Call Forwarding vs Divert Calls
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Call Forwarding
Enable conditional call forwarding on your iPhone for busy, unanswered, or out-of-reach calls. Manage activation, deactivation, and status checks for these forwarding types. This app utilizes standard GSM call forwarding codes.
- Conditional call forwarding
- Forward when busy
- Forward when no answer
- Forward when out of reach
- Activate call forwarding
- Deactivate call forwarding
- Check call forwarding status
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Now you can have conditional call forwarding on your iPhone you can forward calls when busy, when no answer, and/or when out of reach. with call forwarding you can activate, deactivate and check status of all of the above conditional call forwarding types. **This app is using default call forwarding codes which are used by GSM carriers all over the world if your carrier is not a GSM carrier this app will not work with you**
Divert Calls
Easily set up conditional call diverts for your GSM iPhone. Manage forwarding for all calls, busy lines, unanswered calls, or unreachable numbers. Select numbers from your contacts and the app remembers your last used numbers.
- Conditional call diverting
- Forward all, busy, unanswered, unreachable
- Select numbers from contacts
- Remembers last used numbers
- Generates GSM codes
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***For GSM iPhones*** • Setup conditional call diverts for iPhone! • All, Busy, Unanswered & Unreachable • Phone number to divert may be selected from the contacts list • The last number is remembered for each category • Appropriate standard GSM call divert code will be generated, this has to be manually pasted in the phone app and the call button hit to implement the divert
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Divert Calls at Free against Call Forwarding's $2.99. Divert Calls also leads on review sentiment (51% vs 8%) and rating (3.8 vs 1.5). Call Forwarding's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support 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
Divert Calls is free to download; Call Forwarding costs $2.99 up front. Divert Calls sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Call Forwarding asks for nothing beyond the download.
Divert Calls holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Divert Calls has 84 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of Call Forwarding's written reviews are positive against 51% of Divert Calls's.
Call Forwarding ships an update every 2 months, Divert Calls every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Call Forwarding | Divert Calls |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.5 (16 ratings) | 3.8 (84 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.2% of reviews | 51.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 84 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abdel Karim Souman | Mohan Noone |
Customer experience
Call Forwarding
Divert Calls
In-app purchases
Call Forwarding
No in-app purchases
Divert Calls
- Remove Ads$0.99
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