Weblock vs Tracker Protection
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weblock
This app offers robust ad blocking and content control for iOS devices. It allows users to manage proxy settings, block ads, social media widgets, and custom content, enhancing privacy and browsing experience. Setup is quick and easy, with iCloud sync for filters and rules.
- Ad blocking for web and apps
- Customizable content filters
- Proxy server management
- Social media widget blocking
- iCloud sync for filters
- Safari Content Blocker integration
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• #1 ad blocking solution for iOS, available since 2012 • Over 750 000 app downloads worldwide • No in-app purchases, no subscription. Simple one-time payment • Top Utility ranked in all App Stores around the world • Over 1000+ carefully crafted filters • Easy setup in under 1 minute with detailed tutorial • Now with built-in Safari Content Blocker for better web ad protection Weblock allows you to control how your device fetches online content. Easily manage PAC (Proxy Auto-Config) script and route different connections through different proxy servers. Weblock can make your device download ads (banners and popups), stats and user tracking, scripts or images through a proxy server you pick. It also allows you to use a different proxy for specific websites, like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, social widgets from websites. You can even define your own content filters. With Weblock you can control proxy for basically any network resource! This way you can choose not to reveal your real IP to different services, limit advanced ad targeting and protect your privacy. IMPORTANT NOTICE: You're responsible for selecting a proxy server that allows you to download content you wish to download. We DO NOT provide a proxy service. Using a bad proxy server (like 127.0.0.1:8021) might result in some resources being blocked. You can control your proxy settings selectively with Weblock. Contact our support if you need help choosing right proxy server or setting up Weblock on your device. Here are some situations in which Weblock might come in handy: • Fetch ads through a proxy server you choose. Protect your privacy and prevent ad servers from knowing your real IP address and tracking you. • Disable majority of ads on websites you visit on your iOS device! Weblock supports all major web browsers: Safari, Chrome, Mercury and others (browsers redirecting web traffic through third-party servers like Puffin Browser or Opera Mini are not be supported). • Easily remove all native Facebook widgets and plugins (Like buttons, comments, etc.) on sites you visit - simply disable Facebook plugins in Weblock! Do the same for Twitter, Google+ and other social media. • Stop annoying Tapatalk popups, nagging you to download forum browsing app on every visit. • Take control of someone else's device - you can preconfigure any iOS device to control it with your Weblock app. Block or redirect any content, anytime, directly from your own device. • Your predefined filters and custom rules can be synced between all your iOS devices using iCloud. • If you wish to block something else, you can create your own rules and filters. You can block any URL (with regular expressions), domain or IP address. Don't know how? Let us know - we're here for you. • You can also use Weblock's redirect feature to emulate '/etc/hosts' entries for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This might be useful for web and app developers to pin domains to different IP addresses. ••• IMPORTANT! ••• Need help setting up Weblock? Contact our support directly through the app.
Tracker Protection
This app shields your device from hidden trackers that collect personal data across apps, browsers, and email. It enhances security, speeds up performance, and encrypts your DNS to prevent surveillance.
- Blocks trackers in apps, browsers, and email
- Encrypts DNS lookups
- Prevents surveillance
- Speeds up page and app loads
- Reduces bandwidth usage
- Improves battery life
- Customizable protection options
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Trackers follow you everywhere — in apps, browsers, and emails — building profiles that advertisers and data brokers sell, and AI-powered attackers weaponize. Tracker Protection stops them. HOW IT WORKS Tracker Protection runs at the DNS layer. Every domain your device tries to look up routes through our encrypted DNS resolver. So every time an app or website tries to connect to a known tracker, our technology blocks the connection before the tracker can do anything. No scripts run. No data leaves. No profile gets built. — Blocks thousands of tracker domains before they collect your data — Encrypts every DNS lookup so your ISP, carrier, and Wi-Fi network can't see what sites and apps you're using — Works system-wide: every app, every browser, every email client on your device FREE — Default tracker blocking, always on — Encrypted DNS for every lookup PREMIUM Everything in Free, plus: — Activity dashboard: see what was blocked, on which sites — Per-vendor controls — Facebook, Google, Amazon, TikTok, Snapchat — choose protection level for each — Block email tracking pixels — Block fingerprinting scripts — Block cryptomining WHY DISCONNECT — No logs. We don't see, store, or sell your data. Ever. — Not a VPN. No server list, no sign-in, no slowdowns. — Built by Disconnect, the industry standard for tracker protection. Our technology powers tracker blocking in Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge to help protect 350M+ users worldwide. — Pages load up to 2.4× faster when trackers aren't dragging them down. — Awards: SXSW Interactive Innovation Award (Privacy & Security), Popular Science Best of What's New, The New York Times' favorite privacy app. ONCE ON, IT STAYS ON After install, Tracker Protection runs in the background. Close the app and use your device normally — protection stays active across every app, browser, and email client. ABOUT DISCONNECT We've spent 15 years building the world's most-deployed tracker classification dataset. Firefox, Edge, and consumer privacy products around the world ship with our work inside them. Now it's an app on your phone. Take back your privacy. Start free. PRIVACY POLICY https://disconnect.me/privacy TERMS OF USE https://disconnect.me/terms SUPPORT support@disconnect.me
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tracker Protection at Free against Weblock's $1.99. Weblock's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (4.9K vs 78). 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
Tracker Protection is free to download; Weblock costs $1.99 up front. Tracker Protection sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Weblock asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Weblock against 4.2 for Tracker Protection. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weblock has 4.9K ratings behind it against 78, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 52% of Weblock's written reviews are positive against 55% of Tracker Protection's.
Weblock ships an update every 3 months, Tracker Protection every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weblock | Tracker Protection |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (4.9K ratings) — better | 4.2 (78 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.7% of reviews | 54.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.9K — better | 78 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AdBlock Labs | Disconnect |
Customer experience
Weblock
Tracker Protection
Bugs and requests
Weblock
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on startup
- Disables internet connectivity
- Proxy settings not saving properly
- Doesn't work with some websites and apps
Requested features
4 requests- Support for iOS 15 and newer
- Simpler setup process
- More granular control over blocked content
- Ability to block ads on cellular data
Tracker Protection
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Weblock
No in-app purchases
Tracker Protection
- Premier Plus7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premier Plus7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Day Pass Tracker Protection$0.99
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