Adieu vs SafaShield
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Adieu
This content blocking extension for Safari removes all ads from web pages, making them more readable and cleaner. It also speeds up page loading times, conserves battery life, and reduces cellular data usage.
- Blocks banners and pop-up ads
- Faster web page loading
- Saves battery life
- Reduces cellular data usage
- Easy to use
- No access to user data
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Adieu is simple but very powerful content blocking extension for Safari. Once installed Adieu blocks all ads on the web pages opened in Safari and makes the pages more readable and clean. With Adieu the pages are loaded faster and it saves the battery life as well as it reduces your cellular data plan usage. FEATURES • Blocks banners and pop-up ads • Faster loading of web pages • Saves battery life • Reduces monthly cellular data plan usage • Very easy to use, just enable it and go browsing with Safari VERY IMPORTANT! Adieu doesn't have access to your data or browsing history! No proxy or VPN connections are used!
SafaShield
Enhance your Safari browsing experience by blocking malicious domains, ads, and trackers. This utility offers customizable rules to protect your privacy and reduce online threats.
- Block malicious domains
- Block ads and web trackers
- Block abused TLDs
- Whitelist custom domains
- Allow ads on trusted sites
- Block custom TLDs
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SafaShield is a Safari content blocker app developed by NoVirusThanks Company Srl that was created to improve Safari web browsing security by blocking potentially suspicious and malicious domains. We provide built-in options to block most abused TLDs (such as domains that end in .top or .xyz), dynamic DNS domains, free hosting domains, internationalized domains, unsecure connections, and more. We added also options to protect the user's privacy by blocking ads and web trackers. Other useful features you can find aboard are the possibility to whitelist a domain so it will never be blocked, allow ads on websites you trust and that you visit frequently to support their work, block custom domain names and also custom domain TLDs (such as .it or .info). The main focus of this app is to reduce the attack surface by improving the Safari web browsing security with smart content blocking rules.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SafaShield at 4.6 against Adieu's 3.7. SafaShield also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 126 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SafaShield holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively.
Adieu ships an update every 126 months, SafaShield every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Adieu | SafaShield |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 126 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Zahariev | NOVIRUSTHANKS COMPANY SRL |
Customer experience
Adieu
SafaShield
In-app purchases
Adieu
No in-app purchases
SafaShield
No in-app purchases
