Comparison

Pips! vs ABrowser

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

Head to head
About

Pips!

Generate custom tone sequences for time synchronization, inspired by global broadcast signals. Control frequency, duration, and volume to create unique 'pips' for personal or professional use. Includes presets from international broadcasters.

Highlights
  • Build custom pip sequences
  • Control frequency, duration, and volume
  • Use built-in presets
  • Recreate historical time signals
  • Generate new tone combinations
Features
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Pips is a tone sequence generator inspired by the alluring & mysterious Greenwich Time Signal and its countless friends broadcast around the world. Both amateur and professional pip connoisseurs have the power to recreate time signals of yore or innovate new combinations of boops that will delight the world's radio lovers and keep things in sync. Become time by becoming boop. This is your goal. Features! - Build a sequence of one or more custom pips and play them through your device. - Control the frequency, duration, and volume of your pips so people of all ages can keep their clocks on time. - Use our built in presets to kickstart your new pip-filled existence. Includes time signals used by international broadcasters like the BBC & CBC as well as time stations like NIST's WWV. Pips will give you the power to tame time by delineating it in your own personal style. Synchronize yourself, your family, your life. You control time now. Congratulations.

About

ABrowser

Features
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ABrowser - Private is a fast, privacy-focused browser for iPhone and iPad. Browse with multiple tabs and organize your browsing into separate profiles, each with its own bookmarks, history, and data. Use private sessions for temporary browsing that leaves no trace. Optional proxy settings are built in for users who already manage their own proxy subscriptions and want browser traffic to follow that route. Privacy is part of the product boundary. ABrowser - Private does not collect page URLs, page titles, search text, bookmark contents, profile names, proxy subscription URLs, proxy server addresses, or proxy node names for analytics. Product analytics can be turned off in Settings. No account is required.

Screenshots

Pips!3 screens
ABrowser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pips! at Free against ABrowser's $3.99. ABrowser's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 25 months). On 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

Pips! is free to download; ABrowser costs $3.99 up front. Pips! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ABrowser asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pips! ships an update every 25 months, ABrowser monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Pips! versus ABrowser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPips!ABrowser
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB137 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJason Thompson一智 刘

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pips!

One-time1
  • Tip Jar$4.99
None

ABrowser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pips! free?
Pips! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ABrowser free?
ABrowser costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pips! or ABrowser have ads?
Neither Pips! nor ABrowser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pips! or ABrowser?
Pips! ships an update every 25 months, and ABrowser monthly. Most recently, Pips! was updated on September 30, 2026 and ABrowser on October 28, 2026.

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