Wipr 2 vs Awake
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/
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.
- Prevents screen auto-lock
- Uses Picture-in-Picture
- One-tap start/stop
- Lightweight floating window
- Fast and reliable sessions
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Wipr 2 ships an update weekly, Awake every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wipr 2 | Awake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.6% of reviews — better | 28.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #5 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kaylee Calderolla | Alex Kitcoff |
Customer experience
Wipr 2
Awake
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
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
Awake
No in-app purchases









