Pepper - Block robocalls before they ring your phone ❌🤖

@thisdickie thank you for letting us know! When we're ready to look at going international, the UK is at the top of the list.

@huntaround We'll keep you posted on this!

@saeed_hessami We're working on it! Happy to add you to our mailing list if you're interested.

@chase_rief1 Great feedback! We'll keep that in mind with next iterations.

@ethan_naluz So you can't even describe what the end users go through? I still have no idea what "human verification" is... is that a math problem? Pressing buttons? Please describe.

@chase_rief1 In addition to any other filters we do, a human would simply press a number via the keypad in response to the prompt from Pepper. The processing we do to determine the likelihood that the caller is a human increasingly gets more nuanced as Pepper improves, but regardless, we want to minimize the friction for a human caller to get connected to the person they called. Luckily, since only callers that aren't in your contacts list will ever be filtered, only the necessary callers will ever get prompted.

@claytonhartford Happy to add you to our mailing list if you're interested!

@bitgamey Great question! The difference between Pepper and the functionality you'd get from the link you shared is that Pepper doesn't outright block every caller that isn't in your contacts list. The article's method "... will only allow Calls from people who are on your Contacts List. All other Calls from unknown Callers or Callers with hidden Caller ID will be automatically silenced on your iPhone". For people who don't mind blocking all unknown numbers, following the steps in your article might work for them. For people who want to make sure they get calls from people, even if they're from people not in their contacts list, Pepper would be a better fit.

@ethan_naluz Thanks, I guess the response from Ani to another poster confused me: "We inverted the model and only let known callers (people in your contacts) directly call you - everyone else has to verify that they are a human first."

@jan_landy1 we totally understand! We'd love to decrease our costs over time.

@igor_beschieru Hi Igor! Please correct me if I'm wrong, but YouMail specifically replaces your voicemail. We also handle calls from unknown numbers without immediately sending them to voicemail, and you can take calls normally with us.

@patrick_munce Another way to look at this is $6 per month (which is how the subscription actually works, we don't lock anyone in on annual plans), or one Venti Caramel Frappuccino from Starbucks (with an extra pump or two of caramel) per month. 😋

@patrick_munce We'd love to get Sprint support in soon, but they don't work correctly with our app at the moment.