Comparison

Maxthon Browser vs Alook Browser

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Maxthon Browser

A mobile web browser designed for a streamlined and personalized experience. It offers a fresh interface, enhanced features like customizable favorites, and tools for privacy and eye comfort.

Highlights
  • New UI design
  • Re-planned homepage layout
  • Optimized feature layout
  • Enhanced favorites with text and images
  • Personalized data treasure chest
  • Incognito mode
  • Night mode
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The world changes every day but our beliefs remain the same. We firmly believe that good interaction is less while good product is neither more nor less, and good experience always comes from the heart. A fresh new Maxthon Browser for iPhone will become the treasure chest for you on mobile Internet. We made great efforts in this revision in a visual sense to get rid of complicated design. According to a large amount of users' feedback, we perfectly combined design and practical features to build a browser that suits you like no one does. Named “The Best Browser” by famous North American and European agencies many times : Download82 2017 Software 5-Star Award DEAL crunch 2017 Editor’s Choice About.com Most Popular Browser Award Share Networks Full-Stars Recommendation Award ...... All Awards can be checked here: http://www.maxthon.com/awards New Features: 【Video Enhancement】Support video speed adjustment, floating pop-up video and background video playback for a better viewing experience. 【Userscript Support】Tampermonkey userscript engine available to customize web pages and unlock more possibilities. 【Webpage Read Aloud】Text-to-speech for web content, free your eyes and listen to articles on the go. 【New design】Global UI interaction、fresh new design style; 【New Homepage】Re-planned page layout from traditional two-stage to three-stage, easily to view. 【New Layout】Optimized on overall features level, which highlighted the often used main features according to users feedback, greatly improved the convenience of operations. 【New Favorites】Breaking the traditional Favorites structure that can only save URL, re-identifying the favorites feature that can conclude pictures and text content. 【Personal Customized】 The new Maxthon Browser will not only be your information access platform, but rather your personal customized treasure chest for data that comes with a powerful edition of notes, password management, and numerous extensions. Others feature: 【Incognito mode】Browsing on the incognito mode will never record your cache, Cookie, history, and download record. 【Night mode】Make adjustments to brightness to reduce the damage to the eyes when browsing at night. More Info: Report Bug: http://www.maxthon.com/mx/bug/post/ Help Center: http://www.maxthon.com/mx5/help/question/ Contact us:contact@maxthon.com Website: http://www.maxthon.com/ Maxthon Community: http://www.maxthon.com/ Facebook:www.facebook.com/maxthon Twitter:www.twitter.com/Maxthon YouTube:www.youtube.com/MaxthonCloudBrowser LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/company/maxthon-international-limited

About

Alook Browser

This minimalist browser offers lightning-fast speeds with no ads or notifications. Enjoy advanced audio/video playback, robust file management, an e-book reader, and a powerful ad blocker. It supports extensive customization and privacy features for a streamlined web experience.

Highlights
  • Lightning-fast browsing speed
  • Advanced audio/video playback
  • Comprehensive file management
  • Integrated e-book reader
  • Built-in ad blocker
  • Customizable website settings
  • Private browsing mode
Features
Currently charting
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Alook is a minimalist yet powerful browser, built to be the best browser for iOS. Core Features - Lightning-fast experience: no push notifications, no news, no ads, and millisecond-level startup. - Audio and video: floating playback, speed control (0.5x-16.0x), background playback, AirPlay, DLNA, mini player, single-track loop, picture-in-picture, screenshots, mirroring, long-press speed control, and more. - File management: manual downloads, unzip/compress (zip, rar, 7z, including encrypted archives), create/edit files, open as plain text, choose file encoding, import from Photos, move/copy files, Wi-Fi transfer, and more. - E-book reader: supports txt, pdf, epub, kindle, mobi, azw, azw3, azw4, prc, and pdb, with Simplified/Traditional Chinese conversion. - Reading mode: smart pagination, Simplified/Traditional Chinese conversion, designed for novels. - Image mode: batch save and image compression. - Ad blocker: built-in Adblock Plus with multilingual rules, third-party rules, custom ad marking, and intrusive ad blocking. - Custom search engines: automatically detects search boxes on webpages so you can add them quickly. - Translation: built-in translation for 14 languages, including full-page and selected-text translation. - JavaScript extensions: run custom JS code. - File sharing: works with iOS Files and iTunes file sharing. - Device support: iPhone, iPhone XS Max, iPad Pro, and cross-device sync. - Website settings: configure floating video, ad blocking, no-image mode, clipboard access, and JavaScript per site. - iPad support: Split View and drag and drop. Other Features - iCloud sync for bookmarks, custom ad rules, search engines, and plugins. - Private/incognito browsing. - Custom immersive wallpapers. - Next-page preloading. - Custom site icons. - BigBang text selection. - Handoff support. - Auto-refresh. - Pull to refresh webpages. - Pull down on the home page to search. - Custom website home page. - Full-page screenshots. - Developer tools: view source, Eruda, vConsole, Cookie management. - Night mode: OLED pure black mode and eye-care webpage colors. - No-image mode: smart no-image browsing. - Full-screen mode: swipe to hide the toolbar. - Find in page. - Site search with the default search engine. - Password manager support: 1Password, LastPass, Avast Passwords, and more. - QR code tools: scan, recognize QR codes in images, and generate QR codes from links. - Desktop/mobile site switching with custom User-Agent support. - Block redirects to the App Store. - Print and create PDFs. - Quickly enter URLs and open copied URLs. - Page-turn buttons and tap-to-turn. - Swipe back from anywhere. - View site certificates. - Touch ID or Face ID authentication. - Custom long-press shortcuts. - Import and export bookmarks. - Custom fonts, language, page swipe speed, and screen rotation lock. Privacy and Security - Data protection: account, password, and activity data are not uploaded. - Incognito mode: browsing history, cache, and cookies are not saved. - Data storage: unlike browsers that store bookmarks and data in a developer database, Alook stores bookmarks and data in the user’s private iCloud database, accessible only by the user. User Reviews - keeyang1985: Conscientious software. I like it very much, and it is worth the price. Small, fast, and free of unnecessary clutter. It is the browser I have always wanted. - Wen Jing: The happiness brought by a good app is hard to beat. I might have missed the best browser I have ever used. Other browsers scatter features everywhere; Alook brings them together and is excellent value for the price. If you have any questions before or after purchase, please contact us. X/Twitter: AlookBrowser Email: AlookApp@qq.com

Screenshots

Maxthon Browser4 screens
Alook Browser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Maxthon Browser at Free against Alook Browser's $0.99. Alook Browser's advantage is chart position (#36 vs unranked) and ratings volume (2.6K vs 702). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Maxthon Browser is free to download; Alook Browser costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Maxthon Browser against 4.6 for Alook Browser. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 702 and 2.6K respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 69% and 70% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Maxthon Browser ships an update every 3 weeks, Alook Browser every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Maxthon Browser versus Alook Browser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaxthon BrowserAlook Browser
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.5 (702 ratings)4.6 (2.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.4% of reviews69.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7022.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#36 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB28 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMaxthon Technology LimitedBaoding Lehuo Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Maxthon Browser

All ratings702 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral3.4%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews222 reviews
Positive69.4%
Neutral5.4%
Negative25.2%

Alook Browser

All ratings2,620 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative6.4%
Written reviews338 reviews
Positive69.5%
Neutral9.8%
Negative20.7%

User reviews

Maxthon Browser

From 702 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and efficient browsing
  • 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
  • 🔒 Secure and private browsing
  • 💡 Useful features like cloud sync and note-taking

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 👎 Cluttered and confusing UI after updates
  • 🚫 Forced login/account creation

Alook Browser

From 2.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast browsing
  • 🔒 Effective ad blocking
  • 👍 Highly customizable
  • 💡 Powerful video features (floating, background playback)
  • 👍 Clean, intuitive interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezes
  • 🐛 YouTube ads not blocked
  • 🐛 Video quality issues (e.g. only 360p on YouTube)
  • 🐛 Difficulty setting as default browser
  • 🐛 Inconsistent behavior with certain websites

Bugs and requests

Maxthon Browser

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Freezing and unresponsiveness
  • Bookmark and history sync issues
  • Incompatibility with older devices
  • Problems with file downloads and attachments

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved tab management
  • Ability to customize homepage and bookmarks
  • Better video/audio playback support

Alook Browser

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Background video playback not working after recent update
  • Search bar freezes or becomes unresponsive
  • Certain websites fail to load properly
  • Inconsistent behavior when closing tabs

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add support for custom search engines
  • Implement a 'Find in Page' feature
  • Allow customization of the quick options toolbar
  • Add ability to block 3rd party cookies
  • Import support for popular ad block lists
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  • Implement automatic dark/light mode switching
  • Add support for video speed control beyond 2x
  • Improve video playback controls (e.g. seek, volume)
  • Implement tab sync across devices
  • Add support for file/video downloads

In-app purchases

None

Maxthon Browser

No in-app purchases

None

Alook Browser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Maxthon Browser free?
Maxthon Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Alook Browser free?
Alook Browser costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Maxthon Browser or Alook Browser?
Alook Browser is rated higher. Maxthon Browser averages 4.5 out of 5 from 702 ratings, while Alook Browser averages 4.6 from 2.6K ratings.
Do Maxthon Browser or Alook Browser have ads?
Neither Maxthon Browser nor Alook Browser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maxthon Browser or Alook Browser?
Maxthon Browser ships an update every 3 weeks, and Alook Browser every 2 weeks. Most recently, Maxthon Browser was updated on October 13, 2026 and Alook Browser on October 15, 2026.

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