uShield vs Trove
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
uShield
This app acts as a personal web shield, blocking ads and trackers to save data, extend battery life, and protect online privacy. It offers customizable filters and seamless iCloud sync across Apple devices for a cleaner, safer browsing experience.
- Block ads and trackers
- Worldwide ad blocking with automatic updates
- Customizable filters and rules
- Seamless iCloud sync
- Privacy-focused local processing
- Easy setup and smart utilities
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WHY CHOOSE USHIELD? uShield goes beyond basic ad blocking. It acts as your personal web shield, saving your data plan, extending battery life, and ensuring your online privacy remains completely intact. KEY FEATURES: - Block Ads & Trackers Say goodbye to banners, video ads, pop-ups, and invisible trackers. uShield seamlessly blocks distractions so you can focus on the content that matters. - Worldwide Ad Blocking Browse local and international websites without interruptions. uShield comes with frequent, automatic filter updates to ensure you're always protected against the newest tracking scripts and ad networks. - Customizable Filters & Rules Tailor your browsing experience! Whitelist your favorite websites, hide specific web elements, and manage blocked domains easily. - Seamless iCloud Sync Got multiple Apple devices? uShield automatically synchronizes your custom filters, whitelists, and settings across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud. Set it up once and enjoy a clean web everywhere. - Privacy First, Always We believe your data is yours. uShield processes all filtering locally on your device. We do not track your browsing history, nor do we collect or sell your personal information. - Easy Setup & Smart Utilities Get started in seconds with a simple, user-friendly interface. Enjoy extra smart utilities and receive helpful, responsive support whenever you need it. Experience the web as it was meant to be. Download uShield today and start browsing faster, cleaner, and safer! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Trove
Organize, back up, and share all your files and media in one place. Play audiobooks, edit videos, scan documents to searchable PDFs, and transcribe voice memos. Secure your data with on-device encryption and optional passcodes.
- File and media management
- Audio and video playback with advanced controls
- Document scanning to searchable PDF
- Voice memo transcription
- Secure backup and restore
- On-device encryption
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Trove is one app for the files you use: PDFs, books, photos, videos, music, recordings, scans. Press play on an audiobook and Trove remembers where you stopped. Have a PDF or a book read to you in a natural voice, and watch each word light up as it's spoken. Scan a document and it comes out as a PDF you can search. Back the whole library up, encrypted. No account, no subscription, no ads, no tracking. A REAL AUDIO PLAYER • Remembers your spot in every file, even if you move or rename it • Plays MP3, M4A, M4B, WAV, FLAC, AIFF and more • Audiobook chapters and background playback, with Lock Screen controls • Skip ±15/±30s, speed 0.75× to 2×, sleep timer, playlists • Bookmarks in long audiobooks and podcasts, with names and notes READ ALONG, IN A NATURAL VOICE • Read Aloud lights up each word as it's spoken, in PDFs, EPUB books, text files, and saved web pages. Tap a word to start there • Find: tap a chapter and a verse from a grid, type John 3:16, or search for a phrase and start reading from it • Skip by chapter, verse, or sentence, on screen or from the Lock Screen and your headphones. Any speed, from half to two and a half times • Leave out verse numbers, footnotes, page headers, contents, or pictures and tables • Links in books and PDFs work. A footnote opens where you are • Highlights and notes in books, bookmarks with names and notes, a sleep timer, and your place kept in every document • Your text size and font. Light or dark, with your iPhone or as you set it • Save any document as an audiobook with named chapters, or Listen on the Go: the rest of the chapter as audio, for a walk • Fourteen natural American and British voices. A one-time download that runs on your device • The natural voices know some 2,800 Bible names and say them the way you've always heard them, checked against Strong's Concordance. A word that still comes out wrong, you can teach Trove • Apple's voices work too, including your Personal Voice SCAN & WORK WITH DOCUMENTS • Scan documents to a searchable PDF • Highlight, underline, sign, and mark up PDFs. Links in a PDF take you to their page • Rich-text notes, or plain text, Markdown, and CSV • Turn photos, Word files, text, and web pages into PDFs. Merge PDFs • Summarize a document or ask it a question with Apple Intelligence YOUR FILES, ORGANIZED • List or grid with thumbnails. Search looks inside subfolders • Rename, move, copy, share, compress • Custom folder colors and icons, Favorites, Recents • Tags, each one a smart folder • Clear duplicate files • Recently Deleted, 30 days to change your mind CAPTURE & BRING FILES IN • Record voice memos • Transcribe a recording to a searchable note, on your device • Import from Files, iCloud Drive, and Photos • Link a folder from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive • A private browser. Save a page to read offline • AirDrop in, or "Save to Trove" from any app's share sheet • Home Screen widget and Siri Shortcuts PRIVATE & SECURE • Lock files in a vault behind Face ID • Optional passcode to open the app • Encrypted, password-protected backup to iCloud Drive or Files. Places, bookmarks, and notes come back too • Everything stays on your device FREE & TROVE PRO Trove is free to browse, organize, bring files in from anywhere, make PDFs, share, print, and play your audio and video. Trove Pro unlocks the rest with a single purchase. No subscription: • Pick up audio right where you left off, plus playlists and bookmarks with notes • Read Aloud in natural voices that know the Bible's names (checked against Strong's), with the follow-along highlight, Find, any speed, bookmarks, and Save as Audiobook • Cloud folders • Summarize & Ask • Voice recorder, with on-device transcription • Custom folder colors and icons • Notes, document scanning, OCR, and merging PDFs • Highlights in PDFs and books • Face ID vault and encrypted backup Buy once and it's yours, on iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Trove at free against uShield's freemium. Trove also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). uShield's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. uShield sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Trove sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for uShield against 5.0 for Trove. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
uShield ships an update weekly, Trove every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | uShield | Trove |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | The Le Ngoc | Robert Egan |
Customer experience
uShield
Trove
In-app purchases
uShield
- Monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly1 Month trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime$17.99
Trove
- Trove Pro$14.99









