Comparison

Browser Content Blocking vs Recovery Birthdays

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Browser Content Blocking

This utility app enhances your browsing experience by blocking unwanted ads on websites, leading to faster page loads and reduced network traffic. It's designed for ease of use, allowing you to enable or disable blocking directly within the app's settings.

Highlights
  • Blocks unwanted ads
  • Faster web page loading
  • Reduces network traffic
  • Easy to enable/disable
  • Safari integration
Features
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Browser Content Blocking Content blocking Safari browser to block unwanted ads on the websites of 99%. Browser Content Blocking ad blocker faster web page loading and less network traffic, you can browse on your device. The easy to use. In Settings, check your Safari settings and content blockers enable the Content Blocking. After it is enabled in the application of the Browser Content Blocking it is possible to enable or disable Browser. If, after switching on or off to display or not display the blocked content you may want to delete the cache Safari (Safari Browser closes and restarts or web history and delete content).

About

Recovery Birthdays

This app helps users remember and celebrate important recovery milestones for friends and loved ones. It acts as a privacy-focused contact manager, syncing with your device's contacts to track sobriety, clean, or abstinence dates and sending timely reminders. Users can also send virtual chips and key-tags to show support.

Highlights
  • Recovery milestone reminders
  • Privacy-first contact management
  • Virtual chip and key-tag sending
  • Syncs with iPhone Contacts
  • Customizable widgets
  • QR code scanner and sharing
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Recovery Birthdays: Never forget a recovery milestone again. For someone in recovery, a Sobriety Date, Clean Date, or Abstinence Date can be just as important—if not more—than a belly-button birthday.  Recovery Birthdays helps you honor and celebrate those dates in the lives of your friends and loved ones. This app is a privacy-first contacts manager designed specifically for the recovery community.  It syncs easily with your iPhone Contacts, allows you to manage recovery dates, and sends reminders the day before and on each anniversary. Privacy First: Your data is yours.  Recovery Birthdays: Does not collect any user data. Does not send information to third-party servers. Does not store any 3rd party contact details beyond: Contact name Recovery anniversary date A single image for the contact We do not store or share phone numbers, email addresses, addresses, notes, or any personal contact information.  Everything is kept local to your device or iCloud Features * Notifications for recovery anniversaries (on the day and the day before). * Send a virtual chip or key-tag from within the app—choose from sobriety coins and clean-time tags spanning 24 hours to 60 years. * Add a recovery date to existing contacts or create new ones easily. * Auto-sync with Contacts for entries labeled 'Sobriety Date', 'Clean Date', or 'Abstinence Date'. * My Contact Card tab to view your clean time and share your details via text, QR code, or other sharing options. * Built-in QR code scanner to quickly add contacts by scanning their code. * iPhone widgets, including: Clean Time widget, Sobriety Chip widget, QR Code widget for easy sharing. * Widget Colour editor In recovery, we repair the connections we once neglected. Remembering someone’s recovery anniversary is a powerful way to show love, respect, and support. Bring a cake. Write a card. Send a message. Make a call. Let them know they matter. As it’s often said: "Only through giving do we truly receive." Included Chips & Key-Tags AA Chips (24 hours to 60 years): Silver – 24 Hours Red – 30 Days / 1 Month Yellow – 60 Days / 2 Months Green – 90 Days / 3 Months Orange – 4 Months Red – 5 Months Blue – 6 Months Purple – 7 Months Orange – 8 Months Pink – 9 Months Green – 10 Months Red – 11 Months Gold – 1–60 Years NA Key-Tags: White – Just for Today Pink – Welcome Back Orange – 30 Days Green – 60 Days Red – 90 Days Blue – 6 Months Yellow – 9 Months Glow-in-the-Dark White – 1 Year Grey – 18 Months Black & Gold – Multiple Years We’d Love to Hear From You If you have ideas, feature requests, or feedback, please reach out to recoverybirthdays@gmail.com or through the app’s support page. Recovery Birthdays Celebrate. Remember. Support. Never forget their important day again.

Screenshots

Browser Content Blocking4 screens
Recovery Birthdays4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Recovery Birthdays at Free against Browser Content Blocking's $0.99. Recovery Birthdays also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 15 months). Browser Content Blocking's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Recovery Birthdays is free to download; Browser Content Blocking costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Recovery Birthdays holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recovery Birthdays has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Browser Content Blocking ships an update every 15 months, Recovery Birthdays fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Browser Content Blocking versus Recovery Birthdays: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrowser Content BlockingRecovery Birthdays
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings112 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlbert PartiKurt Lane

Customer experience

Browser Content Blocking

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Recovery Birthdays

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Browser Content Blocking

No in-app purchases

None

Recovery Birthdays

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Browser Content Blocking free?
Browser Content Blocking costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recovery Birthdays free?
Recovery Birthdays is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Browser Content Blocking or Recovery Birthdays?
Recovery Birthdays is rated higher. Browser Content Blocking averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Recovery Birthdays averages 5.0 from 12 ratings.
Do Browser Content Blocking or Recovery Birthdays have ads?
Neither Browser Content Blocking nor Recovery Birthdays shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Browser Content Blocking or Recovery Birthdays?
Browser Content Blocking ships an update every 15 months, and Recovery Birthdays fortnightly. Most recently, Browser Content Blocking was updated on October 29, 2026 and Recovery Birthdays on October 27, 2026.

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