Comparison

Laundry Lens vs Wipr 2

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

Head to head
About

Laundry Lens

Instantly understand laundry care instructions by pointing your camera at clothing labels. Access a comprehensive library to search for symbols and their meanings, ensuring proper garment care for washing, ironing, and professional cleaning.

Highlights
  • Camera-based symbol recognition
  • Instant care instruction display
  • Searchable laundry symbol library
  • Washing, ironing, and professional care symbols
  • Detailed symbol explanations
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Laundry Lens is your ideal laundry assistant. Simply point your camera at a care label, and you'll instantly get the correct instructions for taking care of your clothes. You can also use the Library to search for laundry symbols by their description. Laundry Lens provides a full list of symbols, covering everything from washing and ironing to professional care, ensuring you always know how to handle your garments properly.

About

Wipr 2

This app enhances your web browsing experience by blocking ads, trackers, and popups across Safari and other applications. It improves loading speeds, conserves battery life, and reduces data usage. Enjoy a cleaner, faster, and more private online experience on all your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Blocks ads, trackers, and popups
  • Improves website loading speed
  • Conserves battery life and data usage
  • Extends blocking to all apps via Filtr add-on
  • Automatic blocklist updates
  • Universal app for all Apple devices
  • Supports Family Sharing
Features
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Wipr blocks ads, popups, trackers, cookie warnings, and other nasty things that make the web slow and ugly. Websites in Safari will look clean, load fast, and stop invisibly tracking you. You’ll notice significant improvements to your battery life and data usage. Setup is a snap. Apple featured Wipr in “The Best Safari Extensions”. The Filtr add-on extends Wipr’s blocking to all apps on your devices. It acts at the network level, but unlike a VPN, it can access none of your data, and can be used in conjunction with VPNs, iCloud Private Relay, and custom DNS. Wipr’s blocklist is updated twice a week automatically, and has enhanced versions for the following languages: Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese. Wipr is a universal app: install it on all your devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro) with a single purchase. It’s fully accessible with VoiceOver, Voice Control, and more. Dark, Tinted, and Clear icon variants are included. Family Sharing is supported. Because it’s developed by a single independent developer and 100% funded by its users, Wipr only answers to you: no one can pay to have their ads unblocked, and there are no “acceptable ads”. This app was made with love and patience. I hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed designing and building it. – Kaylee Terms & Conditions: https://kaylees.site/terms-and-conditions.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Laundry Lens4 screens
Wipr 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Laundry Lens at Free against Wipr 2's $4.99. Laundry Lens also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6). Wipr 2's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and chart position (#4 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ads 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

Laundry Lens is free to download; Wipr 2 costs $4.99 up front. Wipr 2 sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Laundry Lens asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Laundry Lens against 4.7 for Wipr 2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 281 and 1.4K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Laundry Lens's written reviews are positive against 81% of Wipr 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Laundry Lens ships an update every 2 months, Wipr 2 weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Laundry Lens versus Wipr 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLaundry LensWipr 2
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.8 (281 ratings) — better4.7 (1.4K ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews80.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2811.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#4 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB14 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlan PegoliKaylee Calderolla

Customer experience

Laundry Lens

All ratings254 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral2.8%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral9.2%
Negative15.8%

Wipr 2

All ratings1,353 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral2.1%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews1,022 reviews
Positive80.6%
Neutral5.2%
Negative14.2%

User reviews

Laundry Lens

From 281 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
  • 🆓 Free app with no data collection or in-app purchases
  • 🎯 Solves a specific practical problem effectively
  • 📱 Works well with VoiceOver accessibility features
  • ⚡ Quick symbol recognition when functioning properly

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Camera focus issues, especially on newer iPhone models (13 Pro, 14 Pro)
  • 🐛 Inconsistent symbol recognition accuracy
  • 🐛 Misreads temperature numbers frequently
  • 🐛 App freezes or hangs when interacting with symbols
  • 🐛 Blurry camera output on some devices

Wipr 2

From 1.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Blocks ads effectively
  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🔒 Doesn't slow down Safari
  • 💡 Frequent updates
  • 👍 Responsive developer

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional issues with YouTube ads
  • 🐛 Incompatibility with some websites
  • 🐛 Occasional blank spaces where ads used to be

Bugs and requests

Laundry Lens

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Camera fails to focus on laundry tags, especially on iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone 14 Pro
  • App hangs or freezes when tapping on symbols
  • Incorrect symbol recognition, often showing opposite instructions
  • Misreads temperature numbers (e.g., shows 40° instead of 30°)
  • Duplicate symbols appearing in results
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  • App doesn't work properly on iOS 15
  • Camera produces grainy, blurry images
  • Doesn't utilize macro lens on newer iPhones
  • Scanning doesn't work reliably on shiny labels
  • UI becomes unresponsive when attempting actions
  • Manual search results don't display information
  • Cannot easily restart scanning without closing app

Requested features

15 requests
  • Garment organization and categorization system
  • Save and manage laundry labels for specific clothing items
  • Black and white symbol display option for better visibility
  • Italian language translation
  • Fahrenheit temperature display option
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  • Photo gallery upload feature instead of camera-only scanning
  • Symbol drawing/handwriting recognition
  • Search symbols by temperature number (e.g., type '30' to find all 30°C variants)
  • Tableware/dishwasher symbols support
  • Macro mode support for iPhone 14 Pro and newer
  • Better camera focus controls (tap to focus, zoom)
  • More obvious scanning completion indicators
  • Browse symbols without adding them to results
  • Clothes management with photos and tags
  • Barcode scanning capability

Wipr 2

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Wipr Extra component not always working as expected
  • Occasional high CPU usage when app is left open

Requested features

2 requests
  • Option to disable on specific websites
  • Ability to customize blocking rules

In-app purchases

None

Laundry Lens

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Wipr 2

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Recurring Tip$1.991 Month
  • Filtr$4.991 Year
  • Yearly Recurring Tip$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • Tip$4.99
  • Mega Tip$19.99
  • Filtr$24.99

Questions

Is Laundry Lens free?
Laundry Lens is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wipr 2 free?
Wipr 2 costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Laundry Lens or Wipr 2?
Laundry Lens is rated higher. Laundry Lens averages 4.8 out of 5 from 281 ratings, while Wipr 2 averages 4.7 from 1.4K ratings.
Do Laundry Lens or Wipr 2 have ads?
Neither Laundry Lens nor Wipr 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Laundry Lens or Wipr 2?
Laundry Lens ships an update every 2 months, and Wipr 2 weekly. Most recently, Laundry Lens was updated on October 22, 2026 and Wipr 2 on November 1, 2026.

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