Mobolize vs OONI Probe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobolize
This app enhances your mobile data experience by providing advanced security and connectivity features. It protects against malware and phishing, encrypts your Wi-Fi connection, and optimizes data usage by bonding Wi-Fi and cellular networks for a seamless experience.
- Malware and phishing protection
- Wi-Fi data encryption
- Wi-Fi and cellular data bonding
- SmartVPN® technology
- Optimized battery usage
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Welcome to Mobolize for iOS! Try out our newest features and help provide feedback on the cutting edge technology coming out of the Mobolize labs. All-in one Mobile Data Protection app built on our SmartVPN® technology that looks like a VPN but has the smarts that other VPN solutions lack, to deliver you the fastest, most secure and efficient mobile data experience possible. Three awesome features to protect and enhance mobile data on your device: PROTECT • Blocks malware and phishing sites in the browser/apps/email/texts to always keep you safe and secure. ENCRYPT • Protects your data privacy when using Wi-Fi by automatically encrypting unsecured content and ensuring your Wi-Fi connection is safe. • Works without breaking most VPN sensitive apps like streaming video services. BOND • Provides the best possible data connection by leveraging both the Wi-Fi and cellular data networks to keep your apps and services running continuously. • By intelligently augmenting poor performing Wi-Fi with cellular data, Wi-Fi dead zones are eliminated. Congested Wi-Fi is unclogged with load-balancing of Wi-Fi and cellular which provides seamless transitions when moving from Wi-Fi to cellular coverage for most apps and services. HOW IT WORKS • SmartVPN® technology automatically and intelligently applies threat protection, encryption and wifi+cell bonding only when necessary to ensure the fastest possible performance and most efficient battery usage of any VPN. • The "VPN" will be visible on the Status Bar while any of features are running. You will also see occasional notifications when status changes in the app and as you connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi. • Automatically encrypts your data when you connect to Wi-Fi networks. Avoids re-encrypting of HTTPS for faster performance, less battery usage and compatibility with all apps and video services. IMPORTANT NOTES • The Wi-Fi logo may disappear when the VPN is running, even though you are still connected to Wi-Fi. This is a known occurrence for all VPNs. To check you are still on Wi-Fi tap on your iPhone settings app and look at the Wi-Fi status. • Please note that if you check the data or battery usage on your phone, it may appear as though this app is using a lot of data and battery. However, this app isn’t actually using all that data/battery. Reporting for the data/battery usage has been shifted from your other apps to this one, because your data now passes through this app so it can manage your security and connectivity. Actual battery usage will be minimal – on average 0.1%. • Reporting an issue with the application is performed by tapping the Menu (upper right corner of the app) and then tapping ‘Report problem.’ When reporting a problem, please be as specific as you can.
OONI Probe
This app helps you detect internet censorship and surveillance systems by examining website and app blocking. It also measures your network's speed and performance, providing data that can serve as evidence of interference. All collected data is published openly to promote transparency.
- Examine website and app blocking
- Measure network speed and performance
- Detect censorship and surveillance systems
- Collect evidence of internet censorship
- Publish open network measurement data
- Free and open source software
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Are websites and social media apps blocked? Is your network unusually slow? Run OONI Probe to find out! With this app, you will examine the blocking of websites and instant messaging apps, measure your network's speed and performance, and check whether systems that could be responsible for censorship and surveillance are in your network. OONI Probe is developed by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a free software project (under The Tor Project) that aims to uncover internet censorship around the world. Since 2012, OONI’s global community has collected millions of network measurements from more than 200 countries, shedding light on multiple cases of network interference. ▶ Collect evidence of internet censorship You can check whether and how websites and instant messaging apps are blocked. The network measurement data you will collect may serve as evidence of internet censorship. ▶ Detect systems responsible for censorship and surveillance OONI Probe tests are also designed to uncover the presence of systems (middleboxes) that could be responsible for censorship and surveillance. ▶ Measure the speed and performance of your network You can measure the speed and performance of your network by running OONI's implementation of the Network Diagnostic Test (NDT). You can also measure video streaming performance with the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) test. ▶ Open data OONI publishes network measurement data because open data allows third parties to verify OONI findings, conduct independent studies, and answer other research questions. Openly publishing OONI data also helps increase transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can explore and download OONI data here: https://ooni.io/data/ ▶ Free software All OONI Probe tests (including our NDT and DASH implementations), are based on free and open source software. You can find OONI software projects on GitHub: https://github.com/ooni. Curious to learn how OONI Probe tests work? Learn more: https://ooni.io/nettest/ To receive updates from the OONI-verse, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OONI Probe at 4.5 against Mobolize's 4.1. OONI Probe also leads on ratings volume (84 vs 16). Mobolize's advantage is review sentiment (73% vs 58%). On price, update cadence, 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.
OONI Probe holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OONI Probe has 84 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Mobolize's written reviews are positive against 58% of OONI Probe's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mobolize ships an update every 3 months, OONI Probe every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mobolize | OONI Probe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) | 4.5 (84 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 58.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 84 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobophiles Inc. | The Tor Project |
Customer experience
Mobolize
OONI Probe
In-app purchases
Mobolize
No in-app purchases
OONI Probe
No in-app purchases









