App reaches 200 million user milestone

Truecaller announced today that their global community has reached the 200 million user milestone, doubling its user base in less than 10 months. With this milestone comes a new feature bringing richer information to the screens of Truecaller users around the world: Number Tagging.

Launching today on Android, the company’s free phonebook app Truecaller and dial pad replacement app, Truedialer will now come equipped with a new option that will let users to tag a contact based on a broad range of categories such as Transportation, Banking / Finance, or Drinks and Nightlife, making it even easier to identify your cab driver or your bank.

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“Truecaller is about putting trust into communications and adding more information about who you’re communicating with. The new Tagging feature will take this commitment one step further,” said Alan Mamedi, CEO and Co-Founder of Truecaller, “Over time, we envision using this information to improve our users ability to identify who is contacting them, why they are contacting them, what they are contacting them about, and be able to make an informed decision as to whether to take the call, or not.”

Truecaller now sees over 3 billion searches per month, showing a 50% growth from last quarter. With over 200 million spam numbers in their database, the Truecaller products are making communication much easier.