Phone Spam Pattern Blocker vs Call Control Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phone Spam Pattern Blocker
Block unwanted calls by creating custom patterns, like area codes or prefixes, to instantly silence millions of numbers. This app offers a powerful, on-device solution to combat robocalls and scams without subscriptions. Start blocking for free and upgrade for unlimited protection.
- Block calls by area code, exchange, or prefix
- Block millions of numbers with a single pattern
- New blocking engine handles up to 500 million numbers
- One-time purchase for Pro version
- Free tier blocks up to 5 million numbers
- 100% on-device processing for privacy
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Block entire area codes, exchanges, and spoofed number ranges with one pattern, not one number at a time. Phone Pattern Blocker uses wildcard patterns to block huge ranges of unwanted calls with a single rule. Enter a pattern like 555-123-XXXX and every number in that range is blocked: your phone won’t ring, and the caller can still leave a voicemail. OPTIMIZED FOR IPHONE DUO Open your iPhone Duo to see your patterns and the one you’re editing side by side. As you type, the What This Blocks panel shows how many numbers a pattern covers, its range, example numbers, and any overlap with your other patterns. Close it and pick up right where you left off. HOW IT WORKS Create a pattern using X as a wildcard digit. The app registers every matching number with the call blocking built into iOS. There’s no call monitoring: iOS quietly declines matching calls on its own, even when the app isn’t running. FEATURES • Block by area code, exchange, or any custom range • Block neighbor spoofing: calls made to look like your own number • Allow exceptions so the numbers you choose still ring • 200+ countries and regions with local number formats • iCloud keeps your patterns in sync across your devices • Browse every number a pattern will block • Import and export your patterns YOUR CONTACTS ALWAYS RING iOS never blocks a number saved in your Contacts, even if it matches a pattern. PRIVACY Your patterns are processed on your iPhone. The app can’t see your calls, contacts, messages, or call history. Crash and blocking diagnostics are shared with Apparent Logic by default to help fix problems, and you can turn this off any time in About › Privacy & Diagnostics. PRO, NO SUBSCRIPTION Block up to 5 million numbers free. Pro is a one-time purchase that raises your limit to 1 billion numbers, with no subscription.
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: Phone Spam Pattern Blocker at 43% against Call Control Home's 0%. Phone Spam Pattern Blocker also leads on ratings volume (226 vs 3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Call Control Home's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price and ads 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. Phone Spam Pattern Blocker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Call Control Home asks for nothing beyond the download.
Call Control Home holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Phone Spam Pattern Blocker has 226 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Phone Spam Pattern Blocker's written reviews are positive against 0% of Call Control Home's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Phone Spam Pattern Blocker ships an update fortnightly, Call Control Home every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phone Spam Pattern Blocker | Call Control Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (226 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 226 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apparent Logic, LLC | Call Control, LLC |
Customer experience
Phone Spam Pattern Blocker
Call Control Home
Bugs and requests
Phone Spam Pattern Blocker
Reported bugs
10 issues- Premium/paid features show payment error despite being purchased
- App freezes and becomes unresponsive
- Blocked numbers still ring through to user
- App blocks all incoming and outgoing calls
- App doesn't appear in iOS Settings > Phone > Call Blocking
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- Contact developer button crashes the app
- App cannot be uninstalled properly
- White screen freeze on launch
- Incompatibility with certain iOS versions and iPhone models
- Glitches with certain number patterns
Requested features
8 requests- Support for 10-digit phone numbers (Vietnam and other countries)
- Ability to whitelist/safelist numbers with same prefix
- SMS/text message blocking capability
- Call blocking log with statistics
- Copy and paste functionality for entering numbers
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- Support for international number formats
- Increase limit on number of patterns that can be blocked
- Better error messages explaining why patterns cannot be blocked
Call Control Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Phone Spam Pattern Blocker
- Phone Pattern Blocker Pro$4.99
Call Control Home
No in-app purchases
Questions
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