Comparison

Wrixle 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

Wrixle

This utility app simplifies managing HomeKit automations. It allows users to enable or disable multiple automations simultaneously using a prefix, ideal for switching between different routines like vacation modes or guest settings. It also offers a Shortcut Action for scripting automation management.

Highlights
  • Bulk enable/disable automations
  • Prefix-based automation selection
  • Supports vacation and guest modes
  • HomeKit integration
  • Shortcut Action for scripting
Features
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Do you find yourself enabling and disabling the same automations when you go away and come back, or when guests arrive and depart? Wrixle is a simple utility app that integrates with Apple's Home app to let you bulk-manage your HomeKit automations. After selecting your home, enter a prefix for the automation names, and you're ready to enable or disable multiple automations at once. Perfect for switching between daily routines and vacation modes, or managing guest-related automations. You can also use Wrixle's Shortcut Action to write scripts that enable or disable HomeKit automations by prefix.

About

Clean Links

This utility app removes tracking parameters from URLs, reveals the true destination of QR codes before opening, and allows you to send cleaned links between your devices. It prioritizes user privacy with no accounts, subscriptions, or ads.

Highlights
  • Strips tracking parameters from URLs
  • Reveals QR code destinations before opening
  • Sends cleaned links between Apple devices
  • Unshortens shortened URLs
  • Generates QR codes
  • Safari extension for one-tap cleaning
  • Shortcuts and widget integration
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 Device. Push a cleaned link from your iPhone into your Mac's browser, or over to another iPhone or iPad. If the device 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 Between Your Devices Share a cleaned link from any iPhone, iPad or Mac and it opens where you send it: in your Mac's browser, or from a notification on iPhone and iPad. Links queue up if the device is offline. You can run Shortcuts on your other devices this way too. You'll need Clean Links on each device, 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 device? Send to several at once. Any iPhone, iPad or Mac signed into the same Apple account with the app installed can receive. ‣ Want to leave a device out? Turn off receiving in that device's settings. ■ Spotted a tracker we don't catch yet? There's a link in Settings to tell us. We'll add them.

Screenshots

Wrixle2 screens
Clean Links4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Clean Links at 85 against Wrixle's 1. Wrixle's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Wrixle against 4.9 for Clean Links. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clean Links has 85 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Wrixle's written reviews are positive against 93% of Clean Links's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wrixle ships an update every 3 days, Clean Links every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Wrixle versus Clean Links: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrixleClean Links
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (85 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better92.5% of reviews
Number of ratings185 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB90 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperMichael BlakeleyNumen Technologies Limited

Customer experience

Wrixle

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Clean Links

All ratings85 ratings
Positive98.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive92.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative2.5%

In-app purchases

None

Wrixle

No in-app purchases

None

Clean Links

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wrixle free?
Wrixle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clean Links free?
Clean Links is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wrixle or Clean Links?
Wrixle is rated higher. Wrixle averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Clean Links averages 4.9 from 85 ratings.
Do Wrixle or Clean Links have ads?
Neither Wrixle nor Clean Links shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wrixle or Clean Links?
Wrixle ships an update every 3 days, and Clean Links every 2 weeks. Most recently, Wrixle was updated on October 25, 2026 and Clean Links on October 30, 2026.

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