Vonage Home Extensions vs Call Control Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vonage Home Extensions
This app extends your home VoIP phone service to your smartphone. Make and receive calls using your home number, save on international calls, and avoid roaming charges. It integrates with your contacts for easy dialing and offers features like Do Not Disturb and call blocking.
- Make/receive calls on iPhone using home number
- Calls ring on multiple smartphones simultaneously
- VoIP for business and home phone service
- Save on international calls
- Use Wi-Fi calling to save cell minutes
- Caller ID shows Vonage number
- Block unwanted calls
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Your new Vonage VoIP phone service is here. And you can take it anywhere. As a Vonage Customer the Extensions app brings your home phone to your iPhone. Download now and you can make and receive home phone calls on up to two phones over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G. (Push Notifications required) Features • Make calls from your Vonage home number on your iPhone (New) • Calls to your home phone ring on up to two smartphones at the same time -answer whichever one is more convenient (New) • VoIP allows for business and home phone service, or calls on the move • Save with your Vonage internet calling plan wherever you are – unlimited international calling to 60+ countries with some plans • Use WiFi calling to make online phone calls and save cell minutes, avoid roaming charges when abroad and reach people when there’s poor coverage • Know who is calling you on your Vonage number - the app will use your contact book to tell you who is calling • Uses your contact book for easy, one touch dialing • Do Not Disturb – Easily turn on and off calls to the app (New) • Keep your mobile number private – Caller ID will show your Vonage number. (New) • Choose which number to display as your Caller ID – Home or Mobile. • Block unwanted calls to your Vonage line from your Recents or Call Settings. (New) • Boomerang - for international callers. No more missed call & callback frustration. Automatically connects to selected contacts using YOUR Vonage VoIP number - at no charge to them! (New) Getting Started • Download the Vonage Extensions VoIP app to your iPhone • Enter your mobile number, your Vonage VoIP phone number and your account password. • View the tour and accept push notifications to receive inbound calls. Note: Vonage VoIP service required. * Reasonable Use Policy applies to unlimited calling. Extensions® usage is combined with home phone usage under the policy. See www.vonage.com/reasonable_use_policy from more details. Calls made from mobiles may use airtime and incur charges, depending on your mobile plan. Pat: http://www.vonage.com/corporate/press_patents.php
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
Vonage Home Extensions and Call Control Home both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 51% of Vonage Home Extensions's written reviews are positive against 0% of Call Control Home's. Vonage Home Extensions also leads on ratings volume (4.7K vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Vonage Home Extensions against 4.5 for Call Control Home. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vonage Home Extensions has 4.7K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 51% of Vonage Home Extensions's written reviews are positive against 0% of Call Control Home's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vonage Home Extensions | Call Control Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (4.7K ratings) | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.7K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vonage | Call Control, LLC |
Customer experience
Vonage Home Extensions
Call Control Home
Bugs and requests
Vonage Home Extensions
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes frequently
- Incoming calls not ringing on mobile
- Touchpad/keypad not working during calls
- Caller ID not displaying properly
- Recent calls not updating or syncing
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to customize ringtones
- Improved call log/recent calls functionality
- Better integration with mobile contacts
- Support for more devices and OS versions
Call Control Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vonage Home Extensions
No in-app purchases
Call Control Home
No in-app purchases
Questions
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