Appworthy

wBlock: Ad Blocker for Safari

Free tracker & popup blocking

Alexander Skula
Download on theApp Store
App Store rating4.8★186 ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size28 MBiPhone download
CategoryUtilities
DeveloperAlexander Skula

What we found

Full report

Too little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.

Money

  • Free to download.

Not yet tested.

The store currently lists version 3.2.2, updated 2026-10-25.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

wBlock is a free, open-source ad blocker for Safari on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. Block ads and trackers with up to 750,000 Safari content-blocking rules. No subscription or in-app purchases.

Safari ad blocking

Choose recommended filter lists or add your own by URL, text, or file. Regional lists cover websites in your language. Optional filters handle cookie banners and other annoyances. Lists update automatically, and you can inspect the rules each list produces.

Userscripts and userstyles

Run built-in scripts such as AdGuard Extra and Dark Reader, or import your own userscripts. UserCSS themes support plain CSS and USO, along with Less and Stylus. Return YouTube Dislike is available in the catalog.

Native video controls

Optional Tube Cleaner and Player Cleaner bring Safari's native video controls to supported players, with Picture-in-Picture and background audio.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

Not yet tested
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.

What reviewers report

No review coverage

No review analysis published for this app.

Measurements

3 measured · 5 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Not assessed
Fewer than 50 reviews scanned — too few to state a rate
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
This app's reviews have not been assessed yet
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app 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, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Not yet tested

Not yet tested. No analysis has been run for this app, so there is no version or date to report.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 3.2.2 · 2026-10-25
Privacy & site controls • Added opt-in Global Privacy Control, synced through iCloud and included in backup exports. • Added an optional blocked-request count on Safari's toolbar icon. It is off by default and does not count every request blocked by Safari's content blockers. • Site fields accept patterns such as amazon.*. Cosmetic filtering can use selected sites or excluded sites without losing either list. Sync & storage • Stale devices no longer overwrite newer iCloud changes. • Element Zapper rules added on two devices for the same site are preserved together. • Regenerable filter caches and compiled rules are excluded from device backups while custom sources and settings are…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Assessment record

Status
Not yet tested
App identifier
wblock
Sources used
None recorded
Reviews read
None recorded
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed
How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.79 ★ · 186 ratings
Version
3.2.2
Updated
25 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
28 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Alexander Skula
Category
Utilities
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

What a missing label means

Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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