Snowbunny Private Web Browser vs Advanced Search Smart Options
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Snowbunny Private Web Browser
Experience a faster, cleaner mobile browsing experience with full-screen and private modes. This app prioritizes speed and privacy by stripping away non-essential features, offering an uncluttered interface for maximum viewable area.
- Super fast browsing
- Full screen mode
- Private browsing
- No history or cookies saved
- HTML 5 compliant
- Portrait & Landscape support
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Introducing Snowbunny: The NEWEST, FASTEST mobile browser for your iPhone and iPad! Spend more time browsing and less time waiting! Also featuring FULL SCREEN BROWSING and PRIVATE BROWSING functionality! Get this essential web browser for you iPhone and iPad today! + it is COMPLETELY FREE! KEY FEATURES: 1. SUPER FAST (even faster loading and displaying than Safari*) 2. FULL SCREEN (beautiful full screen, up to 35% more viewable area^) 3. PRIVATE MODE (leave no history, cookies, or anything behind) 4. COMPLETELY FREE (no ad bars, other than what's already on the web) HOW IT WORKS: 1. SPEED Snowbunny is a highly speed optimised browser using same backend as mobile safari but with code extensively optimized for performance. non-essential features like multi tabs, loading bars have all stripped out to provide an ultra clean, ultra fast, yet fully HTML 5 compliant browser to your mobile device! Our tests show that loading, start up, shutdown, search, and navigation speeds all exceed Safari and other popular browsers by a noticeable margin. 2. FULL SCREEN We've consolidated the top and bottom tool bars as seen in Safari into one context sensitive navigation bar saving plenty of space. In addition this toolbar can be hidden simply by browsing down a web page. As well as this, we've removed the annoying status bar at the top of the screen to gain 100% pixel usage when displaying any web page. You can view web pages beautifully using the maximum screen real-estate. 3. PRIVATE MODE Private mode can be enabled via settings. In private browsing mode all history, cookies, login details are completely cleared when you exit or swap between apps. No one will know where you've been! OTHER FEATURES - Portrait & Landscape support - Scrolling, zooming - Bookmarks - HTML 5 Web videos, audio streaming - Full screen video playback - Context sensitive menus - iPhone, iPod, iPad, iPhone 4 support - Similar UI to Safari. - No autosuggest or auto fill in. - Tiny download so you can get it quickly. More Apps: http://www.savysoda.com * Based on our in-house testing. Not independently verified. ^ 35% more viewable area on iPhone Landscape Mode. 20%+ in iPhone Portrait Mode.
Advanced Search Smart Options
Simplify complex web searches by inputting keywords. This tool automatically generates advanced search queries with operators for precise results. Explore options like exact matches, date ranges, and specific file types.
- Keyword-based advanced search
- Automatic search operator generation
- AND, OR, and exclusion searches
- Numerical and date range filtering
- Specify site, domain, and file type
- Search scope selection (title, content, URL)
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This app allows you to perform advanced web searches with just inputting keywords. Web searches can be conducted using search operators, enabling various search options. However, using search operators often requires combining alphabets and symbols with spaces, which can become cumbersome. For instance, When you want to search for "Apple Inc." articles within Wikipedia's page content, you would need to input the following: allintext: apple -fruit site:wikipedia.org The app automatically generates such commands, enabling you to perform advanced searches by just inputting keywords. The search engine used is Google. Available Search Criteria ・AND search, including all keywords ・Exact match search for keywords ・OR search, including any of the keywords ・Exclusion search, excluding certain keywords from results ・Numerical ranges (e.g., from $1,000 to $5,000, from 3kg to 10kg) ・Range of update dates ・Language ・Region ・Specific sites or domains ・Related sites ・File formats (pdf, doc, xls, ppt, etc.) ・Search scope (page title only, page content only, page URL only, etc.)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snowbunny Private Web Browser at none against Advanced Search Smart Options's 1. Snowbunny Private Web Browser also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Advanced Search Smart Options's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment and device support 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
Both are free to download. Advanced Search Smart Options sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snowbunny Private Web Browser asks for nothing beyond the download.
Snowbunny Private Web Browser holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Snowbunny Private Web Browser has 6.7K ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Snowbunny Private Web Browser's written reviews are positive against 71% of Advanced Search Smart Options's.
Snowbunny Private Web Browser ships an update every 4 months, Advanced Search Smart Options every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snowbunny Private Web Browser | Advanced Search Smart Options |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6.7K ratings) — better | 4.4 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.4% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6.7K — better | 29 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SavySoda | manabu ueda |
Customer experience
Snowbunny Private Web Browser
Advanced Search Smart Options
Bugs and requests
Snowbunny Private Web Browser
Reported bugs
3 issues- Bookmarks not syncing properly
- Refreshing issues when switching between pages
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for tabs
- Implement bookmark management
- Include a dark mode option
- Allow setting a custom homepage
Advanced Search Smart Options
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Snowbunny Private Web Browser
No in-app purchases
Advanced Search Smart Options
- Ad-Free Plan$3.99
Questions
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