Comparison

Darkroasters vs Knockoff

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

Head to head
About

Darkroasters

Features
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The easiest way to connect with your local coffee roasters market and favorite speciality coffee brands. Darkroasters app permite conectar micro tostadores locales de café de especialidad con sus comunidades de forma directa.

About

Knockoff

This Safari extension helps you avoid counterfeit and low-quality products on Amazon. It identifies and filters out suspicious brands, allowing you to see only reputable ones. Customize your filtering experience with multiple levels and personal blocklists.

Highlights
  • Hides, dims, or labels flagged listings
  • Filters sponsored listings
  • Three filter levels: Relaxed, Standard, Strict
  • Allowlist and blocklist functionality
  • One-click misclassification reporting
  • Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Features
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Amazon is flooded with trademark-squat "brands": random strings like SZHLUX, HORUSDY, and LATTOOK, registered at the USPTO purely to unlock Amazon Brand Registry. They sell commodity goods with no company, no warranty, and no reputation behind them. Knockoff is a Safari extension that appraises every listing's brand right in your Amazon search results and hides, dims, or labels the junk, so what's left is brands with a reputation to lose. Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Featured in Fast Company, Gizmodo, 404 Media, PC Gamer, Yahoo, and Lifehacker. HOW IT WORKS • Every brand is checked against a curated register of established brands, refreshed daily. • Unknown names are scored on the linguistic signature of pseudo-brands: all-caps squat-length strings, vanishing vowels, unpronounceable consonant runs. • Your allowlist and blocklist override everything. FEATURES • Hide, dim, or label flagged listings, with a one-click reveal. • Optionally hide Amazon's paid "Sponsored" listings too (off by default). • Three filter levels: Relaxed, Standard, Strict. • Trust or block any brand in one click, right from the results. • One-click misclassification reporting that improves the shared lists for everyone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Knockoff works only on Amazon pages. It has no access to your browsing history and never sees the other sites you visit. The brand appraisal runs locally on your device. No accounts, no profiles, nothing tied to you. Two features send data. Both are on by default, and both can be switched off in settings: seller country sends seller IDs, so it can show where a seller is based; and Help pick US alternatives sends the product pages you open, so we know which products people want US alternatives for. A stored row records that a product was viewed N times, never who viewed it. Never sent: your searches, your orders, or anything you type into a page. Reports stay opt-in and anonymous. Full detail: knockoff.co/privacy Free. Works on 23 Amazon marketplaces worldwide, including amazon.com, .ca, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .co.jp, .in, and .com.au. To turn it on: enable Knockoff in Safari's Extensions settings and allow it on Amazon. Search as usual, and the junk brands drop out.

Screenshots

Darkroasters4 screens
Knockoff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Knockoff at weekly against Darkroasters's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Darkroasters ships an update every 2 months, Knockoff weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Darkroasters versus Knockoff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDarkroastersKnockoff
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.9 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDhameliya Infotech private limitedOrdinary Systems, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Darkroasters

No in-app purchases

None

Knockoff

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Darkroasters free?
Darkroasters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Knockoff free?
Knockoff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Darkroasters or Knockoff have ads?
Neither Darkroasters nor Knockoff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Darkroasters or Knockoff?
Darkroasters ships an update every 2 months, and Knockoff weekly. Most recently, Darkroasters was updated on October 5, 2026 and Knockoff on October 7, 2026.

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