Sync.ME – Caller ID & Block for Android and iPhone

Enhance your experience with your phone!

If you have a smartphone, chances are that you use it for pretty much everything in your personal life. Email, social media, and even games seem to take up the bulk of our time on our phones, so much so that we often forget what they were made for: sending and receiving calls. That is, we forget about it until we suddenly get a call from a stranger halfway across the country, or when we come to the slow, agonizing realization that we forgot your great-aunt’s birthday, and you shamefully fumble through your apps to send her a quick call.

Sync.MEis an app that enhances your experience with your phone. It does the things that you never even thought to ask for in a phone, but once you have it, you’ll be wondering how you ever lived without it. I, for one, have had terrible experiences with telemarketers, and I’m betting that just about everyone wishes that they could just filter the annoying, intrusive calls out before they have the chance to interrupt you throughout the day. It does just that, and it’s much simpler than having to sift through your contacts app for a “block” option. This app allows you to identify and silence scam callers with a single tap, and allows you to block those callers just as easily. It’s a change that seems so simple, but makes life a bit less stressful in the long run.

Sync.MEdoesn’t stop there, however. Remember when I talked about having to call up your great-aunt after you forgot her birthday? Well, it has tools that will remind you of any and all birthdays of those in your contacts. These contacts, by the way, are also enhanced by this app. The app integrates your contacts with their social media information, essentially giving you a one stop shop for all of your communication needs. Blacklisting unsavory characters in your phonebook can also be done from Sync.ME, and this coverage includes messages as well as calls.

For those of you who may not be that into social media, the extra bells and whistles may not be for you. If you’re not really the “birthday call” type, I’d imagine it wouldn’t be too fun to get notifications from Facebook AND Sync.MEabout a birthday that you don’t care that much about. Regardless, even if you don’t particularly like the extras (which are optional), Sync.MEis a great app that provides a very solid service, especially when considering that it’s free.

Trust me, spam texts and telemarketer calls used to be the bane of my existence. Sure, I could dig around in my contacts for a while to find and block them, but it never really did any good in the big picture. Those annoying callers can always, and I mean ALWAYS just call from a new number, and thats exactly what they did in most cases. Sync.Me takes the hassle out of avoiding these interruptions, and I for one, am always in support of an app that helps you lead a less annoying life.

Developer:8.7/ 10

Price: Free