Collector vs Basic Web Browser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Collector
Effortlessly catalog your console game collection. Track and organize thousands of titles across numerous platforms with a user-friendly interface. Never guess what games you own again.
- Catalog game collections
- Organize by platform
- Track thousands of games
- User-friendly interface
- Supports multiple consoles
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Collector - the ultimate app for effortless game cataloguing. Easily track, organize, and manage your console game collection in one place. Say goodbye to the hassle of guessing what’s on your shelf. Key Features: User-Friendly Interface: Swipe to quickly add games to your collection, making it easy and enjoyable to manage. Expansive Platform Support: Currently supporting over 40,000 games across popular platforms Continuous Updates: We are dedicated to expanding our platform support, ensuring you can manage games across a wide array of gaming consoles. Stay tuned for regular updates! (Ongoing enhancements including support for estimated values and game variants) Supported Platforms NES, SNES, Game Boy, GameCube Xbox, Xbox 360 Playstation, Playstation 2 Sega Genesis, Dreamcast And many more! Don't let your game collection remain a mystery. Download Collector now and experience the joy of organization Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Basic Web Browser
Browse the internet securely and quickly with this user-friendly application. It offers ad blocking, tab management, and customizable search engines. Sync your browsing data across Apple devices using iCloud.
- Ad Blocking
- Multiple Tabs
- Customizable Search Engines
- iCloud Sync
- Speech to Text Search
- Multi-language Support
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Basic Web Browser is fast yet easy to use app for browsing the internet Key Features: Access your browsing history, tabs and favorites across all your Apple devices securely with iCloud Supports Ad Blocking Supports Multiple Tabs Choose Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google or Yahoo as your search engine Search from the address bar or via speech to text Choose your own home page Always pickup with the last website you visited Save favorite websites for easy access In addition to English, the app now support for the following languages: ASSAMESE, DOGRI, FILIPINO, GUJARATI, KANNADA, KONKANI, HINDI, MAITHILI, MALAYALAM, MARATHI, NEPALI, ODIA (ORIYA), PUNJABI, SANSKRIT, SINDHI, TAMIL, TELUGU, URDU, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Afrikaans, Welsh, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Indonesian, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Armenian, Arabic, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Basque, Belarusian This app offers in app purchases, including one-time purchases and an auto renewing subscription. Terms Of Service: https://basicwebbrowser.app/tos Privacy: https://basicwebbrowser.app/pp
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Collector at 48% against Basic Web Browser's 0%. Basic Web Browser's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Collector sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Basic Web Browser sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Collector ships an update every 3 months, Basic Web Browser monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Collector | Basic Web Browser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.7 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 259 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | David Sickeldal | APG Solutions, LLC |
Customer experience
Collector
Basic Web Browser
Bugs and requests
Collector
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes too often
- Paid upgrade doesn't unlock features
- App doesn't open after paying
- In-app purchase screen appears after purchase
- Collection list not fully scrollable on older devices
Requested features
27 requests- Add emulator functionality
- Allow users to add games manually
- Include PC games platform
- Add console tracking feature
- Add PSP UMD category
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- Add Intellevision, Sega 32x, Atari consoles
- Add Commodore 64 and TI-99
- Add Atari 5200 and Atari 7800
- Add ColecoVision support
- Add TurboGrafx and Sega Game Gear
- Filter out digital games
- Show game pictures in wishlist
- Allow deletion of unwanted platforms
- Add a checklist for owned consoles
- Add more sorting options (alphabetical, date added)
- Export collection list (web, PDF, CSV)
- Add barcode scanner
- Add game counter for each system
- Add PC computer games platform
- Add modern consoles
- Add 'want' list
- Pull data from online stores for pricing
- List style view for collection
- Coverflow view for collection (sideways)
- More metadata options
- Show duplicates in metadata
- Add Atari 2600 support
Basic Web Browser
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Collector
- Pro Collector$1.991 Month
- ProCollector$4.99
Basic Web Browser
- Remove all advertisements3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Remove all advertisements3 Days trial$10.991 Year
- Remove all advertisements$0.99
- Remove all advertisements$2.99
- Remove all advertisements$3.99
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- Remove all advertisements$4.99
- Remove all advertisements$19.99
- Remove all advertisements$39.99
- Remove all advertisements$49.99
- Remove all advertisements$99.99









