Comparison

hado99 vs NoirShield

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

Head to head
About

hado99

Features
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Encrypted DNS for your iPhone, with protection against phishing, malware and tracking — and plain-language explanations of what was blocked. HOW IT WORKS hado99 sets the encrypted DNS resolver your device uses, through the standard iOS DNS settings. There is no VPN profile and no root certificate. Your DNS queries travel encrypted over DNS-over-HTTPS, so your carrier or the owner of the Wi-Fi network cannot read which sites you visit. The hado99 resolver checks each domain against public, auditable lists of known phishing, malware and tracking domains, and answers normally for everything else. PROTECTION • Encrypted DNS (DNS-over-HTTPS) on every network, Wi-Fi or cellular • Around 137,000 known phishing, malware and tracking domains do not resolve • Real-time counter and a list of what was recently blocked • Tap any blocked domain to understand, in plain language, what it was • Allowed something by mistake? One tap undoes it FOR FAMILIES Optional category filters — gambling and adult content — turned on only if you want them, and protected by a PIN. The PIN is required to WEAKEN protection, never to turn it on. PRIVACY • No browsing history is stored, on your device or on our servers • No account, no login, no advertising identifier • Counters and the recent-blocks list live in memory only and are gone on restart • No ads, no analytics and no third-party trackers inside the app TRANSPARENCY • Public, auditable domain lists (StevenBlack/hosts and others) • The resolver is operated by us, and it does not log queries • Privacy policy: https://hado99.com/privacidade Website: https://hado99.com Support: support@hado99.com

About

NoirShield

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NoirShield is a network tool that runs entirely on your device. It encrypts your DNS lookups and can match them against blocklists stored on the device. Your traffic is never routed through a server of ours: there is nothing to relay it through, and your IP address does not change. ENCRYPTED DNS Resolve names over DNS-over-HTTPS or DNS-over-TLS. Choose from built-in encrypted resolvers or enter your own custom endpoint. Measure them on the network you are on and switch to the fastest. ON-DEVICE FILTERING Optional lists for ads and trackers, malware, phishing and crypto mining — 470,943 domains, matched on the device. Every list is off until you turn it on. You can import your own list and add your own allow and block rules, which take priority. DIAGNOSTICS Fourteen checks: reachability, IPv4 and IPv6, captive portals, latency, DNS resolution, DNS interception, DoH, DoT, HTTPS, TLS, QUIC, WebSocket and UDP. AUTOFIX Measures the network, applies a compatibility profile, verifies the result and remembers what worked for that network. NO ACCOUNT No sign-up, no sign-in, no subscription. Nothing about your lookups is uploaded. The activity log stays in memory and is gone when the app closes, unless you switch on "Keep activity after restart" in Settings. The app reaches our server for two things only: signed blocklist updates, and the connection tests while you are running diagnostics. NoirShield is not a country-switching VPN. It has no relay or proxy server, does not change your IP address and never decrypts HTTPS. On iPhone and iPad, iOS shows its own VPN badge whenever an on-device tunnel is running; NoirShield uses that tunnel only to hand DNS queries to the resolver on your device.

Screenshots

hado991 screens
NoirShield4 screens

Verdict

The call

hado99 and NoirShield are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
hado99 versus NoirShield: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterhado99NoirShield
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB29 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperWood Valley7Stockapp OU

In-app purchases

None

hado99

No in-app purchases

None

NoirShield

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is hado99 free?
hado99 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NoirShield free?
NoirShield is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do hado99 or NoirShield have ads?
Neither hado99 nor NoirShield shows ads.

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