Instacall vs T9 Dialer PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Instacall
This app offers a smart T9 dialer for efficient contact searching and calling. It features a user-friendly interface with customizable colors and speed dial support.
- Smart T9 dialing
- Fast contact search
- Speed dial support
- Customizable colors
- Simple interface
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Instacall is the best T9 Smart Dialer It's incredibly easy to find names and make call FEATURES • Great Interface • Simple Design • Support Speed Dial • Color Customization
T9 Dialer PRO
This app enhances your phone's dialer with T9 search capabilities, supporting a wide range of foreign characters. Quickly access favorites and recents, manage contacts by merging similar entries, and customize the app's appearance with themes. It works offline and is ad-free.
- T9 keyboard search with foreign character support
- Quick access to favorites and recents
- Contact merging and management
- Export contacts as VCF
- Theme support and customization
- Offline functionality
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Features: Speed dial with T9 keyboard capabilities that searches even foreign characters (including Slovenian, Cyrillic, Russian, Greek, Japanese and more...) Quick Access to Favorites and Recents, they are all on one screen. Merge similar contacts and manage them. Merge search will find similar contacts even if they are written in entirely different alphabet. Find contacts and easily call, message, or manage (edit, merge, share or delete) them with a simple swipe. Export your contacts as vcf to use with other devices. Theme support. Add free themes, which you can easily share with other users of the app. Customize keyboard look and size. Customize the App theme color, font size, dial pad background color, buttons style, font size, and more, and save your style in Themes. No ads. App works completely offline. All your data is safely stored on your device and it isn't sent anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Instacall at 4.3 against T9 Dialer PRO's 1.0. Instacall also leads on ratings volume (216 vs 1) and review sentiment (66% vs 44%). T9 Dialer PRO's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $5.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On 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
Instacall costs $5.99 and T9 Dialer PRO $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Instacall holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Instacall has 216 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Instacall's written reviews are positive against 44% of T9 Dialer PRO's.
Instacall ships an update every 2 months, T9 Dialer PRO every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Instacall | T9 Dialer PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (216 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.8% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 216 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | hbull | Adamantus |
Customer experience
Instacall
T9 Dialer PRO
Bugs and requests
Instacall
Reported bugs
15 issues- Settings crash on launch
- App crashes when accessing settings
- Paid version settings crash
- Lite version settings work, paid version does not
- Unable to search contacts
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- No missed call history
- Watch app screen is cut off
- Vibration not working on iOS 14
- App crashes when trying to access settings menu
- Purchased app crashes when accessing settings
- Cannot search contacts with numbers or asterisks
- App crashes when pressing certain 초성 keys
- App crashes when trying to dial
- App crashes sometimes
- Contact search is clumsy and glitches
Requested features
20 requests- Support for WhatsApp and social network calls
- Contact backup feature
- Display call duration
- Support for e-sim
- Option to disable confirmation before dialing
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- Seamless integration with call history
- Support for voicemail access
- Ability to customize widget size and description
- Option to change font size and background color
- Add Russian language support
- Support for T9 search with Chinese Pinyin
- Add automatic area code feature
- Option to hide call list or auto-delete
- Support for 10-key Korean keyboard for 초성 search
- Option to sort frequently searched contacts at the top
- Option to disable the 'Instacall' logo on the recent screen
- Support for direct dialing without confirmation
- Add contact marking feature
- Support for Force Touch like original dialer
- Add option to select which line to use for calls
T9 Dialer PRO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Instacall
No in-app purchases
T9 Dialer PRO
No in-app purchases
