Comparison

Website Blocker vs Talking Archiver

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

Head to head
About

Website Blocker

This web browser scans websites for user-defined keywords and blocks access if found. It's designed to create a safer online environment, especially for children, with customizable blocklists and PIN protection for settings.

Highlights
  • Keyword-based website blocking
  • Customizable blocklists
  • PIN code protection for settings
  • Safe browsing for children
  • Popup confirmation option
Features
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Website Blocker is a web browser that will protect you from websites that contain Blocked Keywords that you provide! Prior displaying, the website is scanned for these keywords and blocked when they contain any them. Ideal to provide your children with a safe browsing experience! In the Settings, you can customize the list with Blocked Keywords. When any of these keywords is found on a website, the website will be blocked. You can also choose to show a popup asking you whether you are sure to access the website. All blocking settings can be protected by a PIN code. Website Blocker - for a safe and protected browsing experience!

About

Talking Archiver

This app allows you to listen to your text files, including PDFs and RTFs, with a text-to-speech feature. You can input text from various sources, edit archives, and even have the app speak during phone calls. Customize speaking speed, volume, and repeat times.

Highlights
  • Listen to PDF, RTF, and plain text files
  • Background speaking functionality
  • Input text via pasteboard or files
  • Supports over 30 international languages
  • Edit archives with memos
  • Speak during phone calls
  • Adjust speaking speed and volume
Features
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A valuable and powerful text archives manager. Listen our favorite PDF, RTF, and plain text file whenever and wherever. When this App is talking, just tap the home key or lock your device, the App will repeat talking in the background status. Input text from pasteboard, plain text files, PDF files, or RTF files. It could talk the text with over 30 international languages. The repeating talking all of archives could help us listen and go over our important archives. Edit the text archives, we could add some memo to our archives and update the archives where and whenever. With the help of the powerful pasteboard, we could copy the text from an email,text, web page of safari, or any other text as long as the text is not part of an image. Then paste all of these text to the Talking Archiver. With the help of iTune File Sharing, we could move the any text files from the PC to this App file sharing folder. In the latest MAC OS, in the finder, if we already connect our iOS device, we could open the file tab page in the device. In the file page, we could find the Talking Archiver and move the files to the Talking Archiver item. After Tap the import button at the bottom left corner and select the import file item, the open file view will list all of file in the sharing folder. All of the important text data will be saved to the Core Data Database system. One archive would be talked by one speaker. So it is very interesting to listen several speakers talk the text records one by one. As a talking app, the user also could select the talking volume and the talking speed. The user could select the repeating times of the talking. Talking solution by Long Press gesture. In the main view, long press the single table cell, the related text note will be talked repeated. The color of talked cell will be red color. At this talking situation, we long press another table cell, the current talking will be stopped. The App will immediately start talking the text of another table cell. We could stop the talking situation by tapping the stop button. Talking Solution by tapping the talking all button. In the main view, when we tap the talking all button, the app will talk the text of each note one by one. If we need to skip, we could tap the next button or the prev button at the bottom toolbar. Export the archives to the plain text file, export the pasteboard , export to the email box by sending email, export to the iCloud Drive or other App by tapping :export to remote files item in the export menu. This edition could talk the text archives to the upcoming phone call with the phone. The iOS version should be 13.0 or newer. When a phone call is coming and is accepted, then tap the all talking button in the main view or tap the talk button in the single view, after that, both sides could hear the same talking contents at the same time in the same speed. The phone owner could hear the talking from the phone. The people in the calling could hear the talking in the call. In short, this App includes the file editor, the pasteboard editor, the database management system,the talking ability, and sending email features.As a result, wherever, we could review,create, share and listen the talking of our favourite archives.

Screenshots

Website Blocker3 screens
Talking Archiver4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Website Blocker at Free against Talking Archiver's $0.99. Website Blocker also leads on ratings volume (95 vs 1). Talking Archiver's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, update cadence, device support 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

Website Blocker is free to download; Talking Archiver costs $0.99 up front. Website Blocker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Talking Archiver asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Website Blocker against 4.0 for Talking Archiver. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Website Blocker has 95 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Website Blocker ships an update every 3 months, Talking Archiver every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Website Blocker versus Talking Archiver: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWebsite BlockerTalking Archiver
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.0 (95 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews10.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings95 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better11.1
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCaramba App Development方 沈

Customer experience

Website Blocker

All ratings93 ratings
Positive74.2%
Neutral6.5%
Negative19.4%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive10.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative70.0%

Talking Archiver

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Website Blocker

One-time1
  • Unlimited keywords$0.99
None

Talking Archiver

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Website Blocker free?
Website Blocker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Talking Archiver free?
Talking Archiver costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Website Blocker or Talking Archiver?
Website Blocker and Talking Archiver are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 95 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Website Blocker or Talking Archiver have ads?
Website Blocker shows ads; Talking Archiver does not.
Which is updated more often, Website Blocker or Talking Archiver?
Website Blocker ships an update every 3 months, and Talking Archiver every 5 months. Most recently, Website Blocker was updated on November 1, 2026 and Talking Archiver on October 28, 2026.

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