[Trayderjoe]

I use the free version of Hiya as well, and it does ok. The app claims to have an enormous database of flagged spam/telemarketing, etc. but I find that I usually flag most of the calls myself. Not sure that the paid version is better as it claims to ID the caller, but it would seem to me that you are paying for the caller ID, it is not going to block the calls any more effectively unless the phone number is flagged. I therefore make it a habit to not answer a call from a number not on my contact list, but will let the call go to voicemail. I then check voicemail later and if there is no message, I block the number using Hiya. I have had some partial messages left by a computer, so those numbers I block and report to Hiya. Note that I have received many calls from a Michigan area code which is the same area code as my phone number, and these tend to be cloned numbers.