Comparison

Roadblock vs Vivia3D

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Vivia3D

Features
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Turn your photo library into a world you can walk through. Vivia3D transforms everyday photos and memories into immersive 3D galleries, virtual exhibitions, and personal museums. Instead of scrolling through an endless camera roll, you can rediscover your favorite moments inside beautifully designed spaces made for exploring, remembering, and sharing. Create your own gallery in seconds. Choose the photos yourself, let Vivia3D display photos randomly from your library, or use AI-assisted selection to help organize memories around time, travel, pets, food, portraits, and more. Explore Memories in 3D Bring your photos beyond the traditional album. Vivia3D offers multiple visual gallery styles, including immersive 3D corridors, cubes, spheres, coin-inspired displays, and classic flat photo walls. Each format gives your memories a different way to come alive. Create Galleries Your Way Choose from three flexible photo display modes: Fixed Photos
Select exactly which photos appear in your gallery. Random Library
Let your gallery continuously rediscover photos from your library. Random Collection
Create a selected photo collection and let Vivia3D randomly rotate memories from within it. AI-Assisted Photo Curation Have thousands of photos? Vivia3D helps you turn them into meaningful collections. Your Personal Memory Museum Build different spaces for the moments that matter to you: yearly memories, family, travel, pets, food, fitness, special occasions, favorite videos, or everyday life. A vacation can become a travel exhibition.
Your pet photos can become their own gallery.
Family memories can become a private museum.
Old photos can become something worth exploring again. Vivia3D is designed for people who want more than another photo organizer or slideshow. It gives your photo library a sense of place, atmosphere, and discovery. Create a gallery. Enter the space. Rediscover your memories.

Screenshots

Roadblock4 screens
Vivia3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vivia3D at none against Roadblock's 3. Roadblock's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Roadblock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Vivia3D asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Roadblock versus Vivia3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoadblockVivia3D
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (268 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings268 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB170 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperObied Corner SoftwareAivora Systems Corporation

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

Vivia3D

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Roadblock

Subscriptions2
  • Premium (1 Month)$0.991 Month
  • Premium (1 Year)$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium (Legacy)$1.99
None

Vivia3D

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roadblock free?
Roadblock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vivia3D free?
Vivia3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Roadblock or Vivia3D have ads?
Neither Roadblock nor Vivia3D shows ads.

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