The Ads Blocker vs Zipym Lite
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 Lite
This app is a versatile tool for managing files, browsing the web, and playing media. It supports a wide range of archive formats for compression and extraction, includes a built-in music and video player, and offers Wi-Fi file sharing capabilities.
- Archive compression and extraction
- Password protection for archives
- Multi-part archive support
- Built-in music and video player
- Web browser with source viewing
- Wi-Fi file sharing
- IPTV and M3U8 playback
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Zipym Lite app is a quick compression program, web browser ,archiver, extractor, unarchiver and even a file manager tool. Zipym lite also supports accessibility VoiceOver. - Safari Web Extension: Zipym Video Helper Lite • Link Play, Play the video link on new Tab • Picture in Picture (PiP) • Full screen mode • 0.5~16 x play rate • Send video to Zipym Lite - 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 - 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 • 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) - URL scheme • Startup zipymlite:// • Open URL zipymlite:// followed by link to open. • Download a zip file zipymlite://download/ followed by zip link to download.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Zipym Lite at 4.4 against The Ads Blocker's 3.0. Zipym Lite also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 38 months) and ratings volume (23 vs 2). The Ads Blocker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 Lite $0.29 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Zipym Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zipym Lite has 23 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 Lite every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Ads Blocker | Zipym Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.29 — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.4 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 60.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #190 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 119 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 Lite
In-app purchases
The Ads Blocker
No in-app purchases
Zipym Lite
No in-app purchases
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