Comparison

Crintech Toolkit vs wBlock

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

Head to head
About

Crintech Toolkit

Features
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Crintech Toolkit bundles the utilities a developer (or any tinkerer) reaches for every day into a single app — no accounts, no ads, and nothing sent anywhere. TEXT & DATA • JSON formatter — format, minify, validate • Regex tester — match highlighting and example patterns • Text counter — words, characters, lines, paragraphs, reading time • Text diff — compare two texts line by line • Markdown preview — live rendering ENCODERS • Base64 — encode/decode, URL-safe variant • URL encoder — percent-encoding, query mode • Hashes — MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 • HTML entities — encode/decode • JWT decoder — inspect header and payload (local decode) GENERATORS • Lorem Ipsum — paragraphs, sentences, or words • UUID generator — v4, in batches, uppercase or dashless • Password generator — configurable, with entropy in bits • QR generator — turn text, URLs, or vCards into a QR code CONVERTERS • Color converter — HEX ⇄ RGB ⇄ HSL with sliders • Timestamp — Unix epoch ⇄ ISO 8601 • Number base — binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal • Case converter — camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case, PascalCase, CONSTANT_CASE, and more NETWORK • HTTP client — fire GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE requests at any REST API with custom headers and body, and inspect the response: status code, timing, and pretty-printed JSON. Ships with ready-to-run examples. SNIPPETS Save chunks of text, code, or tool output into a local library with tags and search. Everything stays on your iPhone — no cloud, no sync. PRIVACY • Works offline — the only network traffic is requests you fire yourself in the HTTP client • No accounts, no sign-up • No tracking, no telemetry, no ads • No in-app purchases Three languages (Spanish, English, Basque), light/dark mode, custom accent colors, and a "tip of the day" widget.

About

wBlock

Enhance Safari browsing with an ad blocker that supports userscripts for custom features, offers lightning-fast performance with low RAM usage, and provides complete control over blocking. It ensures privacy with a design that runs within Safari's API and is completely free and open-source.

Highlights
  • Userscript support for custom features
  • Lightning-fast performance with low RAM usage
  • Complete control over blocking
  • Privacy-first design
  • Comprehensive ad and tracker blocking
  • Free and open-source
Features
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wBlock is a free, open-source ad blocker for Safari. It blocks ads and trackers all over the web with more than 750,000 filter rules, and it never asks you to subscribe. Blocks ads in Safari wBlock leans on Safari's own content blocking, so pages come up clean and fast. Lists like AdGuard Base and EasyList refresh in the background, and you pick which ones run. Handles the sites filters can't Built-in userscripts get past anti-adblock walls and pop-ups. You can drop in your own userscripts and userstyles as well, and Return YouTube Dislike is one tap away. Zap anything you don't want to see The element zapper lets you tap a cookie banner or overlay and hide it, and wBlock remembers it next time you visit. Light on memory wBlock sits at about 40 MB of RAM when idle, so Safari stays quick. Your call on every site Turn blocking off for a site with one tap, or pause wBlock for a while when you need to. Settings sync over iCloud and can be saved to a file. Private by design wBlock collects no data and needs no account. The code lives on GitHub, so anyone can look at what it does. Free for good No subscriptions and no in-app purchases.

Screenshots

Crintech Toolkit4 screens
wBlock3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: wBlock at 4 against Crintech Toolkit's 2. wBlock also leads on iOS requirement (15.4 vs 18.4). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Crintech Toolkit versus wBlock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrintech ToolkitwBlock
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (175 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—84.8% of reviews
Number of ratings—175 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.415.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCRISTOBAL RUIZ LORITEAlexander Skula

Bugs and requests

Crintech Toolkit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

wBlock

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Sluggish Safari performance after installation on macOS

Requested features

1 request
  • Support for Chinese language interface

In-app purchases

None

Crintech Toolkit

No in-app purchases

None

wBlock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crintech Toolkit free?
Crintech Toolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is wBlock free?
wBlock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Crintech Toolkit or wBlock have ads?
Neither Crintech Toolkit nor wBlock shows ads.

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