Comparison

Call Filter vs AriCore

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

Head to head
About

Call Filter

This app helps you avoid unwanted calls and potential scams. It identifies callers, blocks spam, and filters suspicious text messages, protecting your privacy and saving you time.

Highlights
  • Call screening
  • Caller ID identification
  • SMS spam filtering
  • Spam call blocking
  • Global caller database
  • Privacy protection
Features
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SpamBlocker brings you the most complete app to avoid phone scams, unwanted calls and extra charges in your bill. Stop missing important calls and wasting precious time answering unwanted ones. Protect yourself from dangerous phone scams. SpamBlocker blocks spam and scam calls, and displays caller ID name and call reason on incoming calls. ***Main Features:*** 1/ CALL SCREENER Know not only who it is, but also why they’re calling before you pick up! Say ‘goodbye’ to unknown callers. ‣ Enable Settings > Phone > Call Blocking & Identification 3/ CALLER ID Fewer unknown callers, more identified names. Whether it’s a call from a business, friend or potential spammer, our global database of caller names gives you real-time context about who’s calling. 4/ SMS SPAM FILTER Application creates a junk folder in your messages app and sends spam texts to the junk folder for you SpamBlocker respects your right to privacy. Your phonebook is never made searchable or public. Download now for free and get instant protection from spam callers! 5/Criteria for the spam list phone number: - We use Nationwide Robocall Data from the Robocall index to flag any spam, fraud or robocalls in the universe. Once they’re part of the millions of numbers in our database, they’ll be blocked from ever reaching your phone. 6/Security * Application does not use the data accessed via these tools for any purpose not directly related to operating or improving my app or extension. App doesn't use, share, or sell it for tracking purposes, creating user profiles....). Subscription Info: Subscription option: Weekly auto renew and Lifetime. Subscribe for unlimited access to all premium features. Information about the auto-renewal of subscription: - Subscription automatically renews 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 Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - An account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. The cost depends on the selected plan. Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/thaotran2022dev/privacy Terms of use: https://sites.google.com/view/thaotran2022dev/term

About

AriCore

Run large language models locally on your device for private, offline AI interactions. Connect your own API keys for advanced models or pair with a desktop application for enhanced functionality. Features include offline chat, custom skill creation, and a self-paced learning module.

Highlights
  • Local LLM execution
  • Offline chat capabilities
  • Desktop pairing with encryption
  • Custom skill creation
  • Self-paced learning module
  • On-device voice mode
Features
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AriCore runs large language models on your phone. You bring the model file, it runs locally. Nothing leaves the device. If you also use aricode/aridesk on your desktop, you can pair the two and chat from your phone while the desktop does the heavy lifting. The pairing is end-to-end encrypted — the relay server only ever sees ciphertext, and neither end stores messages on anyone else's computer. What you can do with it: Load a GGUF file and chat offline. Llama, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma, whatever you can fit in memory. Quantized 3B–7B models work well on recent iPhones. Bigger models work too if the device has the RAM for it. Connect your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google if you want frontier models without giving your data to a third-party chat app. Keys stay in the iOS Keychain. Pair with aricode desktop to use your existing sessions, approve tool calls, and keep going from the couch. Handy if you run long jobs on a workstation and want to glance at them from the kitchen. Build a self-paced course on anything. The Study tab spins a curriculum from a topic and a goal — lesson plus quiz, with optional cloze, written-answer, and code exercises per session, plus a midpoint and final exam. Tutor chats stay walled off from your personal context — no tool access, no memory writes, no calendar lookups. Finish a course and you get a certificate and a one-tap PDF export of the entire workbook, answers and grades included. Let the model reflect overnight. Dreams (optional) read recent conversations while the device is charging and surface proposals — memories worth keeping, custom skills you'd actually use, persona suggestions, watchers for things you care about. Every proposal is presented for review; nothing applies without your tap. Skills are local tools the model can call — plain markdown plus a small JSON config. Build them by hand or have the model draft one from a description. The skill creator runs in an isolated context so your personal data never leaks into the generated code. Voice mode runs entirely on-device. On-device speech recognition for input, Kokoro TTS for output, no cloud round-trip and no microphone audio ever leaving the phone. Why it exists: Most mobile AI apps are thin clients for somebody's backend. Your prompts sit on their servers, get mined for training, get tied to an account. This one doesn't do any of that. No account. No analytics. No crash reporting that phones home. The code path for "talk to a model" goes from your screen straight to the model — either on this device or over an encrypted tunnel to your own desktop. A few things worth knowing: You provide the models. There's no in-app store or downloader. Drop a .gguf into the Files app under AriCore and it shows up in the model picker. Running a 7B model takes 3–5 seconds to first token on an iPhone 15 Pro. Smaller models are faster. API keys live in the Keychain. The app never sees them after you paste them in unless you re-open the settings. They're not synced anywhere. The desktop pairing requires aricode running on the same network or reachable over Tailscale. Setup is one QR code scan.

Screenshots

Call Filter4 screens
AriCore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Call Filter at 4.7 against AriCore's 2.0. Call Filter also leads on ratings volume (43 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). AriCore's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Call Filter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and AriCore sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Call Filter holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Call Filter has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Call Filter ships an update every 3 months, AriCore daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Call Filter versus AriCore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCall FilterAriCore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (43 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB144 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperThao TranAlex Sheridan

Customer experience

Call Filter

All ratings43 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral4.7%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

AriCore

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Call Filter

Subscriptions1
  • Weekly Premium Subscription3 Days trial$4.997 Days
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium Subscription$19.99
10 purchases

AriCore

One-time10
  • Slate Theme$1.99
  • Vellum Theme$1.99
  • Ink Theme$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Linotype Theme$1.99
  • Foxglove Theme$1.99
  • Verdigris Theme$1.99
  • Manuscript Theme$2.99
  • Crow Theme$2.99
  • Dream Theme$2.99
  • Solar Hours$4.99

Questions

Is Call Filter free?
Call Filter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AriCore free?
AriCore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Call Filter or AriCore?
Call Filter is rated higher. Call Filter averages 4.7 out of 5 from 43 ratings, while AriCore averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Call Filter or AriCore have ads?
Neither Call Filter nor AriCore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Call Filter or AriCore?
Call Filter ships an update every 3 months, and AriCore daily. Most recently, Call Filter was updated on October 14, 2026 and AriCore on October 12, 2026.

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