uBlock Origin Lite vs Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
uBlock Origin Lite
This efficient content blocker utilizes browser-based filtering for reliable ad and tracker removal. It offers a declarative approach, minimizing resource consumption by only activating its service worker when interacting with its interface.
- Efficient content blocking
- Declarative filtering
- Minimal resource consumption
- Browser-based filtering
- Supports multiple filter lists
- Open-source and transparent
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uBO Lite (uBOL) is a reliable and efficient content blocker. The default ruleset corresponds to uBlock Origin's default filterset: - uBlock Origin's built-in filter lists - EasyList - EasyPrivacy - Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list You can enable more rulesets by visiting the options page -- click the _Cogs_ icon in the popup panel. uBOL is entirely declarative, meaning there is no need for a permanent uBOL process for the filtering to occur, and CSS/JS injection-based content filtering is performed reliably by the browser itself rather than by the extension. This means that uBOL itself does not consume CPU/memory resources while content blocking is ongoing -- uBOL's service worker process is required _only_ when you interact with the popup panel or the option pages.
Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos
This keyboard app allows users to easily type polytonic Greek with all necessary diacritics and accents. It offers multiple typing methods, a spacebar trackpad for cursor control, and access to archaic letters. An optional upgrade provides advanced assists like auto-correct and typeahead.
- Full range of classical and historical diacritics
- Two distinct typing methods
- Spacebar trackpad for cursor navigation
- Access to archaic Greek letters
- NFC Unicode output
- Optional Pro assists: auto-correct, typeahead, style preferences
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No more copying and pasting complicated diacritics from a website! Tonos is a polytonic Greek keyboard for iPhone and iPad. Tonos is now part of the Open Greek organization. All proceeds support the Open Greek Corpus project, which is bringing state-of-the-art optical character recognition (OCR) to more public-domain Ancient Greek texts. Designed for students, scholars, and anyone writing polytonic Greek, Tonos supports the full range of classical and historical diacritics across Classical, Koine, Byzantine, Katharevousa, and polytonic Modern Greek. All ten classical marks. Smooth and rough breathings, acute, grave, and circumflex accents, iota subscript, diaeresis, macron, breve, and the philologist's underdot. Combine them freely. Mutually exclusive marks, like acute and grave, or macron and breve, never fight each other. Two ways to type. Enter a vowel first and decorate it with one tap, or queue up the diacritics you want and apply them all to the next vowel. Whichever mental model you prefer, Tonos follows along. Spacebar trackpad. Drag across the spacebar to slide the cursor through your text, one character at a time. Fast drags accelerate, so you can cover distance without leaving Tonos to adjust the cursor. Three layers, one keyboard. • Letters uses the common Greek keyboard layout. • Numbers holds digits and punctuation, including ano teleia. • Archaic holds rare letters from languages that use the Greek alphabet: digamma, stigma, archaic koppa, koppa, sampi, san, heta, yot, sho, the kai ligature, and the Pamphylian digamma. Plus cursive and lunate letterforms for manuscripts and papyrology. NFC Unicode output. Canonically precomposed where Unicode provides a precomposed form. Letters with stacked breathings, accents, and iota subscript drop cleanly into any app, document, or database. No legacy codepoints, no lookup tables, no surprises for your downstream tools. Nomina Sacra. Insert eight two-letter manuscript contractions with a continuous overbar, including ΘϹ (God), ΙϹ (Jesus), and ΧϹ (Christ). One backspace removes a whole contraction. Uncial mode preserves the overbar. Available with Tonos Pro. Tonos Pro. An optional one-time upgrade unlocks the nomina sacra key and three on-device polytonic assists. Auto-correct silently fixes missing or wrong diacritics when you hit space, return, or a punctuation key, drawing on a 1.3-million-entry polytonic dictionary merged from Classical, Koine, Byzantine, and Katharevousa corpora. Typeahead adds a suggestion bar with spell-check corrections for misspelled words, mid-word completions, and next-word predictions, powered by a language model trained on ~30 million polytonic tokens. Style Preferences lets you tune the editorial rules: enclitic-aware grave rule, iota subscript vs adscript, movable nu, elision, plus a three-way picker for the elision glyph (Combined, Koronis, or Apostrophe). No network access. The keyboard is complete on its own, and your Pro unlock is a single non-consumable purchase that restores on any device signed in to your Apple Account. A quick setup note. Enable Tonos under Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard, then tap the globe key on any keyboard to switch to it. Any apps that were already open before you enabled Tonos may need to be closed and reopened before the keyboard becomes available in them. This is an iOS behavior, not specific to Tonos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: uBlock Origin Lite at none against Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos's 1. uBlock Origin Lite also leads on ratings volume (982 vs 5). Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. uBlock Origin Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for uBlock Origin Lite against 4.8 for Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: uBlock Origin Lite has 982 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of uBlock Origin Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos's.
uBlock Origin Lite ships an update weekly, Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | uBlock Origin Lite | Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (982 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 982 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raymond Hill | Motomatic LLC |
Customer experience
uBlock Origin Lite
Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos
Bugs and requests
uBlock Origin Lite
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unable to turn on extension on laptop Safari after installation
- Fails to load when enabling in Safari
Requested features
2 requests- Import third-party filter lists
- Improved dashboard and settings access
Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
uBlock Origin Lite
No in-app purchases
Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos
- Tonos Pro$19.99
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