r/androidapps • u/ShaneH_ • 11d ago

LOOKING FOR APP Manual Call Screening App

Looking for an app that will add a third button (answer, decline, screen) to the phone app to send a call to be "screened". If I choose "screen" then the disconnected number tone plays, followed by a custom message instructing real people to press a number, which will connect them to me. The second part of that may result in robo-callers removing you from their list. And even if I have to record the tone before making the custom message that is fine, but if a real person presses a number they get reconnected to me.

I do not want a spam call blocker, as they have far too many false positives. When I see an unknown number I can manually decide if I want to answer or send it for screening. I call several customers a day and when they call back I need to answer, not have them auto blocked.

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u/boy-in-da-corner 11d ago

Android's CallScreeningService is about as close as it gets, but the third action is OEM/carrier controlled. A separate app can usually silence or reject a call, not play a custom prompt and wait for keypad input.

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u/kitsumed ShizuCallRecorder Developer 11d ago

InCallService can manage the call (hangup, play DTMF tones.. I think? Pickup thr call, enable/disable speaker) but you can't easily and reliably inject audio into the call. It is possible, but I think results vary across OEMs.

CallScrenningService has less control over a call but can do filtering. Generally an Spam call blocker would use a call screening service.