Comparison

Wipr 2 vs wBlock

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

Head to head
About

Wipr 2

This app enhances your web browsing experience by blocking ads, trackers, and intrusive pop-ups across websites in Safari. Enjoy faster loading times, improved battery life, and reduced data usage. It offers automatic blocklist updates and supports multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Blocks ads and pop-ups
  • Stops website trackers
  • Cleans up cookie warnings
  • Improves loading speed
  • Conserves battery life
  • Reduces data usage
  • Automatic blocklist updates
Features
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Wipr blocks ads, popups, trackers, cookie warnings, and other nasty things that make the web slow and ugly. Websites in Safari will look clean, load fast, and stop invisibly tracking you. You’ll notice significant improvements to your battery life and data usage. Setup is a snap. Apple featured Wipr in “The Best Safari Extensions”. The Filtr add-on extends Wipr’s blocking to all apps on your devices. It acts at the network level, but unlike a VPN, it can access none of your data, and can be used in conjunction with VPNs, iCloud Private Relay, and custom DNS. Wipr’s blocklist is updated twice a week automatically, and has enhanced versions for the following languages: Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese. Wipr is a universal app: install it on all your devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro) with a single purchase. It’s fully accessible with VoiceOver, Voice Control, and more. Dark, Tinted, and Clear icon variants are included. Family Sharing is supported. Because it’s developed by a single independent developer and 100% funded by its users, Wipr only answers to you: no one can pay to have their ads unblocked, and there are no “acceptable ads”. This app was made with love and patience. I hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed designing and building it. – Kaylee Terms & Conditions: https://kaylees.site/terms-and-conditions.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Wipr 24 screens
wBlock3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: wBlock at Free against Wipr 2's $4.99. wBlock also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.4 vs 17.0). Wipr 2's advantage is chart position (#2 vs unranked) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 175). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

wBlock is free to download; Wipr 2 costs $4.99 up front. Wipr 2 sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. wBlock asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Wipr 2 against 4.8 for wBlock. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wipr 2 has 1.3K ratings behind it against 175, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Wipr 2's written reviews are positive against 85% of wBlock's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wipr 2 ships an update weekly, wBlock every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Wipr 2 versus wBlock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWipr 2wBlock
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (1.3K ratings)4.8 (175 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.4% of reviews84.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K — better175
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#2 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.015.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKaylee CalderollaAlexander Skula

Customer experience

Wipr 2

All ratings1,333 ratings
Positive91.1%
Neutral2.2%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews1,005 reviews
Positive80.4%
Neutral5.3%
Negative14.3%

wBlock

All ratings175 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.1%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive84.8%
Neutral2.5%
Negative12.7%

User reviews

Wipr 2

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Blocks ads effectively
  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🔒 Doesn't slow down Safari
  • 💡 Frequent updates
  • 👍 Responsive developer

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional issues with YouTube ads
  • 🐛 Incompatibility with some websites
  • 🐛 Occasional blank spaces where ads used to be

wBlock

From 175 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 👍 Lightweight and resource-friendly
  • 🔒 Open-source and secure
  • 💡 Highly customizable
  • 👍 Excellent ad blocking performance

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional performance issues on macOS

Bugs and requests

Wipr 2

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Wipr Extra component not always working as expected
  • Occasional high CPU usage when app is left open

Requested features

2 requests
  • Option to disable on specific websites
  • Ability to customize blocking rules

wBlock

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Sluggish Safari performance after installation on macOS

Requested features

1 request
  • Support for Chinese language interface

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Wipr 2

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Recurring Tip$1.991 Month
  • Filtr$4.991 Year
  • Yearly Recurring Tip$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • Tip$4.99
  • Mega Tip$19.99
  • Filtr$24.99
None

wBlock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wipr 2 free?
Wipr 2 costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is wBlock free?
wBlock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wipr 2 or wBlock?
wBlock is rated higher. Wipr 2 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while wBlock averages 4.8 from 175 ratings.
Do Wipr 2 or wBlock have ads?
Neither Wipr 2 nor wBlock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wipr 2 or wBlock?
Wipr 2 ships an update weekly, and wBlock every 2 weeks. Most recently, Wipr 2 was updated on October 15, 2026 and wBlock on October 13, 2026.

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