Comparison

Customize Search Engine vs Sink It for Twitter/X

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

Head to head
About

Customize Search Engine

This Safari extension lets you customize your default search engine and settings. Easily switch between preferred search engines, including AI assistants, and modify options like hiding AI Overviews or changing language. It offers quick search shortcuts and emoji search functionality.

Highlights
  • Customize default search engine
  • Use custom search engines in Private Browse
  • Quick search with keywords
  • Emoji search on Emojipedia
  • Switch search engines by shortcuts
Features
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Safari Extension to customize your search engine. This extension allows you to use your preferred search engines, such as non-default search engines or AI assistants. You can also use it to change search engine settings, for example, by hiding AI Overviews or changing language settings. ### Features ### --- Customize your Search Engine Change Safari's default search engine. --- CSE for Private Browse Switch search engines in Private Browse. --- Quick Search Enter the keyword to switch search engines. Example: - Search "br something" to search in Brave Search - Search "wiki Safari" to find Safari on Wikipedia - Search "yt Me at the zoo" to find the oldest videos on YouTube - Search "wbm example.com" to see past versions of the website --- Emoji Search If you enter only one emoji, you can search it on Emojipedia.org. --- Switch Search Engines by Shortcuts and Focus You can use a different custom search engine or disable CSE while at work, school, etc.

About

Sink It for Twitter/X

This Safari extension enhances the web version of a popular social platform by removing intrusive banners, promotional content, and advertisements. It allows users to customize their experience by reverting to the old logo and removing verification badges, all while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • Removes app download banners
  • Hides login prompts
  • Eliminates promotional content
  • Removes blue check marks
  • Restores old Twitter logo
  • Privacy-focused on-device blocking
Features
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Sink It for Twitter/X is a hyper focused Safari extension that makes Twitter/X's web version usable, and more importantly, let's you meme Musk back. Tired of seeing tons of banners and buttons asking you to use the app or login? Sink It silently, and safely, removes all of them too. Removes most of the "promotional" content too! Additionally, remove those spammy blue check marks as well as go back to using the old, iconic Twitter logo. Take that X! Privacy First -------------- Sink It has been built with a privacy first approach. - All the blocking happens on your device with literally ZERO data being recorded or sent back to be data mined. - We don't keep usage data like the count of how many popups and banners it has blocked or links it has redirected. - We don't even come with basic app analytics or telemetry to keep track of how many times you've opened or use the app. - It does check whether you have dark mode on or not so it can show you the correct tutorial video. (I hate opening a bright video on dark mode as much as you.) If you're a security researcher, feel free to poke around to make sure the app isn't up to anything funky. Make the "MODERN" Twitter/X Experience Usable ------------------------------------------- Sink It for Twitter/X de-clutters and removes most “omfg please use our app” banners and buttons as well as removing advertisements. Twitter/X, wants me, and by extension you, to use their apps to consume content. Harder for us to block ads and much easier for them to scoop up your data, right? To further that agenda, simply browsing their sites on Safari now means we’re inundated with, well, waves of crap. It might be a modal covering half the screen with links to the App Store, an immediate popup asking you to login, or a header screaming “the app is 10x better”. Bottomline: it has to go. All of it.

Screenshots

Customize Search Engine3 screens
Sink It for Twitter/X4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sink It for Twitter/X at none against Customize Search Engine's 1. Customize Search Engine's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Customize Search Engine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sink It for Twitter/X asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Customize Search Engine holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 66 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Customize Search Engine's written reviews are positive against 70% of Sink It for Twitter/X's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Customize Search Engine ships an update every 9 days, Sink It for Twitter/X every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Customize Search Engine versus Sink It for Twitter/X: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCustomize Search EngineSink It for Twitter/X
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (66 ratings) — better4.2 (30 ratings)
Positive reviews78.0% of reviews — better70.0% of reviews
Number of ratings66 — better30
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCizzuk ShihuTony Sundharam

Customer experience

Customize Search Engine

All ratings66 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral1.5%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral5.1%
Negative16.9%

Sink It for Twitter/X

All ratings30 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Customize Search Engine

One-time1
  • Change App icon$0.99
None

Sink It for Twitter/X

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Customize Search Engine free?
Customize Search Engine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sink It for Twitter/X free?
Sink It for Twitter/X is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Customize Search Engine or Sink It for Twitter/X?
Customize Search Engine is rated higher. Customize Search Engine averages 4.4 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while Sink It for Twitter/X averages 4.2 from 30 ratings.
Do Customize Search Engine or Sink It for Twitter/X have ads?
Neither Customize Search Engine nor Sink It for Twitter/X shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Customize Search Engine or Sink It for Twitter/X?
Customize Search Engine ships an update every 9 days, and Sink It for Twitter/X every 3 weeks. Most recently, Customize Search Engine was updated on September 24, 2026 and Sink It for Twitter/X on September 19, 2026.

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