Divert Calls vs Simple Call Blocker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Divert Calls
Easily set up conditional call diverts on your iPhone. Choose from options like diverting calls when busy, unanswered, or unreachable. Select numbers from your contacts and the app remembers your last used numbers for each category.
- Conditional call divert setup
- Divert for 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
Simple Call Blocker
Block unwanted calls on your iPhone by individual numbers or entire ranges. Create an allow list for specific numbers or contacts, ensuring they never get blocked. This app prioritizes simplicity and privacy, without collecting your data.
- Block individual phone numbers
- Block ranges of phone numbers
- Create an allow list
- Option to allow all contacts
- No personal data collection
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Simple Call Blocker is a utility that lets you block unwanted calls to your iPhone. It allows you to block individual numbers, or ranges of numbers. You may also add individual numbers or ranges of numbers to the Allow List, so that they will not be blocked by this app, even if they are in the Block List. Optionally, you may also allow all of your phone's contacts. ## Does the app contain a list of known phone spammers to block? No. Simple Call Blocker does not provide or maintain a known spammers blacklist. There are several other iOS call blockers that do, which you can use for free, if that feature is important to you. You may use Simple Call Blocker in conjunction with one of those other apps to blacklist additional numbers. ## Why would I use this app? Three reasons: 1. Simple Call Blocker allows you to block a range of phone numbers, to help prevent “neighbor spam”, for free. Other apps may let you blacklist individual phone numbers, but require an in-app purchase or paid subscription to block ranges of numbers. 2. Simple Call Blocker does not collect your personal information. You do not need to provide it access to your contacts unless you wish to enable the “allow all contacts” option. In contrast, some call blockers require a subscription or even a login to their web service in order to work. 3. Simple Call Blocker is designed to be very simple and reliable. In contrast, with many call blockers, it is hard to determine how many numbers are in the blacklist, whether or not the “Call Directory app extension” is loaded, and so on. ## Privacy Policy Simple Call Blocker does not collect any of your information, period. No data within the app or accessed by the app is ever transmitted to the developer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Call Blocker at none against Divert Calls's 1. Simple Call Blocker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.2 vs 3.8). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and 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
Both are free to download. Divert Calls sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Call Blocker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple Call Blocker holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Call Blocker has 3.7K ratings behind it against 85, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 51% and 52% positive.
Divert Calls ships an update every 5 months, Simple Call Blocker every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Divert Calls | Simple Call Blocker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (85 ratings) | 4.2 (3.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.1% of reviews | 52.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 85 | 3.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohan Noone | Michael Descy |
Customer experience
Divert Calls
Simple Call Blocker
Bugs and requests
Divert Calls
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Simple Call Blocker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Calls still getting through blocked numbers
- Validation issues with number formats
- Blocker not loading properly
Requested features
4 requests- Block entire area codes or countries
- Ability to block from contacts list
- Logging/reporting of blocked calls
- Expand blocking capacity
In-app purchases
Divert Calls
- Remove Ads$0.99
Simple Call Blocker
No in-app purchases
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