wBlock vs Disk Reserve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Disk Reserve
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Disk Reserve is a personal storage buffer for your iPhone and Mac—not a cleaner, optimizer, or junk file scanner. Reserve capacity before storage gets tight. When you need the space back, release it in one tap. HOW IT WORKS • Reserve — Set aside real disk space as your personal buffer • Release — Return reserved space to your device anytime • Visual dashboard — See Available, Reserved, and Used at a glance FREE FOREVER • Reserve up to 1 GB at no cost • Release is always free — no paywall on release PREMIUM (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) • Unlimited reserve capacity • No subscription · No ads • Restore Purchase supported on all your devices Built for people who want a simple buffer before big downloads, shoots, or cache spikes—not another “clean my phone” app. Requires iOS and macOS with available local storage. Reserved space uses real disk allocation on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: wBlock at none against Disk Reserve's 1. wBlock also leads on iOS requirement (15.4 vs 17.0). Disk Reserve's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. Disk Reserve sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. wBlock asks for nothing beyond the download.
wBlock ships an update every 2 weeks, Disk Reserve daily. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | wBlock | Disk Reserve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (175 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 175 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Skula | 芮 赵 |
Bugs and requests
wBlock
Reported bugs
1 issue- Sluggish Safari performance after installation on macOS
Requested features
1 request- Support for Chinese language interface
Disk Reserve
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
wBlock
No in-app purchases
Disk Reserve
- Lifetime Access$0.99









