Comparison

Ad Blocker · vs Row Pal

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

Head to head
About

Ad Blocker ·

This app helps reduce unwanted advertisements, pop-ups, and trackers while browsing the web in Safari. It aims to improve page loading speeds, conserve data, and enhance privacy by filtering out unnecessary content and known tracking resources.

Highlights
  • Safari ad blocking
  • Built-in privacy protection
  • Anti-tracking features
  • Improved web performance
  • Battery optimization
  • Reduced data usage
  • Video ad filtering
Features
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Ad-Blocker helps reduce ads and selected tracking elements while browsing supported websites in Safari. Minimize popups, banners, video ads, and other advertising content for a cleaner browsing experience. By reducing selected page elements and web requests, Ad-Blocker may also help supported webpages load with fewer unnecessary resources. KEY FEATURES: → Safari Ad Blocking: Helps reduce popups, banners, video ads, and other advertising elements on supported websites in Safari. → Anti-Tracking Protection: Helps reduce requests from known trackers and selected tracking resources while browsing supported websites. → Page Loading Support: By reducing selected advertising elements and web requests, Ad-Blocker may help supported webpages load with fewer unnecessary resources. → Reduced Content Downloads: May help reduce unnecessary content downloads when supported filtering rules are active. → Video Ad Filtering: Helps reduce interruptions from video ads on supported websites in Safari. → Privacy Filter Lists: Enable supported filtering rules designed to reduce selected trackers, social media elements, and third-party web resources. → Web Resource Filtering: Apply supported rules to block selected unwanted web resources while browsing. → Adult Content Filtering: Helps block selected adult-content websites using supported filtering rules. → Language and Region Filters: Enable ad filtering rules for supported languages and regions. → Custom Block List: Create custom filtering rules for selected websites and terms. DISCLAIMER: Ad-Blocker is not guaranteed to block all ads, trackers, websites, or web content. Results may vary depending on website implementation, Safari limitations, enabled filters, and applied filtering rules. Privacy Policy: https://www.pixsterstudio.com/legal-policies/ad-blocker/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.pixsterstudio.com/legal-policies/ad-blocker/terms-of-use

About

Row Pal

This intuitive utility helps crafters keep track of their progress in knitting and crochet projects. Easily increment or decrement your row count, clear the count with a hold, and customize the background color.

Highlights
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Increment/decrement count
  • Hold to clear count
  • Hold background to change color
  • Project progress tracking
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Hold your count to clear! This crochet & knit row counter is easy-to-use with an intuitive UI. Increase and decrease your count, hold your count to clear and hold the background to change color.

Screenshots

Ad Blocker ·4 screens
Row Pal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ad Blocker · at Free against Row Pal's $1.99. Row Pal's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Ad Blocker · is free to download; Row Pal costs $1.99 up front. Ad Blocker · sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Row Pal asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ad Blocker · versus Row Pal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAd Blocker ·Row Pal
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.5 (6.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnish ModanReece Farkash

Customer experience

Ad Blocker ·

All ratings6,151 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral4.8%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews656 reviews
Positive72.4%
Neutral5.8%
Negative21.8%

Row Pal

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Ad Blocker ·

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Frequent crashes
  • Login/setup issues
  • Incompatible with certain devices/OS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • More customization options
  • Expand compatibility to other browsers
  • Improve ad blocking on YouTube
  • Add VPN functionality

Row Pal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Ad Blocker ·

Subscriptions6
  • Ad Blocker Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Ad Blocker Pro1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Ad Blocker Plus Yearly1 Month trial$29.991 Year
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  • Ad Blocker Yearly Offer1 Month trial$29.991 Year
  • Ad Blocker Plus Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Ad Blocker Pro3 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time2
  • Ad Blocker Pro Lifetime$39.99
  • Ad Blocker Lifetime$49.99
None

Row Pal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ad Blocker · free?
Ad Blocker · is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Row Pal free?
Row Pal costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ad Blocker · or Row Pal have ads?
Neither Ad Blocker · nor Row Pal shows ads.

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