Wipr 2 vs wBlock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Blocks ads and pop-ups
- Stops website trackers
- Cleans up cookie warnings
- Improves loading speed
- Conserves battery life
- Reduces data usage
- Automatic blocklist updates
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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/
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 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
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.
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.
Wipr 2 ships an update weekly, wBlock every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wipr 2 | wBlock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.3K ratings) | 4.8 (175 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 175 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #2 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kaylee Calderolla | Alexander Skula |
Customer experience
Wipr 2
wBlock
User reviews
Wipr 2
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat 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 ratingsWhat 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
Wipr 2
- Monthly Recurring Tip$1.991 Month
- Filtr$4.991 Year
- Yearly Recurring Tip$9.991 Year
- Tip$4.99
- Mega Tip$19.99
- Filtr$24.99
wBlock
No in-app purchases









