Web Roulette! vs StopTheMadness Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Web Roulette!
Discover new webpages with a simple shake or swipe through your favorite sites. This app offers a unique browsing experience by eliminating typing and page loading times, making web surfing a fun and convenient game.
- Swipe through favorite sites
- Shake for surprise webpage
- No typing required
- Pre-cached pages for fast loading
- Simplified browsing experience
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Web Roulette is simple and fun to play with like all good toys. Just swipe and shake. 1. Swipe through your favorite sites 2. Shake when bored for a surprise webpage! But it's also your new main mobile browser. NO typing your next page NO page loading times (precached!) NO tab management NO baggage from Netscape Navigator's branch of desktop web browsers Take it out for a spin and we hope you enjoy. “Silly and simple and I kind of love it” - THE VERGE “Simple, addictive, and fun” - TECHCRUNCH “It’s just plain dumb fun” - JOHN GRUBER “Makes surfing your top sites a fun game” - APPADVICE “Browsing websites this way is quick and convenient” - MACRUMORS “Restores… the kind of random nature of “flipping through channels” on the internet.” 9TO5MAC
StopTheMadness Pro
This browser extension enhances your web browsing experience by preventing websites from interfering with standard browser functions and protecting your privacy. It offers a wide array of unique features to regain control over your online interactions.
- Prevent UI feature disabling (text selection, copy/paste)
- Stop Google AMP and URL tracking parameters
- Bypass URL shorteners and stop autoplaying media
- Hide unwanted website banners and elements
- Customize tab URL editing and font substitution
- Run custom JavaScript and URL redirects
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StopTheMadness Pro is a web browser extension that stops websites from making your browser harder to use, and it protects your privacy on the web. StopTheMadness Pro is not an ad blocker but rather a one of a kind extension with a huge number of unique features! Made by indie developer Jeff Johnson. The support link has documentation and my email address. StopTheMadness Pro includes extensions for Safari on iOS and iPadOS, Safari, Safari web apps, Chrome, and Firefox on macOS. StopTheMadness Pro is a major update to the beloved StopTheMadness extension, adding automatic iCloud sync of settings between all devices, as well as countless other new features and improvements. StopTheMadness Pro features: • Stop websites from disabling user interface features in your browser such as text selection, copy, cut, and paste, drag and drop, contextual menus, AutoFill, ⌘-key keyboard shortcuts, and 2-finger tap to open links in a new tab • Stop Google AMP • Remove URL query tracking parameters automatically • Stop clickjacking on Google Search, Gmail, Facebook, and DuckDuckGo • Stop hyperlink auditing (anchor "ping") • Stop tracking beacons (Navigator.sendBeacon) • Bypass well-known URL shorteners such as bit.ly, tinyurl, and t.co • Stop autoplaying audio and video • Always show Safari's native video controls, including Picture-in-Picture • Unmute videos automatically on first play • Auto-select video playback speed • Stop Safari from pausing audio in background apps such as Apple Music • Hide "Get the app" banners on Google, Google Maps, DuckDuckGo, IMDb, Quora, Patreon, Reddit, and Tumblr • Hide "Sign in with Google" on all websites • Hide "We'd like to send you some notifications" banners on many websites • Hide elements on web pages with a tap • Edit the tab URL in a large separate window instead of Safari's small address bar • Font substitution on websites • Website-specific CSS and JavaScript • Run custom JavaScript snippets at any time • Custom URL redirects • Stop losing characters in maxlength password fields • Force links to open in the current tab instead of a new tab, or force links to open in a new tab instead of the current tab • Force images to the front so you can drag, use the contextual menu, and save • Stop web animations • Stop websites from overwriting your system clipboard • Show the concealed password in password fields • Stop websites from disabling text replacements in Safari • Stop websites from changing the cursor and hiding the scrollbar • Stop the software keyboard from zooming in the web page • Stop websites from disabling pinch to zoom • Reload the web page on a timer • View and edit web page HTML • And many more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Web Roulette! at Free against StopTheMadness Pro's $14.99. Web Roulette! also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). StopTheMadness Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and chart position (#30 vs unranked). On rating, 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
Web Roulette! is free to download; StopTheMadness Pro costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Web Roulette! against 4.7 for StopTheMadness Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 125 and 198 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Web Roulette!'s written reviews are positive against 83% of StopTheMadness Pro's.
Web Roulette! ships an update every 3 weeks, StopTheMadness Pro every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on August 17, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Web Roulette! | StopTheMadness Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (125 ratings) | 4.7 (198 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 82.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 125 | 198 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #30 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Impending | Jeff Johnson |
Customer experience
Web Roulette!
StopTheMadness Pro
Bugs and requests
Web Roulette!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
StopTheMadness Pro
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inconsistent behavior with 'Disable on Page' option
- Unreliable 'Force Link into New Active Tab' functionality
Requested features
3 requests- Integrated ad-blocking capabilities
- Improved visual filtering options (e.g., dark mode)
- Easier per-site configuration management
In-app purchases
Web Roulette!
No in-app purchases
StopTheMadness Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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