Truecaller's Truemessenger app filters spam SMS: Here's all you need to know

Truecaller has launched Truemessenger, a new SMS replacement app for Android phones. It comes with an automated spam filter powered by 150 million Truecaller community members worldwide, according to the company. Truemessenger is available exclusively in India, with plans to launch globally in the near future. “With the increasing amount of SMS spam, and unknown messages sent to private mobile phone numbers, Truemessenger puts you in control of who you communicate with and keeps your inbox clean and free from unwanted messages,” Truecaller explains in its latest blogpost.

Truemessenger allows a user to add a name to a number, even for contacts outside their phonebook. The app also allows a user to detect, block, and report spam alongside other Truecaller members. Users can avoid messages from unwanted numbers and contacts and can also have a clean Inbox where spam messages are automatically sent to a separate folder. In other features, the new app also offers advanced filtering options by creating customized filters with known spam keywords or number series. Basically, Truemessenger takes a phone number and using the 150 million members from the Truecaller community it identifies the actual name behind the number. Truecaller has also partnered with Avicii and his manager Ash Pournouri to create a special message alert tone and soundtrack for the Truemessenger promotional film. “Today’s messaging apps are under constant attack from spammers and surrounded by uncertainty, but when we communicate via email for instance, our email app shows you the sender’s name and filters out spam messages for you, but SMS has lacked these essential components – until today,” said Alan Mamedi, CEO & co-founder of Truecaller. “With Truemessenger, we’ve reimagined the SMS app experience by making it more social and putting control back into the users’ hands so they  always know who they are communicating with.” “We know that spam calls and SMS are a major source of frustration for our users globally, and our users in India have been especially vocal in asking for a solution to this problem. Today, we begin our launch in India and are really excited to be able to offer Truemessenger into the Indian market to protect our users from spam, and help to streamline their communications. We look forward to subsequent launches globally in the near future,” Mamedi continued.