Comparison

Userscripts vs Cookie

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

Head to head
About

Userscripts

This open-source Safari extension allows you to run custom JavaScript and CSS code on any website. Enhance your browsing experience with personalized styling, automatic redirects, and ad-blocking.

Highlights
  • Run custom JavaScript
  • Inject custom CSS
  • Automatic page redirection
  • Website page manipulation
  • Custom ad-blocking
  • Open source
  • No user tracking
Features
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Userscripts is an open source Safari extension that lets you save and run arbitrary bits of JavaScript (and CSS) code for the websites you visit. Features: - Open source - No user tracking Use cases: - Automatic page redirection - Website page manipulation (styling, element creation) - Custom ad-blocking - Custom code injection - Custom style injection If you're looking for a way to easily create quality of life Javacript code snippets for your web browsing experience, give Userscripts a try. Visit the GitHub repository for help or to report bugs: https://github.com/quoid/userscripts/

About

Cookie

Manage your web browser cookies with this open-source tool. Easily view, create, edit, and delete cookies, and import/export them in various formats. Ideal for web development, testing, and enhancing online privacy.

Highlights
  • List all cookies
  • Search cookies
  • Create, edit, delete cookies
  • Import/export cookies
  • Delete all cookies
  • Customizable interface
Features
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Cookie-Editor is designed to have a simple to use interface that let you do most standard cookie operations. It is ideal for developing and testing web pages or even manual management of cookies for your privacy. Be careful! Do not share your cookies with anyone you do not trust! Cookies can contain very sensitive information like your login information. If you share your cookies with someone, they could gain full access to your account and compromise it. Feature list: - List all cookies for the current tab. - Search your cookies. - Create, edit and delete your cookies. - Import and export your cookies in many formats (JSON, Netscape, Header string) - Quickly delete all cookies for the current tab. - Customizable: chose what extra data to see, what theme to use (light or dark), the amount of detail to see (advanced mode). Cookie-Editor can help you: - Develop web pages. - Improve your SEO work. - Manage your cookies for privacy. - Improve your browsing experience. Cookie-Editor believes in privacy. Your Cookies are safe and all of your data remains offline. For all feature requests or bug report, please visit the GitHub repository and fill an issue https://github.com/Moustachauve/cookie-editor

Screenshots

Userscripts4 screens
Cookie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Userscripts at 4.3 against Cookie's 3.4. Userscripts also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 40%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Userscripts holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 181 and 91 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Userscripts's written reviews are positive against 40% of Cookie's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Userscripts ships an update monthly, Cookie every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Userscripts versus Cookie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUserscriptsCookie
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (181 ratings) — better3.4 (91 ratings)
Positive reviews78.1% of reviews — better40.4% of reviews
Number of ratings181 — better91
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#24 — better#30
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.4
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin WasackChristophe Gagnier

Customer experience

Userscripts

All ratings181 ratings
Positive82.3%
Neutral2.2%
Negative15.5%
Written reviews251 reviews
Positive78.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative16.3%

Cookie

All ratings91 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral4.4%
Negative38.5%
Written reviews99 reviews
Positive40.4%
Neutral5.1%
Negative54.5%

User reviews

Userscripts

From 181 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Works well to inject CSS on iPad in Safari
  • 👍 Best thing since sliced bread
  • 💡 Allows you to do thousands of things that were previously desktop only
  • 🔒 Very stable and works flawlessly with Safari
  • 👍 Excellent Safari extension

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Satisfactory to an extent, stops working sometimes
  • 🐛 Broke until reinstall
  • 🐛 Slowed my Safari down to a crawl
  • 🐛 Unpredictable when it applies scripts, but still useful
  • 🐛 It's been way too unpredictable for a while now

Cookie

From 91 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Works for some users
  • 👍 Free and open source
  • 👍 Useful for data migration
  • 👍 Good for privacy control
  • 👍 Works on macOS

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Does not work on iOS 18
  • 🐛 Does not work on newer iOS versions
  • 🐛 Does not work on Sequoia update
  • 🐛 Does not work on MacOS updates
  • 🐛 Extension not loading

Bugs and requests

Userscripts

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Failed to load user data
  • Saying there's an error when trying to download something
  • Won't work, keeps saying there's an issue and retry
  • Disappeared from Safari preferences and won't return after troubleshooting

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for Safari Tech Preview
  • Allow editing of userscripts from the browser extension popup
  • Allow creation of a new script from the Safari Extension for the current site
  • Allow specifying the order in which scripts should be loaded
  • Add support for running scripts in normal mode, private mode or both

Cookie

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Extension cannot be loaded
  • Manifest version error
  • No cookies detected
  • Not working on iOS 18
  • Not working on MacOS updates
Show 4 more
  • Not working after Sequoia update
  • Not clearing cookies
  • Not exporting all cookies
  • Hacking/scam reports (potential security issue)

Requested features

6 requests
  • Update for iOS 18 compatibility
  • Update for newer MacOS versions
  • Fix extension loading issues
  • Remove intrusive advertising
  • Improve cookie parsing for import
Show 1 more
  • Add option to show all cookies

In-app purchases

None

Userscripts

No in-app purchases

None

Cookie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Userscripts free?
Userscripts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cookie free?
Cookie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Userscripts or Cookie?
Userscripts is rated higher. Userscripts averages 4.3 out of 5 from 181 ratings, while Cookie averages 3.4 from 91 ratings.
Do Userscripts or Cookie have ads?
Neither Userscripts nor Cookie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Userscripts or Cookie?
Userscripts ships an update monthly, and Cookie every 4 months. Most recently, Userscripts was updated on September 28, 2026 and Cookie on September 27, 2026.
Which is more popular, Userscripts or Cookie?
Userscripts currently peaks at #24 in the App Store charts, and Cookie at #30. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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