SafaShield vs Acidity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SafaShield
Enhance your Safari browsing experience by blocking malicious domains, ads, and trackers. This utility offers customizable rules to protect your privacy and reduce online threats.
- Block malicious domains
- Block ads and web trackers
- Block abused TLDs
- Whitelist custom domains
- Allow ads on trusted sites
- Block custom TLDs
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SafaShield is a Safari content blocker app developed by NoVirusThanks Company Srl that was created to improve Safari web browsing security by blocking potentially suspicious and malicious domains. We provide built-in options to block most abused TLDs (such as domains that end in .top or .xyz), dynamic DNS domains, free hosting domains, internationalized domains, unsecure connections, and more. We added also options to protect the user's privacy by blocking ads and web trackers. Other useful features you can find aboard are the possibility to whitelist a domain so it will never be blocked, allow ads on websites you trust and that you visit frequently to support their work, block custom domain names and also custom domain TLDs (such as .it or .info). The main focus of this app is to reduce the attack surface by improving the Safari web browsing security with smart content blocking rules.
Acidity
This utility extension for Safari provides quick access to archived versions of web pages. It allows users to manually navigate to archives or set up automatic redirection based on custom regex patterns.
- Access archived page versions
- Toolbar action for quick access
- Regex matching for automatic navigation
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Acidity is a Safari extension for navigating to archived versions of pages. Quickly access page archives through a button in the toolbar. Specify regex matches to automatically redirect certain sites to archives.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SafaShield at 4.6 against Acidity's 4.2. SafaShield also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SafaShield holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 10 respectively.
SafaShield ships an update every 3 weeks, Acidity every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SafaShield | Acidity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | 4.2 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NOVIRUSTHANKS COMPANY SRL | Octalwise |
Customer experience
SafaShield
Acidity
In-app purchases
SafaShield
No in-app purchases
Acidity
No in-app purchases
