Comparison

DataFastView vs Element Hider

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

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DataFastView

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Your iPhone is measuring itself all day. DataFastView is where you get to see it. Live Wi-Fi quality, battery, CPU, memory, storage and the weather — in the Dynamic Island, on the Home Screen, in Control Center, and on one screen inside the app. Everything is measured on the device. There is no account, no tracking, and nothing to sign up for. WI-FI QUALITY, NOT SIGNAL BARS A full-bar connection with 300 ms of jitter is a bad connection, and the bars will never tell you. DataFastView scores your link from 0 to 100 using four things it measures directly: • Round-trip time to your own router • Round-trip time to the internet • Jitter — how much that time varies • Packet loss Live upload and download rates sit next to the score, and a download-speed test runs only when you tap the button. Tap "How this score is measured" to see exactly how the four are weighted. Nothing is hidden behind a marketing number. ENERGY AND SYSTEM Battery level and charging state, Low Power Mode, and thermal state — Normal, Elevated, High or Critical. CPU on a fixed 0-100% scale, so a phone idling at 3% does not draw the same mountain as one at 100%. Memory split into active, wired, compressed and free. Free storage and time since the last restart. There is no battery temperature, health or cycle count, because iOS publishes no public API for any of them. Any app showing you those is estimating. This one tells you what it actually knows. THE DYNAMIC ISLAND Choose one metric for the left side and one for the right, from CPU, memory in MB or percent, storage in GB or percent, uptime, battery, thermal state, network rates, Wi-Fi quality, or a clock that keeps ticking on its own. Every option shows its live value while you pick, so you are choosing from real numbers rather than names. WIDGETS Actions (medium) — up to ten launch buttons of your own, in two rows of five, each with a symbol or a real app icon and a colour you choose. Load a screenshot of your wallpaper and the widget reads as transparent. Storage and network (small) — a ring of used space, free and used in GB, and the last Wi-Fi reading. Weather (large) — current conditions, temperature, feels-like and the next five days, in the app's own palette. Weather data provided by Apple Weather. There are Control Center controls too, and rotating phrases on the Lock Screen. WEATHER Current conditions, the next hours and the next days, with a two-day temperature trend on the Now tab that marks every peak and trough. Location is used only to ask for the forecast where you are, and only while you are using the app. TOOLS A password generator that runs entirely on the device, using the system's cryptographic random source. Set the length and character classes, exclude look-alike characters (O 0 I l 1) and keyboard runs (abc, 123, qwe), and read the real strength in bits of entropy. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent, and the clipboard copy expires. PRIVACY No account. No analytics. No advertising. No third-party SDKs. The app has no server, so there is nowhere for your data to go. Everything you configure lives on your iPhone and disappears when you delete the app. ONE PAYMENT Buy it once. No subscription, no trial that turns into a bill, no in-app purchases. English and Spanish. iPhone only, iOS 17.6 or later. Weather data provided by Apple Weather. https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/data-source-attribution/

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Element Hider

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Take control of the web. Element Hider lets you hide distracting, annoying, or unnecessary elements from webpages in Safari. See something you don't want to see? Hide it. From oversized banners and annoying pop-ups to distracting sections, recommendations, sidebars, comments, images, and other page elements — Element Hider puts you in control of what stays on your screen. KEY FEATURES • Hide anything Select webpage elements and hide them from view. • Clean up webpages Remove visual clutter and keep the content that actually matters. • One-tap control Quickly enable or disable Element Hider whenever you want. • Global controls Turn your preferred hiding rules on or off across Safari. • Customize your browsing Create a cleaner, more focused experience on the websites you use every day. • Built for Safari Designed specifically for Safari and integrated into your browsing experience. YOUR WEB, YOUR WAY The web doesn't need to look the same for everyone. Element Hider gives you the freedom to decide what you want to see. Hide the stuff that gets in the way and keep the parts of the web that matter to you. Simple. Fast. Yours. Element Hider does not change the content you want to keep — it simply lets you decide what belongs on your screen.

Screenshots

DataFastView4 screens
Element Hider4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DataFastView at Free against Element Hider's $0.99. Element Hider's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

DataFastView is free to download; Element Hider costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
DataFastView versus Element Hider: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDataFastViewElement Hider
PriceFree — better$0.99
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoscoso Pacheco, Gonzalo JuvenalShubham Sharma

In-app purchases

None

DataFastView

No in-app purchases

None

Element Hider

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DataFastView free?
DataFastView is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Element Hider free?
Element Hider costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do DataFastView or Element Hider have ads?
Neither DataFastView nor Element Hider shows ads.

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