Fossify Phone

★★★☆☆

A serviceable dialer app for the actual phone part of your smartphone, using your device’s contacts, favorites and call history. Still lets you swipe to accept/reject a call. You can block calls from specific numbers, or from calls with hidden numbers, or from anyone who isn’t in your contacts.

Advantages over Google’s default dialer:

• You know it’s not sending your call activity to the cloud.

Disadvantages:

• It also can’t pre-screen likely spam/scam calls, do speech-to-text transcripts or menus, or offer visual voicemail, and it doesn’t have much in the way of accessibility features.

It’s not clear whether it picks up any CallerID data beyond the incoming number. Since switching, I haven’t seen any labels, even “Scam likely,” on incoming calls that aren’t in my contacts. But then I don’t get a lot of actual phone calls, so it’s hard to be sure.