“Just got a $170 phone bill for using the app — The new owners raised their price to $130 a year but that’s nothing compared to the $170 bill you’ll get from ATT for an international call while trying to record a half hour phone call with…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 500 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★18,451 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
127 MBApp size
$10.99In-app purchases
About this app
TapeACall lets you record your iPhone's incoming and outgoing phone calls.
TapeACall, a #1 business app in The United States, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden!
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Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 5.11.12 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.11.12, updated 2025-02-13.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Price keeps rising
The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.
What we saw: Price keeps rising: raised by 19 distinct reviewers (3.8% of 500 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Long-term user dissatisfied — I’ve been a loyal TapeACall user for over four years now. While the app hasn’t undergone many significant changes, it remains one of the most stable I’ve used. However, the annual price increase, which…”
“Long Time User OUTRAGEOUS PRICE INCREASE $80 CANCELING — this app pretty good but in no way shape or form is it worth $80 per year !”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.11.12.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business model$10.99
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.