The Ads Blocker vs Focus Dial
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
Focus Dial
This app helps you improve focus with a simple, innovative timer. Track progress over time with customizable categories and interactive widgets. Sync data across devices with iCloud support.
- Innovative focus dial for time adjustment
- Timer counts up towards goal
- Track focus across weeks, months, years
- Interactive Home Screen widgets
- 10 customizable categories with colors/icons
- iCloud backup and sync
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Focus Dial is here to improve your ability to focus on the tasks and hobbies you care about! SIMPLE: Quickly adjust your goal time before each session using the innovative focus dial! POSITIVE: Timer counts up towards your goal. Focus on what you are doing and feel good about what you have done. Progress over perfection! POWERFUL: Track your focus across weeks, months, and years. Challenge yourself to become more intentional with your time and how you spend it. See your progress at a glance on your Home Screen with powerful and interactive widgets and live activities. CUSTOMIZABLE: Use up to 10 customizable categories with your favorite colors and icons for the tasks and hobbies you focus on. Automatically follow your devices dark or light theme, or specify which one you want to use in Focus Dial. SUPPORTS ICLOUD: Back up your data and sync across multiple iPhones and iPads. Start dialing in your focus today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Focus Dial at 5.0 against The Ads Blocker's 3.0. Focus Dial also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 38 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). The Ads Blocker's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On ads, 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 Focus Dial $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Focus Dial holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.
The Ads Blocker ships an update every 38 months, Focus Dial every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Ads Blocker | Focus Dial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ratha Sou | Digital Wave Creative |
Customer experience
The Ads Blocker
Focus Dial
In-app purchases
The Ads Blocker
No in-app purchases
Focus Dial
No in-app purchases
