About Best Phone Automation

Best Phone Automation ranks two kinds of product for the search its name spells. The main ranking covers apps that make a smartphone act on its own: Apple Shortcuts, MacroDroid, Automate, Samsung Modes and Routines, Tasker, Google Pixel Rules and IFTTT. A second ranking covers AI phone answering for businesses: Retell AI, RingCentral AI Receptionist, Bland AI, Vapi, Goodcall, Smith.ai, Dialpad and Synthflow. Mobile app testing tools are outside its scope.

Who publishes it

Best Phone Automation is run by the company named in the imprint. Corrections and questions go to [email protected].

How scores are set

Each score note ends with the evidence behind its number, and a score changes only when a cited source changes. Every change is dated in the changelog.

The site earns from affiliate programs. Five of the eight AI phone answering services run a program that pays for referrals: Retell AI pays 15% of a referred customer's revenue every month for 12 months¹, Synthflow 20% for every paid referral², Vapi 15% for every paid referral³, RingCentral $12 to $32 per sale through FlexOffers⁴, and Bland AI a partner revenue share at a rate it does not publish⁵. Goodcall, Smith.ai, Dialpad and the seven phone apps pay the publisher nothing. Commission terms never enter a score, a position or a pick, and no option is left off a page because it pays nothing: Synthflow, which pays 20%, ranks last of eight because it publishes no price, and Goodcall and Smith.ai, which pay nothing, are picks on the AI phone answering page.

• Scores come from the rubric on the methodology page. No vendor sees a score before it is published.
• No company pays to be listed or to change a score.
• Every fact and price links to the source it came from, with the date it was checked.

Disclosure

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Corrections

If a fact is wrong, email [email protected] with a link to the source. Corrections are checked within five business days and recorded in the changelog.