AdZero vs Backtick

Focus on the page, not the ads. AdZero is a Safari ad blocker for iPhone and iPad. Reduce banners, unexpected popups, web trackers and other distractions. Preventing blocked ad resources from loading can also help reduce unnecessary data use. ONE PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Use AdZero without creating an account or paying a recurring subscription. CHOOSE WHAT TO BLOCK • Safari ads and advertising popups • Web trackers and analytics scripts • Regional filters for Korean websites • Cookie banners, subscription prompts and other annoyances • Per-site exceptions and custom blocking rules • A Safari helper and an element picker to hide unwanted page elements • Filter updates, protection diagnostics and site issue reports OPTIONAL ENCRYPTED DNS Choose public DNS presets from providers such as Cloudflare and Quad9. Depending on the provider and preset, these can block known malicious domains. This is an optional iOS system DNS setting—not a VPN or AdZero-operated system-wide ad blocker. YOUR BROWSING HISTORY STAYS OFF ADZERO SERVERS AdZero contains no advertising or analytics SDK. It does not send visited website addresses, search terms or browsing history to AdZero servers. Settings and blocking statistics stay on your device. Filter updates download from a GitHub CDN. If you enable encrypted DNS, DNS queries go to your selected provider and its privacy policy applies. BEFORE YOU START • Enable the AdZero content blockers and Safari helper in iOS Settings, then grant the necessary website permissions. The app walks you through setup. • Safari protection does not remove every advertisement inside other apps. • Blocking results vary by website and advertising method. If a website does not work as expected, add it to your exceptions. • DNS protection is optional and does not guarantee that every threat will be blocked. Need help? Use the in-app issue report or visit our support page.

Backtick turns your home and lock screen into a terminal. Not a picture of one — a working one. Panels drawn with hairline rules, a tab bar you actually tap, a cursor that genuinely blinks, and your real life inside it: calendar, reminders, weather, steps, battery — and now your GitHub, your focus sessions and anything your automations want to say. FULL-PAGE WIDGETS (iOS 27) The Terminal fills an entire home screen page — now, next up, tasks, weather and system as one live session. The Console goes full page too, with bit idling above the menu. THE WIDGETS — 35 OF THEM • Terminal — five panels switched by tapping tabs on the widget; small, medium, large and full page • Console — a navigable menu: arrows move, enter selects, esc backs out, without opening an app • git log — your GitHub contribution graph, streak and recent activity • focus — one tap starts a timer, with a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island • curl — any number from a JSON endpoint you choose, with a sparkline of recent values • echo — shows whatever you send it from Shortcuts; build automations that write to your home and lock screen • Weather — current, hourly and forecast; the small one pages when you tap it • Clock — a live 7-segment face with ticking seconds, zero battery cost, 12h or 24h • Countdown — days to a date you pick; ticks live on the final day, counts up after • Daylight — sunrise to sunset as a gauge, golden hour, light left • Year Progress — every day of the year as a dot; watch it fill • Elapsed — day, week, month and year as block gauges • Month — the full month with event markers • Timeline — upcoming events with durations drawn to scale • Steps — today's count and distance, with the week as bars • Disk — storage as a block gauge • Moon — tonight's phase as a dot matrix • motd — a daily line from bit, free • bit — a resident terminal creature. It has moods, it types little lines, its heartbeat blinks, and it reacts when you poke it. Bond over time. LOCK SCREEN Nine rectangular widgets (next up, tasks, weather, forecast, hourly, elapsed, battery, daylight, echo), six circular gauges, and inline status lines. STANDBY Charge your phone on its side and the Terminal, Weather, Clock and bit widgets switch to big, glanceable layouts you can read from across the room. THEMES Six full terminal palettes — Dracula, Gruvbox, Nord, Solarized, Catppuccin and Tokyo Night — or classic true black with one of five accent phosphors. Every widget follows instantly. SHORTCUTS, SIRI & CONTROL CENTER • "Set Backtick Message" puts any text on the echo widgets — when you arrive at work, when your battery runs low, whenever • Start or stop a focus session from Siri, Shortcuts or Control Center • Tick your top task, poke bit, or jump to your agenda from Control Center or the Action button BUILT LIKE A TOOL • Tick reminders off from the widget — writes straight to Apple Reminders • Tap a section to open YOUR apps: choose which calendar, reminders and weather apps widget taps launch • Battery, weather and steps refresh in the background through the day • Live clocks, countdowns and a blinking cursor with zero widget refreshes • True black. Made for OLED and dark home screens. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION • No account, no sign-in, no Backtick server — there isn't one • Calendar, reminders, steps and device stats are read on-device via Apple's frameworks • Weather comes from Apple Weather using your approximate location • git log and curl talk only to the addresses you give them; an optional GitHub token stays in your phone's keychain • Nothing is collected. There is nowhere to collect it to. FREE / PRO The Terminal widget, Next Up, the inline status line, motd and the classic amber theme are free forever. One purchase unlocks everything else — every widget, every palette — no subscription, no upsell treadmill. — Privacy policy: https://backtick.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://backtick.app/terms.html