Comparison

World Voicemail vs Quick Link Scan

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

Head to head
About

World Voicemail

This app transforms your voicemail experience by offering visual transcripts and playback directly from your lock screen. It includes advanced spam blocking for both calls and voicemails, along with features like forwarding to email and search functionality.

Highlights
  • Visual voicemail transcripts
  • Lock screen playback/reading
  • Spam voicemail blocking
  • Spam call blocking
  • Voicemail forwarding to email
  • Searchable voicemails
  • Audio playback speed control
Features
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Enjoy a 1-week free trial. Cancel anytime. World Voicemail revolutionizes your voicemail experience, making it effortless to retrieve and respond to voicemails. IMPORTANT: To use World Voicemail, your mobile phone service provider must support 'Conditional Call Diversion'. To test whether your provider supports this feature, please call **004*+16502624537*11#. After using this test number, please call this number to cancel: ##004*11#. KEY FEATURES: READ YOUR VOICEMAIL VISUALLY You can read automatic transcripts of your voicemail. Want to listen to them? That's easy; just press play. LISTEN TO OR READ YOUR VOICEMAIL ON THE LOCK SCREEN That's right - you don't even need to enter the App to see your latest voicemail. BLOCK SPAM VOICEMAILS Cut through the noise and get rid of spam voicemails. Move a voicemail to the new Spam folder or mark a caller as a spammer. Artificial intelligence also automatically detects and informs you of Suspected Spam. BLOCK SPAM CALLS Get fewer calls from spam callers by adding numbers to the in-app Spammers list, and their next call will instantly go to voicemail or get blocked. If you have a voicemail marked Suspected Spam from a number, their next incoming call will also display as Suspected Spam. NATIVE SUPPORT FOR DARK MODE We've crafted a beautiful dark mode experience that's easy on the eyes. ACCESS YOUR VOICEMAILS IN ANY ORDER Navigating your voicemails is now as easy as a scroll and tap. View voicemails in threads, organised by contact. AUDIO PLAYBACK SPEED CONTROL Save time or listen carefully to your voicemails with 0.8x, 1x, 1.5x, or 2x speed controls. VOICEMAIL FORWARDING TO EMAIL Add up to two email addresses to receive your voicemails right in your inbox. Why two email addresses? So you can boost your responsiveness by also sending voicemails to your assistant or team to respond on your behalf! Don't worry; you can filter out calls from personal contacts. SEARCH YOUR VOICEMAILS BY NAME OR KEYWORD With our built-in automatic transcription service, World Voicemail makes your voicemails effortlessly searchable. EASY PERSONALIZED GREETING SETUP World Voicemail makes it easy for you to record your personalized greeting. Change it every season, or if you're away on holiday. EASY MANAGEMENT Managing your voicemails has never been easier. Call back contacts, share your voicemails or delete them to save space. UNLOCK WITH BIOMETRICS Protect voicemails on your phone with a passcode and biometrics - Face ID and Touch ID. VOICEMAILS ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Read or listen to voicemails right from your lock screen or notification centre. MULTI-LINGUAL SUPPORT Enjoy World Voicemail in Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese. UNDER THE HOOD To use World Voicemail as your primary voicemail service, you simply need to divert your voicemails to our App. We'll show you how. This is safe and reversible. A subscription is required to use the World Voicemail. You can sign up to one or twelve-month subscriptions. ABOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS The duration and price of each subscription are visible on the storefront, updated during the time of purchase. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period is forfeited as soon as a subscription is purchased. Privacy Policy: https://norwoodsystems.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://norwoodsystems.com/terms-and-conditions/

About

Quick Link Scan

Easily scan and save URLs, social media handles, and hashtags directly from your device. Get quick actions for social networks and web links, with offline saving capabilities. Customize your experience with preferred social apps and actions.

Highlights
  • Scan URLs, social handles, and hashtags
  • Quick actions for social networks
  • Open, edit, copy, or share links
  • Save links for later viewing
  • Offline scanning and saving
  • Customizable quick actions and default apps
  • Camera flash support for low light
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Find It, Scan It & Save It HOW THE APP WORKS To scan your first link or your 100th, its easy! Open the app on your iPhone, make sure the link is placed between the blue area on the screen. Once it is all in there, capture it. If it finds a Social Link, it will prompt you with quick actions to social networks 1. View or Search on Twitter 2. View or Search on Facebook 3. View or Search on Instagram Don't like the list we provided you, edit it right inside Settings. We have support for all the major social applications: Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit If it finds a URL it will prompt you with some quick actions to deal with it: 1. Open the link right there and then 2. Edit the link if it's not quite what you saw, edit it easily 3. Copy it over to your click board 4. Send it to friends or family 5. Save links for later which will automatically show it in the listed links you have scanned EVERYTHING IS DONE RIGHT ON YOUR DEVICE! Finding that link takes 0% of data! If you aren’t in Internet connectivity you will still be able to scan it, all you will have to do is `Save link for later` if you can’t access the internet at that time. LINK SUPPORTED - Anything we think that looks like a URL is a URL in our books. - @connections like user accounts and business accounts - #hashtags like trending topics, poster tags and event trackers If you find a link but QuickLink Scan says ’No link found’, tweet at us or message us directly with a captured image of the link. We will look into why it wouldn’t scan and get back to you with the answers you deserve. ADDITIONAL FEATURES - Interactive Web view with more sharing capabilities - View a history of all the past links you have scanned - Sharing past links with all your integrated Applications (Messages, Twitter, Facebook etc.) - Supports the camera flash for low light areas when capturing links - Set default social app to automatically open the social app of your choosing while interacting with past @tags and #hashtags - Customized list of Quick Actions when interacting with social @tags and #hashtags REQUIREMENTS In order to use QuickLinks Scan, your device must support the newest major version of iOS on your iPhone and your device must have a built-in camera. When viewing links after scanning, you must have internet connectivity to view these sites.

Screenshots

World Voicemail4 screens
Quick Link Scan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quick Link Scan at 100% against World Voicemail's 34%. Quick Link Scan also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (4.5 vs 4.2). World Voicemail's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. World Voicemail sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Quick Link Scan asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Quick Link Scan holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: World Voicemail has 1.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of World Voicemail's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quick Link Scan's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

World Voicemail ships an update every 2 months, Quick Link Scan every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
World Voicemail versus Quick Link Scan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorld VoicemailQuick Link Scan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (1.6K ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.6K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14 — better14.4
Further details — not scored
Size148 MB34 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNorwood Systems (Aust) Pty LtdJuice Box Monkey Designs Inc.

Customer experience

World Voicemail

All ratings1,562 ratings
Positive80.6%
Neutral4.5%
Negative14.9%
Written reviews116 reviews
Positive33.6%
Neutral5.2%
Negative61.2%

Quick Link Scan

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

World Voicemail

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Voicemail messages not recording properly
  • App crashing or not functioning as expected
  • Subscription issues and inability to cancel

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to sort and manage voicemails
  • Improved transcription accuracy
  • Option to disable automatic subscription

Quick Link Scan

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

World Voicemail

Subscriptions4
  • Subscribe for a month$5.991 Month
  • 3-month subscription$12.993 Months
  • Best deal! Annual subscription7 Days trial$45.991 Year
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  • Best deal! Annual subscription$45.991 Year
None

Quick Link Scan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is World Voicemail free?
World Voicemail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quick Link Scan free?
Quick Link Scan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, World Voicemail or Quick Link Scan?
Quick Link Scan is rated higher. World Voicemail averages 4.2 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while Quick Link Scan averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do World Voicemail or Quick Link Scan have ads?
Neither World Voicemail nor Quick Link Scan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, World Voicemail or Quick Link Scan?
World Voicemail ships an update every 2 months, and Quick Link Scan every 3 months. Most recently, World Voicemail was updated on October 27, 2026 and Quick Link Scan on October 12, 2026.

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