Tortoise vs BrookFirewall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tortoise
This app helps you meticulously track the growth and health of your pet turtles. Record key measurements, feeding habits, and visual progress with photos and videos. Manage multiple pets and set reminders for care tasks to ensure optimal health.
- Record weight and measurements
- Log feeding habits
- Store photos and videos
- Generate growth charts
- Manage multiple turtles
- Set care reminders
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The all-in-one tool for tracking your turtle’s growth Tortoise helps you record each turtle’s weight, plastron/carapace measurements, feeding logs, and photos & videos, compare growth charts, and monitor your pet turtle’s health. Supports multiple turtles management and reminder features, making turtle care smarter and easier. * Comprehensive Recording: weight, plastron, carapace, feeding status — all clearly tracked * Growth Charts: automatically generate charts to observe growth patterns * Photo Comparison: take and store photos to track your turtle’s growth * Multiple Turtle Management: individual profiles for each turtle * Reminder Feature: scheduled feeding and measurements so nothing is forgotten If you have any suggestions or requests, please provide feedback in the app — Tortoise will continue to update and improve! E-mail: vercitycool@gmail.com
BrookFirewall
Easily block specific websites and service domains to enhance your privacy and control data usage. This utility offers a simple setup with instant effects, requiring no jailbreak for immediate protection.
- Block specific websites
- Block service domains
- Simple setup
- Instant effect
- No jailbreak required
- Protect privacy
- Control data usage
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A professional network proxy and traffic debugging tool designed for advanced users and developers. 【Key Features】 • Multi-Protocol Support: support for modern protocols including VLESS, VMess, and Trojan. • Custom Domain Routing: Manually configure flexible routing rules (Domain, IP-CIDR, GeoIP) to precisely manage and direct your traffic. • Secure DNS Resolution: Supports custom DNS and DoH (DNS over HTTPS) to prevent DNS poisoning and safeguard privacy. • MITM Traffic Inspection & Scripting (Beta): Inspect encrypted HTTPS traffic with MITM analysis and custom scripts for API testing, URL rewriting, and debugging.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BrookFirewall at Free against Tortoise's $1.99. BrookFirewall also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Tortoise's advantage is review sentiment (63% vs 50%). On update cadence, 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
BrookFirewall is free to download; Tortoise costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BrookFirewall holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Tortoise's written reviews are positive against 50% of BrookFirewall's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tortoise ships an update every 4 months, BrookFirewall every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tortoise | BrookFirewall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 叶祺 顾 | Brook Design, LLC |
Customer experience
Tortoise
BrookFirewall
In-app purchases
Tortoise
No in-app purchases
BrookFirewall
No in-app purchases
