Comparison

Wipr 2 vs Where Now?

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

Where Now?

This app helps you track your past locations, either manually or automatically. It offers fine-grained controls for background activity and keeps all location data on your device. You can optionally integrate it with a self-hosted remote endpoint.

Highlights
  • Manual location tracking
  • Automatic location tracking
  • Background activity controls
  • On-device data storage
  • Optional self-hosted endpoint integration
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Where Now? is an application for keeping track of where you've been either manually or automatically using background activity with fine-grained controls. All location data is captured entirely on device, and can optionally be integrated with a (free) open-source self-hosted remote endpoint.

Screenshots

Wipr 24 screens
Where Now?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Where Now? at Free against Wipr 2's $4.99. Where Now? also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Wipr 2's advantage is ratings volume (1.3K vs 3) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads 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

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Where Now? holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wipr 2 has 1.3K ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of Where Now?'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wipr 2 ships an update weekly, Where Now? every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Wipr 2 versus Where Now?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWipr 2Where Now?
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (1.3K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K — better3
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#3 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKaylee CalderollaScott Boms

Customer experience

Wipr 2

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

Where Now?

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Where Now?

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

Where Now?

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wipr 2 free?
Wipr 2 costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Where Now? free?
Where Now? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wipr 2 or Where Now??
Where Now? is rated higher. Wipr 2 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Where Now? averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Wipr 2 or Where Now? have ads?
Neither Wipr 2 nor Where Now? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wipr 2 or Where Now??
Wipr 2 ships an update weekly, and Where Now? every 2 weeks. Most recently, Wipr 2 was updated on October 23, 2026 and Where Now? on September 30, 2026.

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