“Used to be flawless, no longer works — This app used to block all ads in all apps but ever since iOS 27, it no longer blocks anything. Too bad I hope they push an update soon and if so I’ll happily update to 5 stars as it was before.”
Independent automated assessment · 2 signal sources · 510 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.3 ★34,086 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
26 MBApp size
$1.99In-app purchases
About this app
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.7.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.7.3, updated 2021-07-27.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 39 distinct reviewers — 7.6% of the 510 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“App No Longer Updated — This used to work great but it hasn’t been updated for years. Lots of ads come through now”
“No longer working well — This used to work very well, but for the past few months it has allowed far too many ads. Going to switch to a different ad blocking app.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.7.3.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business model$1.99
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.