Autarky vs WebFilter Content Blocker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Autarky
This utility blocks third-party JavaScript in Safari, making browsing faster and reducing data consumption. It helps prevent online tracking and can lower mobile carrier bills. Users can temporarily disable it for specific websites.
- Blocks third-party JavaScript in Safari
- Improves browsing speed
- Reduces data usage
- Blocks many ads
- Helps prevent online tracking
- Temporarily disable for specific sites
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Autarky is a content blocker that blocks all third-party JavaScript in Safari, it's super effective. Browsing will feel faster, consume less data, many ads will be blocked and advertising companies will have a hard time tracking your behaviour online. Are you on a small data bundel? Traveling abroad? Autarky helps you keep your carrier bill low. To enable Autarky open the Settings app > tap Safari > tap Content blockers. Be aware that certain websites might lose functionality or might not load at all, you can temporarily disable Autarky by pressing the 'puzzle piece' icon in Safari's address bar.
WebFilter Content Blocker
This app allows you to block specific web content within Safari, including trackers, ads, and cryptomining scripts. You can also create custom filtering rules using JSON format for advanced control over your browsing experience.
- Block analytics, advertising, and social tracking cookies
- Block analytics, advertising, and social tracking content/scripts
- Block cryptomining scripts
- Block fingerprinting
- Create custom content filtering rules in JSON format
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The web filtering capabilities of WebFrame Pro Kiosk are now available as a standalone content blocker for Safari. Selectively enable or disable blocking of: • Analytics, Advertising, and Social Tracking Cookies • Analytics, Advertising, and Social Tracking Content/Scripts • Cryptomining Scripts • Fingerprinting Create custom rules: • Specify your own content filtering rules in JSON format • See https://webkit.org/blog/3476/content-blockers-first-look/ for details
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WebFilter Content Blocker at 4.8 against Autarky's 4.1. WebFilter Content Blocker also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). Autarky's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Autarky costs $0.99 and WebFilter Content Blocker $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WebFilter Content Blocker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Autarky's written reviews are positive against 100% of WebFilter Content Blocker's.
Autarky ships an update every 12 months, WebFilter Content Blocker every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Autarky | WebFilter Content Blocker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (18 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonatan van der Horst | WireFrameRate, LLC |
Customer experience
Autarky
WebFilter Content Blocker
In-app purchases
Autarky
No in-app purchases
WebFilter Content Blocker
No in-app purchases
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