Roadblock vs Image Blocking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roadblock
Take control of your online experience by blocking unwanted ads, trackers, and other web content. This app enhances privacy, security, and speeds up page loading while reducing data usage. Syncs seamlessly across Apple devices.
- Block ads and trackers
- Block social, chat, and AI widgets
- Block notification banners
- Customizable blocking rules
- Hide webpage elements
- iCloud Sync across devices
- Passcode lock
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Control your web browsing experience with Roadblock, a powerful and lightweight content blocker for Safari. Roadblock blocks unwanted content, protects your privacy and security, improves webpage load time, and reduces browsing data usage. Roadblock is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Profiles and settings sync seamlessly across all devices. Built-in Rules: • Block ads and trackers • Block social, chat, and AI widgets • Block privacy, newsletter, and notification banners Custom Rules: • Block or allow web resources and websites • Hide webpage elements • Strip cookies from web requests • Force the loading of websites and resources over a secure connection (https) • Specify filters using a simple and an intuitive format or using regular expressions • Search, import, and share custom rules Other features: • Block and hide content visually • Blocker profiles • iCloud Sync • Passcode lock • Built-in rules updates and improvements Please note that you can only enable the settings in the 'Block and Trackers' and 'Languages' sections. Upgrade to Premium and unlock access to all the features in Roadblock. Privacy Policy: https://www.obiedcorner.com/privacy/roadblock/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Image Blocking
This utility extension for Safari on iOS allows users to block all images on web pages. This feature significantly speeds up browsing and reduces mobile data consumption, helping users conserve their data quota.
- Block all images in web pages
- Faster browsing experience
- Reduce mobile data usage
- Conserve mobile data quota
- Safari extension for iOS
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Image Blocking is an advanced image blocker extension for Safari in IOS 9. With Image Blocking you can block all images in web pages and the images will not be loaded. You will have faster browsing experience. Most important feature of image blocking is, your mobile data usage will decrease and mobile data quota will not come to end easily.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Image Blocking at 100% against Roadblock's 54%. Image Blocking also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Roadblock's advantage is ratings volume (268 vs 7). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Roadblock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Image Blocking asks for nothing beyond the download.
Image Blocking holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roadblock has 268 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Roadblock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Image Blocking's.
| Parameter | Roadblock | Image Blocking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (268 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 268 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Obied Corner Software | Elma Digital ltd |
Customer experience
Roadblock
Image Blocking
Bugs and requests
Roadblock
Reported bugs
10 issues- Custom filters fail to block websites despite being enabled
- Hide Content feature doesn't allow adding filters
- Text deforms when resizing window horizontally
- VoiceOver cannot focus Add button in rule edit UI
- Settings disable after iPad restart
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- Cookie stripping only works on HTTPS, not HTTP
- App crashes on latest iOS versions
- Safari broken or severely degraded after updates
- Restore purchases functionality broken
- Block Trackers option breaks website browsing
Requested features
10 requests- Quick whitelist feature in Safari toolbar
- Support for WebSocket and ping content types
- Ability to block specific YouTube channels
- Local activity log
- IP address and port blocking
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- Granular video blocking (not all-or-nothing)
- Better documentation for custom rule selectors
- Adjustable sidebar width
- Domain blocking without subdomain blocking
- Better pre-purchase clarity on subscription model
Image Blocking
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Roadblock
- Premium (1 Month)$0.991 Month
- Premium (1 Year)$5.991 Year
- Premium (Legacy)$1.99
Image Blocking
No in-app purchases
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