Caller ID app Truecaller hits 500 million monthly users

Sweden-based caller ID app Truecaller said Tuesday that it has deed the milestone of 500 cardinal monthly progressive users connected its platform. The institution said that it besides crossed the people of 150 cardinal users extracurricular India, its biggest marketplace with implicit 350 cardinal monthly users.

This institution said that it added 50 cardinal users successful 2025, and its idiosyncratic basal has doubled successful the past 5 years. In April 2025, Truecaller said it had much than 450 cardinal users. The institution besides noted that much than 4 cardinal radical subscribe to its paid plans.

“More and much radical request assistance navigating spam, scams, and unwanted connection each day,” Truecaller CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala said successful a statement. “Reaching 500 cardinal users shows the standard of that need, and the spot radical spot successful Truecaller to assistance marque connection safer,”

“Our committedness remains focused connected continuously strengthening Truecaller with smarter exertion and caller capabilities that support users before, during, and aft each telephone oregon message. Ultimately, our purpose is to physique a safer, much trusted connection ecosystem for everyone. We present person our sights acceptable connected the adjacent milestone: 1 cardinal users,” helium added.

Truecaller has been trying to grow its services beyond caller ID successful the past fewer years. The institution precocious launched a diagnostic that would let 1 idiosyncratic to go an admin and extremity calls connected behalf of users of their family radical to debar getting scammed. The institution has besides been experimenting with utilizing AI to surface and reply calls.

Truecaller told TechCrunch past month it is besides investigating utilizing AI to automatically show disconnected calls erstwhile definite words associated with scams are detected, specified arsenic “digital arrest” — a maneuver successful which perpetrators impersonate instrumentality enforcement officers to extract accusation oregon wealth from telephone recipients.

In India, the institution is facing challenges from the country’s Caller Name Presentation (CNAP) system, which displays the sanction of the caller arsenic registered with their telephone networks.