Comparison

AdShield One vs XL Widgets

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

Head to head
About

AdShield One

Enhance your browsing experience by blocking ads and trackers in Safari. Offers advanced features like annoyance filtering and dark themes with a one-time purchase. Protect your privacy and enjoy a cleaner web.

Highlights
  • Block ads and trackers
  • Clean tracking parameters from links
  • Whitelist websites
  • Annoyance filtering
  • Cookie banner controls
  • Website dark themes
  • YouTube Shorts controls
Features
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AdShield makes Safari cleaner and more private. No account, no tracking and no subscription. ■ FREE FOREVER • Block third-party ads and trackers • Clean common tracking parameters from links • Whitelist websites you want to support • Pause or resume protection for individual websites from Safari ■ UNLOCK PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Annoyance filtering and Cookie banner controls • 12 website dark themes with per-site controls • YouTube Shorts controls • Advanced link-cleaning parameters • Select and hide page elements, with locally saved rules 200,000+ rules across three filter packs protect Safari. Ads and privacy protection stay free; the annoyance pack is part of Pro. Rules update with every release. Everything runs on your device. One purchase works on iPhone and iPad. Filter lists: EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Fanboy, EasyList China, KoreanList and AdGuard Japanese (each under its upstream license).

About

XL Widgets

Features
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XL Widgets is built for the brand-new extra-large widget in iOS 27, the 4x6 tile that fills most of your Home Screen. Turn one page into a photo frame, a countdown, a calendar, or a giant clock. Every widget comes in four sizes, small, medium, large, and extra-large, so you can mix a tiny CarPlay-ready dial with a full-page XL centerpiece. The five widgets: Photo Pick one or more photo sets from your library. The widget rotates through them on your Home Screen. At extra-large size it becomes a full-page picture frame. Countdown Track the days to a trip, a birthday, a deadline, or any date that matters. The XL size turns a countdown into a bold, glance-and-go number. Calendar See your upcoming events at a glance, from a quick agenda strip at small size to a full week view at extra-large. Daily Note A single line for today, written on-device by Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones. On other iPhones you get a curated quote instead. Either way, it is a fresh line worth a glance every morning. Clock and Date A big, typographic clock and date. At extra-large size it becomes a striking Home Screen centerpiece; at small size it doubles as a clean CarPlay dashboard widget. How it works Long-press your Home Screen, tap the plus button, choose XL Widgets, and pick a widget and size. Small widgets also show up on your CarPlay dashboard automatically. Privacy XL Widgets has no accounts, no sign-in, and no servers. Your photos, events, and notes are read and processed entirely on your iPhone and never leave the device. There is no analytics and no tracking of any kind. FREE TO TRY XL Widgets is free: Clock & Date, Daily Note, one countdown and one photo set. XL Widgets Pro adds the Calendar widget, unlimited countdowns and unlimited photo sets. Choose a yearly subscription, which renews automatically until you cancel it in Settings, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. If you bought Pro before, it stays yours. No ads, ever. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://telepaxa.com/xlwidgets/privacy

Screenshots

AdShield One4 screens
XL Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: XL Widgets at daily against AdShield One's weekly. AdShield One's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. AdShield One sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and XL Widgets sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AdShield One ships an update weekly, XL Widgets daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AdShield One versus XL Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAdShield OneXL Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer健 胡League of Strategic Enterprises and Revenue, LLC.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

AdShield One

One-time1
  • AdShield Pro$2.99
3 purchases

XL Widgets

Subscriptions1
  • XL Widgets Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • XL Widgets Pro$2.99
  • XL Widgets Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is AdShield One free?
AdShield One is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is XL Widgets free?
XL Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AdShield One or XL Widgets have ads?
Neither AdShield One nor XL Widgets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AdShield One or XL Widgets?
AdShield One ships an update weekly, and XL Widgets daily. Most recently, AdShield One was updated on October 31, 2026 and XL Widgets on October 31, 2026.

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