Dark Mode for browser vs wBlock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dark Mode for browser
Enhance your browsing experience by automatically applying a dark theme to all websites. You can easily toggle this feature on or off, and choose to apply it to a single page or all pages.
- Automatic dark mode for all websites
- Toggle dark mode on/off
- Apply to single page
- Apply to all pages
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Automatically added dark mood to every website you visit Shipley tap on turn on allow only one page Allow for all page
wBlock
Enhance Safari browsing with an ad blocker that supports userscripts for custom features, offers lightning-fast performance with low RAM usage, and provides complete control over blocking. It ensures privacy with a design that runs within Safari's API and is completely free and open-source.
- Userscript support for custom features
- Lightning-fast performance with low RAM usage
- Complete control over blocking
- Privacy-first design
- Comprehensive ad and tracker blocking
- Free and open-source
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wBlock is a free, open-source ad blocker for Safari. It blocks ads and trackers all over the web with more than 750,000 filter rules, and it never asks you to subscribe. Blocks ads in Safari wBlock leans on Safari's own content blocking, so pages come up clean and fast. Lists like AdGuard Base and EasyList refresh in the background, and you pick which ones run. Handles the sites filters can't Built-in userscripts get past anti-adblock walls and pop-ups. You can drop in your own userscripts and userstyles as well, and Return YouTube Dislike is one tap away. Zap anything you don't want to see The element zapper lets you tap a cookie banner or overlay and hide it, and wBlock remembers it next time you visit. Light on memory wBlock sits at about 40 MB of RAM when idle, so Safari stays quick. Your call on every site Turn blocking off for a site with one tap, or pause wBlock for a while when you need to. Settings sync over iCloud and can be saved to a file. Private by design wBlock collects no data and needs no account. The code lives on GitHub, so anyone can look at what it does. Free for good No subscriptions and no in-app purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: wBlock at 4.8 against Dark Mode for browser's 3.9. wBlock also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 67%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
wBlock holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 175 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Dark Mode for browser's written reviews are positive against 85% of wBlock's.
Dark Mode for browser ships an update fortnightly, wBlock every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dark Mode for browser | wBlock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (64 ratings) | 4.8 (175 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 | 175 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Samsuddin Ahmed Sohag | Alexander Skula |
Customer experience
Dark Mode for browser
wBlock
Bugs and requests
Dark Mode for browser
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
wBlock
Reported bugs
1 issue- Sluggish Safari performance after installation on macOS
Requested features
1 request- Support for Chinese language interface
In-app purchases
Dark Mode for browser
No in-app purchases
wBlock
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Dark Mode for browser free?
Is wBlock free?
Which has better reviews, Dark Mode for browser or wBlock?
Do Dark Mode for browser or wBlock have ads?
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