The Ads Blocker vs Zipym Pro
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
Zipym Pro
This app is a versatile tool for managing files, offering compression, extraction, and playback of various media formats. It supports numerous archive types, network shares, and includes a built-in browser with advanced viewing capabilities.
- Uncompress RAR, 7z, Zip, and more
- Compress files with password protection
- Play music and videos from network shares
- Built-in music and video players
- IPTV and M3U8 file playback
- Wi-Fi file sharing
- Advanced web browser features
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Zipym app is a quick compression program, archiver, extractor, unarchiver and even a file manager tool. Zipym also supports accessibility VoiceOver. - Uncompress • Support archive formats: RAR ,7z ,Zip ,Zipx ,Tar ,Gzip ,Bzip2 ,Tgz ,Tar.gz ,Lzh,GZ, BZ2, XZ,ISO, ARJ, BZIP, TBZ, DEB, CAB, JAR, RPM, CBS,CBZ,CBR,LZMA,MSI,NSIS and other archive formats • Support multi-part archives • Support archives protected by a password - Compress • You can password protect any file to zip or 7z • You can split a any format archive to multi-part archives - Network Shares: Play video and music • SMB • WebDAV • AList - Music player Most music formats mp3,m4a,aac,flac,ogg,wma,wav,aiff,opus, etc. - Video player • Most video formats rmvb、avi、mkv、mp4、flv、wmv、3gp、mov、vob、dvd、swf、rm、 ts, etc. • Picture in Picture for mp4 / mov videos - IPTV Support m3u and txt formats - M3U8 file player You can view / play / merge /merge and convert the m3u8 file content - Wi-Fi Sharing Transfer files from other devices(pc or other phone) over Wifi - Browser • Dark Model • View Page Source • View Video Source • View Image Source • View JavaScript Source • Images of websites • Videos of websites • M3U8 files of websites • User Scripts • Support Wi-Fi Sharing, download files of another device (pc or other phone) - Safari Web Extension: Zipym Video Helper • Picture in picture (PiP) • Full screen mode • 16 x play rate • Link Play • Send to Zipym - URL scheme • Startup Zipym:// • Open URL Zipym:// followed by link to open. • Download a zip file Zipym://download/ followed by zip link to download.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Zipym Pro at 4.9 against The Ads Blocker's 3.0. Zipym Pro also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 38 months) and ratings volume (90 vs 2). The Ads Blocker's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
The Ads Blocker costs $0.99 and Zipym Pro $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Zipym Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zipym Pro has 90 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
The Ads Blocker ships an update every 38 months, Zipym Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Ads Blocker | Zipym Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (90 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 92.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 90 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ratha Sou | 北京伊码网络科技有限公司 |
Customer experience
The Ads Blocker
Zipym Pro
In-app purchases
The Ads Blocker
No in-app purchases
Zipym Pro
No in-app purchases
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