Comparison

Hands vs Lionic Safe Browsing

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

Head to head
About

Hands

Surf the web without touching your screen using hand gestures. Ideal for cooking, repairs, or workouts, it allows vertical scrolling and page navigation. Offers an optional add-on for hands-free favorite page management.

Highlights
  • Hands-free vertical scrolling
  • Gesture-based page navigation
  • Optional 'Hands-free Favorites' add-on
  • Customizable 'drop hand' gesture (iPhone only)
  • Integrated help and feedback
  • Bookmark favorite sites
  • Time spent waiting meter
Features
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Getting your hands dirty? With this app you can surf the web without touching the screen. It's fantastic for reading recipes while you cook, following repair instructions with greasy hands, working out, putting on makeup, or catching up on news while you are doing household chores whilst wearing gloves. This app has also proven useful to people with arthritis, or when fine movement is difficult or painful. You use similar gestures to those you would use on a touch screen, so it feels natural right away. IMPORTANT: watch the video here to see how the gestures work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWI7b9NzQPc Please take 10 seconds to check how to actually use the app before giving it 1 star review! Simply browse the web normally to the page you want, then put down or dock your device. You can now use upwards or downwards hand gestures in front of your phone to scroll the page vertically, or "swipe" sideways to move between your favorite pages. Features • Hands-free Browser has been in the top utility 10 apps in many countries worldwide. • Slick, fully functional web browser with vertical scrolling gesture support • Optional "Hands-free Favorites" add-on lets you navigate through all your favorite pages by swiping, 100% hands-free! • Bonus "Hands-free Favorites" feature: a "drop hand" gesture which you can assign to any browsing action you like! (iPhone only) • Get similar gesture features on your iPhone/iPad to those found on some other latest brands of phones, right now! • Integrated help and feedback tips to show you how the gestures work right away. • Bookmark your favorite sites quickly and easily. • Turn off the on-screen help, for advanced users. • "Time spent waiting for load" meter. See how much of your life you are wasting while waiting for webpages to load! • Prompt support from the developer, accessible from within the app. If you want a feature added or have some problems, the developer is happy to help. This app uses the front-facing camera and computer vision algorithms to detect hand motion over the device camera. It works reliably under normal lighting conditions, from distances of 20cm up to 1 metre.

About

Lionic Safe Browsing

Features
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How long can we browse our favorite sites without being bothered? Can you imagine that everytime when we want to focus on work; we want to protect children against inappropriate contents or we want to enjoy surfing the web, but the web pages are not what we want to see? Thus, we need an assistant to help us to solve the dilemma and Lionic Safe Browsing does a wonderful job! The app fits for everyone. No matter what roles we play, it can assist us to browse the website safely. Different from other similar apps, Lionic Safe Browsing is a user friendly and an intuitive app. Its features will be described in detail: ● Category: We prepared six most common used categories options for user to choose. Users can easily select the categories to be blocked. ● Exception: After blocking categories are chosen, users may still have some exceptions. In this case, users can add the blocked / allowed websites to the list. If users don’t know the websites belong to which category, they can type the keyword or URL by themselves to the blocked or allowed list. ● Record: Users can review the information of the websites which has been blocked. Can we remember the website’s blocked date or want to check the usage of children? Don’t worry! Just click the calendar to search them! If you have any questions, please contact us at the following link: https://www.lionic.com/contact/

Screenshots

Hands4 screens
Lionic Safe Browsing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lionic Safe Browsing at none against Hands's 1. Lionic Safe Browsing also leads on ads (none vs shown). Hands's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hands sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lionic Safe Browsing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hands ships an update monthly, Lionic Safe Browsing every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hands versus Lionic Safe Browsing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandsLionic Safe Browsing
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB11 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJames HudsonLionic Corp.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hands

One-time1
  • Hands-free Favorites$1.99
None

Lionic Safe Browsing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hands free?
Hands is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lionic Safe Browsing free?
Lionic Safe Browsing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hands or Lionic Safe Browsing have ads?
Hands shows ads; Lionic Safe Browsing does not.
Which is updated more often, Hands or Lionic Safe Browsing?
Hands ships an update monthly, and Lionic Safe Browsing every 3 months. Most recently, Hands was updated on September 9, 2026 and Lionic Safe Browsing on September 10, 2026.

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