP Captioned Telephone Service may use a live operator. The operator generates captions of what the other party to the call says. These captions are then sent to your phone. There is a cost for each minute of captions generated, paid from a federally administered fund. For more information, visit us at https://www.innocaption.com For assistance, contact us at support@innocaption.com
Call Control Home
Block unwanted spam, telemarketing, and robocalls from your landline. This WiFi-enabled service uses a community-sourced database to identify and filter calls, offering customizable blocking options and a personal allow list.
- Block millions of unwanted calls
- WiFi enabled for constant connection
- Personal block and allow lists
- Block calls marked as spam
- Block spoofed similar numbers
- Block unknown and private calls
- Choose call blocking mode
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*Must have Call Control Home WiFi (purchased separately) to use Call Control Home WiFi app!* Annoyed by a constant barrage of spam calls to your home or business? Take back control of your landline with Call Control Home! Call Control Home is a smart, full featured call blocker for landlines that is WiFi enabled and checks each incoming call against our CommunityIQ® database of spam callers. It's like having a junk folder for your home phone! Call Control is the #1 Call Blocking app with over 12 million users worldwide! It features patented CommunityIQ® technology to automatically block calls from millions of spammers, telemarketers and robocallers. FEATURES *Block Millions of Unwanted Calls* Political Calls, Telemarketers, Scammers - you name it, they're on our list. Call Control Home is automatically updated with our CommunityIQ® database blocking millions robocalls based upon user-generated insights. *WiFi Enabled = Constantly Connected* Call Control Home features a WiFi connection ensuring that you'll always be blocking new scammers. You can also access Call Control Home from the mobile app or our website. *Personal Block List* Block calls from any phone number by adding them to the block list, in addition to spam calls blocked automatically. *Personal Alow List* The allow list lets you receive phone calls from numbers that you have identified as “A-okay”. *Block Calls Marked Spam* If your phone carrier's Caller ID has identified a call as SPAM, we will block it. *Block Spoofed Similar Numbers* Scammers commonly call from a similar number, called spoofing, to trick you into answering the phone. The Block Spoofed Similar Numbers feature automatically blocks these callers. Contacts are always allowed through and won't be blocked, even if a contact number is similar to yours. *Block Unknown and Private Calls* *Choose Your Call Blocking Mode* Blocked Calls Don't Ring! - You choose whether to: - Disconnect and hang up on blocked calls - Ignore and let them goto voicemail *Do Not Disturb* Want to send all calls to voicemail at night? Or turn off your home phones during a movie for couple of hours? It's simple to configure with a tap of a button in the Call Control Home app. *Call History and Automatic Lookups* Call Control Home will display recent calls made to your landline from our mobile app and will provide caller name information if it's contained within our database. So you'll know which of your recent calls were spam and get the caller names of local businesses and individuals (if available). *Premium Reverse Lookups* You can lookup the caller name for any phone number you'd like to search for. This is a handy feature if you want to find out who owns a phone number or if a friend gets an unknown call and you want to find out who it is. The Community results will always be free, but if we don't have information about a number in our database, the Premium lookup searches third party databases to get the information for you. PRIVACY Call Control respects your privacy and DOES NOT store or share your contacts! We maintain extremely high ethical standards surrounding the permissions you grant to us and the private information Call Control has access to and are committed to using this information only to make Call Control function in the manner that you specifically determine. Click on the link below for an explanation of the permissions required to run Call Control and how we use the permissions that are granted ethically and with respect of your privacy. https://www.callcontrol.com/call-control-app-permissions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: InnoCaption at 71% against Call Control Home's 0%. InnoCaption also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
InnoCaption holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InnoCaption has 12K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of InnoCaption's written reviews are positive against 0% of Call Control Home's.
InnoCaption ships an update weekly, Call Control Home every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | InnoCaption | Call Control Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (12K ratings) — better | 4.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mezmo Corporation | Call Control, LLC |
Customer experience
InnoCaption
Call Control Home
Bugs and requests
InnoCaption
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incoming calls not always received or displayed
- App crashing or freezing during calls
- Issues with call forwarding setup
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to caption in-person conversations
- Integration with video calling apps
- Improved transcription accuracy for names and numbers
- Option to save call transcripts locally
Call Control Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
InnoCaption
No in-app purchases
Call Control Home
No in-app purchases
Questions
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