Comparison

Wipr 2 vs Awake

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

Awake

This utility app prevents your device's screen from automatically locking, ensuring uninterrupted access. It's particularly useful for time-sensitive online queues and events where you need to maintain your position without interruption.

Highlights
  • Prevents screen auto-lock
  • Uses Picture-in-Picture
  • One-tap start/stop
  • Lightweight floating window
  • Fast and reliable sessions
Features
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Keep your screen on when it matters most. Awake starts a lightweight Picture-in-Picture session that helps prevent Auto-Lock on iPhone and iPad. Tap Start to keep your display awake while you wait, read, cook, monitor, or hold your place in a time-sensitive queue. Useful for: - ticket drops and preorder queues - recipes, instructions, timers, and checklists - reference pages, dashboards, and monitoring screens Important: Awake uses iOS Picture in Picture/media playback. While it is active, other audio or video may pause. Simple one-time purchase. No subscriptions. No account. No data collected.

Screenshots

Wipr 24 screens
Awake2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wipr 2 at 81% against Awake's 29%. Wipr 2 also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Awake's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and price ($1.99 vs $4.99). On ads, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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

Wipr 2 costs $4.99 and Awake $1.99 up front. Wipr 2 sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Awake asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wipr 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wipr 2 has 1.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Wipr 2's written reviews are positive against 29% of Awake's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wipr 2 ships an update weekly, Awake every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Wipr 2 versus Awake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWipr 2Awake
Price$4.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews80.6% of reviews — better28.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1.4K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#5 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKaylee CalderollaAlex Kitcoff

Customer experience

Wipr 2

All ratings1,343 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews1,015 reviews
Positive80.6%
Neutral5.2%
Negative14.2%

Awake

Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

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

Awake

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

Awake

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wipr 2 free?
Wipr 2 costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Awake free?
Awake costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wipr 2 or Awake?
Wipr 2 is rated higher. Wipr 2 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Awake averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wipr 2 or Awake have ads?
Neither Wipr 2 nor Awake shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wipr 2 or Awake?
Wipr 2 ships an update weekly, and Awake every 2 months. Most recently, Wipr 2 was updated on October 28, 2026 and Awake on October 24, 2026.

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