Google Voice

Google Voice for Android takes your phone communications a step further: call your contacts, control your privacy, chat or transcribe your voice messages.

More control over your calls

Google no longer has enough time to get all the data about our online activities, but now wants to collect these communications of ours as well. Having failed in the areas of social networking, chat and instant messaging (Facebook is way ahead), it's trying to make room for calls. And she succeeds thanks to her native phone app for Android and this Google Voice.

Telephone, voicemail and chat in one device

But leaving aside its dubious practices from an ethical point of view, let's talk about what interests us now: this application brings together in the same app what used to be in several of them, since it allows us to make calls, our voicemail too manage and chat with our contacts through the same interface. In other words, it's here to take over the Phone app and Hangouts.

But there are many more features in this application, since it also offers us other features to improve our control over our phone communications and privacy (relative to the rest of users, not Google of course):

• Automatically filter spam and block numbers you don't want to receive calls from. Manage incoming calls, SMS and voicemail using customized settings.
• Automatic backups that are easy to restore.
• Chat with your contacts.
• Manage messages between devices by simply logging into your account.
• Transcribe the messages on your voicemail.
• Make international calls at low rates.

It's definitely a great application to manage our phone conversation, but with a downside: if you download this APK you'll only be able to use it from your G Suite account (and not in all countries), since it's only available in certain regions is available.

Requirements and further information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 5.0.