StopTheScript vs Gnome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StopTheScript
This Safari extension for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS blocks all JavaScript on selected websites. It effectively stops both inline and externally loaded JavaScript, offering more comprehensive control than standard content blockers.
- Blocks all JavaScript
- Stops inline JavaScript
- Stops external JavaScript
- Safari extension
- Supports iOS, iPadOS, macOS
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StopTheScript is a Safari extension for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that stops all JavaScript on your selected websites. StopTheScript is the only Safari extension that stops inline JavaScript on the web page as well as externally loaded JavaScript. This is in contrast to Safari content blockers, which can only block external JavaScript, not inline JavaScript. StopTheScript is made by indie developer Jeff Johnson. If you need support, please email me at stopthescript@underpassapp.com or read the support site at https://underpassapp.com/StopTheScript/support.html
Gnome
Quickly find and share animated GIFs without leaving your current app. Create custom GIFs with text and emojis. Integrates with your Messages app for seamless sharing.
- Instant GIF search
- Custom GIF creator
- Messages app integration
- Clipboard support
- No account required
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Animated GIFs are a critical pillar of modern human communication, but who wants to open a browser, find a website, search, tap and hold, copy, switch back, and hope the GIF pastes the right way? By then the moment has passed, the joke is dead, and what was the point of any of this, really? Open Gnome. Type in your search — Weird Al, hooray, eyebrow raise — and a grid of GIFs appears. Tap the one you want. It’s now on your clipboard. Paste it wherever you were typing. Joke saved. World improved. There's also a custom GIF creator, for when you can't find the perfect GIF: Make one instead! Choose your image, your text, some emojis for sparkle, the perfect font, and you're on your way. And of course there’s a Messages app integration, too, so you can send GIFs with Gnome directly from the Messages app. That’s really the whole app. It does exactly that, and it gets out of the way. No account. No sign-in. No newsletter. Just GIFs, faster. Why is it called Gnome? Because that's how I pronounce the "G" in "GIF."
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Gnome at Free against StopTheScript's $5.99. Gnome also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months). StopTheScript's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Gnome is free to download; StopTheScript costs $5.99 up front. Gnome sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. StopTheScript asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for StopTheScript against 4.5 for Gnome. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 11 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of StopTheScript's written reviews are positive against 67% of Gnome's.
StopTheScript ships an update every 4 months, Gnome every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StopTheScript | Gnome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (31 ratings) — better | 4.5 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.5% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jeff Johnson | Lex Friedman |
Customer experience
StopTheScript
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In-app purchases
StopTheScript
No in-app purchases
Gnome
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