Banish vs Commandeck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Banish
This Safari extension blocks intrusive "Open in App" popups and other website annoyances on your iPhone and iPad. Enjoy a cleaner browsing experience without unwanted interruptions or dark patterns.
- Blocks 'Open in App' popups
- Removes website dark patterns
- One-time purchase
- Private and data-free
- Simple to enable
- Fast and efficient
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BANISH. The #1 Safari Extension to block annoying 'Open in App' popups & other dark patterns on the web. “Banish does one thing and does it well: it nukes dickpanels in Safari on iPhone and iPad” — John Gruber, Daring Fireball "The app proved incredibly useful. For instance, when on Quora, clicking a link to another Quora page would normally pop up a blocker that requires you to log in to continue navigating the website. With Banish, this pop-up was gone and you could use the site normally" — Sarah Perez, TechCrunch PRIVATE Banish does not collect or store any of your data - nothing leaves your device. BUY ONCE Just a one-time purchase and Banish is yours. No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no ads, no nonsense. FAST The app performs the minimal, necessary changes to block popups and free up screen space. SIMPLE It's as easy as downloading the app and enabling it in Safari settings. No maintenance needed. MODERN Banish is written in Apple's latest programming paradigm Swift UI and Safari Extension functionality. --- NOTE: Even with Banish, Smart Banners can still appear at the top for apps you have installed. They can't be removed because they're built into Safari. Need Help? Contact us at BanishForSafari@gmail.com
Commandeck
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Commandeck is a Magic the Gathering EDH Commander deck builder for iPhone, built around two questions: what is the format actually playing, and what can you build with the cards you already own? Every number comes with the sample size behind it. DECKS YOU CAN ALMOST BUILD Scan your cards, add them by name or import a CSV from another collection app, and Commandeck holds your collection against the usual deck of over 1,500 commanders. See the decks you are closest to, the key cards you own for each, and what it costs to finish them, partners and backgrounds included. One tap creates the deck with your cards, with the missing ones waiting in the maybeboard. BUY ONLY WHAT YOU ARE MISSING Every decklist, yours or someone else's, marks the cards you already own, and the buy button sends only the missing ones to the shop you choose. UPGRADE ON A BUDGET Pick $25, $50 or $100, keep your bracket, choose what to improve, and get the swaps with prices and how many decks run each card. Any card in your deck shows cheaper alternatives that do the same job. WHAT OTHER PLAYERS RUN Pick any commander and see the cards played alongside it, grouped by theme, with real inclusion rates from Commandeck's own nightly crawl of published decklists. New cards are ranked by the decks that have picked them up since they came out. BRACKETS AND POWER LEVEL See where your deck sits on the official Commander bracket scale, from 1 to 5, and exactly which game changers, tutors, extra turns and land denial put it there. Useful the evening before game night. NEW SETS FOR YOUR DECKS For every new set, even before release, see which cards fit each of your decks and why, and preorder just those. Cards parked in your maybeboard tell you when they get cheaper. COMMANDER DECK BUILDER Build 100-card EDH decks with live checks for singleton, color identity and commander legality. Import a deck from a link or a pasted list, and share it as a link that friends can open on the web without the app, as an image, or as text. ANALYSIS AND OPENING HANDS Compare your mana curve with the average deck for your commander, check your mana base and the roles of your cards, and draw test hands under London mulligan rules with exact odds of keeping, flooding or missing land drops. CARD SEARCH Search every card by name or rules text, filter by color, type and mana value, or point the camera at a card to look it up. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS No sign-up and no advertising. Your decks and your collection stay on your iPhone, and a deck you have already opened stays readable without a connection. The app measures how it is used, with no advertising identifier and nothing sold or shared, and a switch in About turns that off. Card data and images courtesy of Scryfall. Inclusion rates from Commandeck's own crawl of published decklists. Community decklists from Archidekt. Commander play statistics from playgroup.gg, used under CC BY 4.0. Purchase links to TCGplayer may earn Commandeck a commission. Privacy policy: https://commandeck.github.io/privacy.html Commandeck is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Commandeck at Free against Banish's $2.99. Commandeck also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Banish's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Commandeck is free to download; Banish costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Banish ships an update every 3 weeks, Commandeck every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Banish | Commandeck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (263 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 39.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 263 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Big Pineapple LLC | David Ferrandiz |
Bugs and requests
Banish
Reported bugs
3 issues- Breaks Twitter functionality
- Causes issues with Reddit and other sites
- Doesn't work on YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn
Requested features
3 requests- More granular control/whitelisting
- Statistics/logging feature
- Improved compatibility with more websites
Commandeck
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Banish
No in-app purchases
Commandeck
No in-app purchases









