Comparison

wBlock vs Crest Browser

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

Head to head
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.

About

Crest Browser

Organize your online life with distinct browsing contexts for work, personal use, and private browsing. Each context has its own tabs, history, and data, ensuring a clean separation of your digital activities.

Highlights
  • Isolated browsing contexts (Spaces)
  • Separate tabs, history, and cookies per Space
  • Customizable Space identity
  • Focused sidebar for tabs and history
  • Peek for temporary link previews
  • Optional iCloud sync
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Work, personal life, and everything between deserve their own Space. Crest is a native browser for iPhone and iPad that keeps your accounts separate, your tabs organized, and your browsing distinctly yours. KEEP YOUR ACCOUNTS SEPARATE Each Space has its own tabs, cookies, website data, history, passwords, and site permissions. Stay signed in to different accounts on the same website. Switch from work to personal browsing without carrying the wrong session with you. GIVE EVERY TAB A PLACE Pin the sites you use every day. Save pages in folders. Keep today's tabs close and completed work in the archive. Select and move tabs, folders, and Split View groups together. On iPhone, bring in the sidebar with a gesture; on iPad, keep it beside your page. MAKE IT YOUR OWN Start with a Winter, Lion, or other crest template in Crest Studio, then change the colors, artwork, and background. Choose a crest, emoji, monogram, or symbol. Look and Feel lets you adjust the sidebar's edge, tab appearance, borders, icon colors, and default page zoom, with a live preview. KEEP RELATED PAGES TOGETHER Group two to four pages in Split View. On iPad, browse them side by side and resize the columns. On iPhone, swipe across the compact toolbar to move between pages in the group. Peek lets you check supported links without losing your place, then keep the page as a tab when you need it. TOOLS FOR EVERYDAY BROWSING Translate webpages on device with Apple's Translation framework. Read supported articles in Reader, find text on a page, adjust zoom, share links, and export pages. Content blocking and site permissions give you control over each Space. Language availability varies, and translation may require a language download. PRIVATE WHEN YOU NEED IT Private Browsing uses temporary website storage. Private tabs stay out of saved history, restoration, archive, and sync. Crest does not run an advertising SDK, collect browsing analytics, or require a Crest account. PICK UP ON ANOTHER DEVICE Optional iCloud sync keeps supported Space and tab organization available across your Apple devices through your private iCloud database. Crest is also available for Mac. Crest is free and open source, built with Apple's WebKit. Requires iOS 26.1 or iPadOS 26.1 or later. Some website features and integrations vary by device.

Screenshots

wBlock3 screens
Crest Browser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: wBlock at 85% against Crest Browser's 0%. wBlock also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (175 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

wBlock holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: wBlock has 175 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of wBlock's written reviews are positive against 0% of Crest Browser's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
wBlock versus Crest Browser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterwBlockCrest Browser
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (175 ratings) — better4.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews84.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings175 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.4 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB57 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAlexander SkulaPaul Davis

Customer experience

wBlock

All ratings175 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.1%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive84.8%
Neutral2.5%
Negative12.7%

Crest Browser

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

wBlock

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Sluggish Safari performance after installation on macOS

Requested features

1 request
  • Support for Chinese language interface

Crest Browser

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

wBlock

No in-app purchases

None

Crest Browser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is wBlock free?
wBlock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crest Browser free?
Crest Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, wBlock or Crest Browser?
wBlock is rated higher. wBlock averages 4.8 out of 5 from 175 ratings, while Crest Browser averages 4.3 from 3 ratings.
Do wBlock or Crest Browser have ads?
Neither wBlock nor Crest Browser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, wBlock or Crest Browser?
wBlock ships an update every 2 weeks, and Crest Browser every 2 weeks. Most recently, wBlock was updated on October 13, 2026 and Crest Browser on October 12, 2026.

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