The Ads Blocker vs Liberate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Ads Blocker
Enhance your Safari browsing experience by blocking ads, trackers, and unwanted content. This app significantly speeds up page loading, reduces data consumption, and saves disk space by preventing ad downloads.
- Blocks ads and trackers
- Faster web browsing
- Reduces data consumption
- Saves disk space
- Blocks scripts and social elements
- Whitelist functionality
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No ads, data consumption, lightning-fast Safari with The Ads Blocker. The Ads Blocker is a content blocker for Safari that block ads, tracking and many more. The Ads Blocker can help to optimize the web browsing experience to new level by save more cellular and WiFi data consumption and, loading and display information so much faster. FEATURES: • Up to 4 times faster on average web browsing • Reduce web data consumption on cellular and WiFi • Save more disk space by no more ads images download or cache • Block anything from ads and its tracking, social comment and dialog, image, script, CSS, custom fonts, and even SVG graphic • Whitelist with just a single tap
Liberate
This app helps users reduce web distractions by blocking access to specified websites for a set period. It offers a simple, three-step process to create a blacklist and set an end date for blocking, encouraging users to be more productive.
- Block websites in Safari
- Set end dates for blocking
- Create custom blacklists
- Reduce web distractions
- Increase productivity
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Do you want to quit being distracted by your phone? Liberate will help you unshackle and start producing more than you consume. Pick the apps and websites that steal your time, then choose how strict to be: • Block: everything stays blocked until the end time you set • Schedule: blocks start and stop by themselves on the days and hours you choose • Limit: give apps an amount of time, or a number of opens, per hour, day or week, or any mix of the three. Use one up and they're blocked until it resets Blocked means blocked. You can't open those apps or visit those sites until the block ends or the limit resets. For real emergencies there's one Emergency Unblock every 7 days; otherwise, no take-backs ~(‾▿‾)~ No subscription, no ads, no account and no data collected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Liberate at Free against The Ads Blocker's $0.99. Liberate also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 38 months). The Ads Blocker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On 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
Liberate is free to download; The Ads Blocker costs $0.99 up front. Liberate sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. The Ads Blocker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Liberate holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Liberate has 869 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
The Ads Blocker ships an update every 38 months, Liberate weekly. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | The Ads Blocker | Liberate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (869 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 45.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 869 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ratha Sou | Jordan Carney |
Customer experience
The Ads Blocker
Liberate
Bugs and requests
The Ads Blocker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Liberate
Reported bugs
3 issues- Not blocking websites as configured
- Stopped working after iOS 18.4 update
- Incompatible with iOS 18.4
Requested features
6 requests- Allow setting different block times for each website
- Add password protection
- Implement allow lists instead of block lists
- Add iCloud sync and automation features
- Provide more blocking options (e.g. block by keyword)
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- Add app blocking functionality
In-app purchases
The Ads Blocker
No in-app purchases
Liberate
- Small Tip$2.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
Questions
Is The Ads Blocker free?
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