wBlock: Ad Blocker for Safari
Alexander Skula Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
wBlock: Ad Blocker for Safari is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by Alexander Skula. Rated 4.8/5 from 180 ratings. Requires iOS 15.4.
- Rating
- 4.8
- 180 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 30 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 16
- 2026 · v3.2.1
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About wBlock: Ad Blocker for Safari
wBlock is a free, open-source ad blocker for Safari. It blocks ads and trackers all over the web with more than 750,000 filter rules, and it never asks you to subscribe. Blocks ads in Safari wBlock leans on Safari's own content blocking, so pages come up clean and fast. Lists like AdGuard Base and EasyList refresh in the background, and you pick which ones run. Handles the sites filters can't Built-in userscripts get past anti-adblock walls and pop-ups. You can drop in your own userscripts and userstyles as well, and Return YouTube Dislike is one tap away. Zap anything you don't want to see The element zapper lets you tap a cookie banner or overlay and hide it, and wBlock remembers it next time you visit. Light on memory wBlock sits at about 40 MB of RAM when idle, so Safari stays quick. Your call on every site Turn blocking off for a site with one tap, or pause wBlock for a while when you need to. Settings sync over iCloud and can be saved to a file. Private by design wBlock collects no data and needs no account. The code lives on GitHub, so anyone can look at what it does. Free for good No subscriptions and no in-app purchases.
Ratings & reviews
4.8
180 ratings
What’s new
Version 3.2.1 · Updated October 16, 2026
• Find and add filter lists from wBlock’s catalog and AdGuard’s registry. • Rule Capacity breaks applied rules into network rules and element-hiding rules. • Click line numbers in the source editor to select lines. • Filter updates use less peak memory and read each list once. • More ad and tracking hosts are blocked by default. • Added support for denyallow rules and CSS injection written as ##selector { style }. • Resolved network-rule parsing for uBO inline comments and rules containing the object type. • Dark Reader starts with a dark page to reduce white flashes. • No Autoplay allows camera and call previews to play. • Resolved filter updates started from iOS Shortcuts and Update Filters in the iPad popup. • Resolved a toolbar crash on iOS 15 and search opening and closing on iPhone. • Resolved flashing text and unwanted green tint in iPad settings and info sheets. • The iOS update progress sheet shows when no updates were found and closes automatically. • Rule Capacity keeps its breakdown when switching apps. • Added Persian and updated German, Japanese and Turkish translations.
App privacy
The developer, Alexander Skula, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| wBlock: Ad Blocker for Safari | 4.8 / 5 (180 ratings) | Free | October 16, 2026 | |
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