Comparison

Remove Tracking vs Clean Links

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

Head to head
About

Remove Tracking

This utility app helps you protect your privacy by removing tracking parameters from URLs before sharing them. You can clean links instantly, save them for later, or process multiple URLs in bulk for simplified and secure link management.

Highlights
  • Strip tracking parameters from URLs
  • Share cleaned URLs instantly
  • Save cleaned URLs for later
  • Organize and send multiple links in bulk
  • Simplified URL management
Features
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Introducing Remove Tracking, the ultimate solution for cleaner and secure URL sharing. Effortlessly strip away tracking parameters from your links to protect your privacy. Share pristine URLs instantly or save them for later use. Organize and send multiple cleaned links in bulk with ease. Enjoy seamless, secure, and simplified URL management with Remove Tracking. Download now and take control of your digital privacy. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Clean Links

This app scans QR codes and URLs to reveal hidden destinations and remove tracking parameters. It protects users from phishing and advertiser tracking, offering a private and free way to control digital privacy.

Highlights
  • QR code scanning
  • URL link cleaning
  • Phishing protection
  • QR code generation
  • iOS integration
  • Cross-device link sharing
Features
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That link a friend just sent you probably has a dozen tracking parameters glued to the end of it. Clean Links strips them off. It also opens up QR codes so you can read where they actually go before you commit to tapping. The app does a handful of things, and does them without an account, a subscription, or an ad: QR reader that shows you the destination URL first. Quishing scams work because nobody can read a QR code with their eyes, so you scan and hope. This one puts the real address on screen and waits. Link cleaner. Paste anything, get back the same link minus the utm tags, click IDs, and referral junk. Works on links from hundreds of shopping sites, social networks and search engines. Send to Mac. Push a cleaned link from your iPhone straight into the browser on your Mac. If the Mac is asleep or offline the link waits for it. Unshorten. Feed it a bit.ly or t.co address and it follows the chain to whatever sits at the end. Useful when a shortened link turns up from someone you don't know, which is how most phishing starts. Tracker blocker covering 71+ services, running as a parameter remover across everything you paste. QR generator for making your own codes out of links you trust. Safari extension that cleans every link on a page in one tap. Shortcuts, a Control Center widget, and a share sheet action, if you want the whole thing automated. Nothing leaves your device. There's no analytics SDK in here, no crash reporter phoning home, no account to create. Privacy isn't a feature we bolted on; there was never any data to collect. ■ Send Links to Your Mac Share a cleaned link from your iPhone or iPad and it lands in your Mac's browser. Links queue up if the Mac is offline. You can also fire Shortcuts on your Macs from an iOS device. You'll need Clean Links on both machines, iCloud turned on, and the same Apple account. ■ Coming from Hyperduck? Clean Links does the same handoff, adds tracker stripping on the way out, handles more than one Mac, and costs nothing. ■ Link Sharing FAQ ‣ Why not AirDrop? AirDrop needs both devices awake and nearby. This doesn't, and it drops the link straight into a background tab. ‣ Why not iCloud Tabs? Because iCloud Tabs only works in Safari, and the tabs are easy to lose. These open in whatever browser you actually use. ‣ Why not Reading List? Reading List is where links go to be forgotten. Yours open immediately. ‣ Why not Handoff? Handoff wants the devices in the same room. Clean Links supports Handoff anyway, for when they are. ‣ More than one Mac? Send to all of them. Any Mac signed into the same Apple account with the app installed will get it. ‣ Want to skip a particular Mac? Turn off receiving in that Mac's settings. ■ Spotted a tracker we don't catch yet? There's a link in Settings to tell us. We'll add them.

Screenshots

Remove Tracking3 screens
Clean Links4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clean Links at none against Remove Tracking's 2. Clean Links also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (68 vs 3). Remove Tracking's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Remove Tracking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year. Clean Links asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Remove Tracking against 4.9 for Clean Links. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clean Links has 68 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Remove Tracking's written reviews are positive against 94% of Clean Links's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remove Tracking ships an update every 3 months, Clean Links every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Remove Tracking versus Clean Links: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemove TrackingClean Links
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.9 (68 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better94.3% of reviews
Number of ratings368 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLaszlo TussNumen Technologies Limited

Customer experience

Remove Tracking

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Clean Links

All ratings68 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive94.3%
Neutral5.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Remove Tracking

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Pro Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro Purchase$9.99
None

Clean Links

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Remove Tracking free?
Remove Tracking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clean Links free?
Clean Links is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Remove Tracking or Clean Links?
Remove Tracking is rated higher. Remove Tracking averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Clean Links averages 4.9 from 68 ratings.
Do Remove Tracking or Clean Links have ads?
Neither Remove Tracking nor Clean Links shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Remove Tracking or Clean Links?
Remove Tracking ships an update every 3 months, and Clean Links every 2 weeks. Most recently, Remove Tracking was updated on September 17, 2026 and Clean Links on September 21, 2026.

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