How EverScrape works
EverScrape is a desktop app for Windows and Mac. You pick a business type and an area, it collects the public Google Maps listings for it, and it tells you for every phone number whether it is a mobile, a landline or a VoIP line. This page explains exactly how, including where it is limited, so you don't have to take our word for anything.
1. Where the leads come from
From the public business listings on Google Maps (name, address, phone, website, category, rating). The app does the searching itself, from your computer and your own internet connection. That is why there are no credits and no per-lead fees: we don't run scraping servers, so we have no per-lead cost to pass on. Your lead lists are stored only on your computer.
2. Where the phone-number data comes from
For the United States and Canada, EverScrape uses the public numbering records that the official numbering administrators publish: NANPA (US) and CNAC (Canada). In these records every phone number belongs to a block of 1,000 numbers that was assigned to one carrier. Our server keeps a daily copy of those files; the app downloads them (about 15 MB), builds a database on your computer in about a minute, and refreshes it every 7 days. After that every check is local and instant. UK and Australian numbers are classified from their official number ranges (for example 07 for UK mobiles, 04 for Australian mobiles).
We don't resell a third-party lookup service and we don't call each number. That is also why checking a phone number costs us nothing, and why it costs you nothing.
3. How a number becomes “mobile”, “landline” or “VoIP”
- The app finds the carrier of the number's 1,000-number block (or of the whole exchange, when the block has no record of its own).
- It decides the type from the carrier: wireless carriers (for example Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, AT&T Mobility, Rogers, TELUS Mobility) mean mobile; incumbent landline companies mean landline.
- A list of carrier-name rules overrides that for companies that are known to sell something else, such as VoIP apps, pager services or cable phone lines.
- Toll-free, premium-rate and invalid numbers are recognised from the number itself.
Only mobile numbers are marked as SMS-ready. Landlines, toll-free numbers and pagers can't receive text messages.
4. How accurate is it, honestly
It is an estimate. It is based on who a number was assigned to, not on a live look at the carrier network. The main limit is number porting: a number that was moved from a landline to a mobile carrier (or the other way round) keeps the type of its original block, and no free data source can see ports. Only paid live carrier lookups can, and they cost roughly a fraction of a cent to a cent for every single number, which is exactly the per-lead pricing EverScrape avoids.
We have not verified the type of each number on the real phone network, so we don't claim an accuracy percentage. We did compare the labels with three phone-lookup services on 1,000 US numbers: the result and the method are here. That measures agreement with other services, not truth, and it was run by us. The best test is your own market, in a few minutes:
- Run the free trial for your own business type and area.
- Take 200 numbers at random from the result.
- Check each one independently (call or text it, or look the carrier up in a lookup tool you trust).
- Count how many were classified correctly. That is your accuracy for your niche.
Also keep in mind what the check does not tell you: whether the number belongs to the business owner or a decision maker, and whether it is reachable today. A mobile number on a business listing is more likely to reach a person than a front-desk landline or a phone system, and that is what the filter is for.
5. What the app sends to our server
- The license key, an anonymous one-way hash of the computer's hardware ID, and the app version, to check and limit the license to one computer.
- The number of leads you have collected (a count only, never the leads themselves), to enforce the free trial's 1,000-lead limit and to check refund requests.
- Requests to download the public number-block files and to ask whether a newer version of the app exists.
What it does not send: your searches, your lead lists, your exports, or the phone numbers it checks. Those stay in a folder on your computer. The app contacts Google Maps directly from your computer. The full details are in the Privacy Policy.
6. Is the installer safe?
- It installs for your user only and doesn't ask for administrator rights.
- It is not signed with a paid Microsoft or Apple developer certificate. That is why Windows SmartScreen or macOS Gatekeeper warn about it, as they do for any new, unsigned program. It doesn't mean the file contains malware.
- New and unsigned programs are also often flagged by antivirus engines that use machine-learning guesses. In October 2026, Microsoft's security analysts reviewed an earlier EverScrape installer after one such automated flag and removed the detection.
- Updates are verified before they are installed: the server's answer is signed, and the app checks the size and the SHA-256 checksum of the download.
- You can check any installer yourself: upload it to VirusTotal, which scans it with about 70 antivirus engines, before you run it.
7. Who runs it and what if it doesn't work for you
EverScrape is run by Sebastian Zimola. Contact: support@everscrape.net, answered personally. The free trial gives you 1,000 validated leads with no card, so you can test everything above on your own market first. If the app doesn't run on your computer, you get a full refund within 7 days of the first payment, as long as it has collected fewer than 5,000 leads (see the Terms). The line-type check is an estimate and not a guarantee of results, as the Terms state.