- $1.99
- Category: Utilities
- First released: November 12, 2012
- Versions: 7 archived
- Installable: 4 of 7
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- Seller: FutureMind
- com.futuremind.wpad
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
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Report an issue• #1 ad blocking solution for iOS, available since 2012 • Over 750 000 app downloads worldwide • No in-app purchases, no subscription. Simple one-time payment • Top Utility ranked in all App Stores around the world • Over 1000+ carefully crafted filters • Easy setup in under 1 minute with detailed tutorial • Now with built-in Safari Content Blocker for better web ad protection
Weblock allows you to control how your device fetches online content. Easily manage PAC (Proxy Auto-Config) script and route different connections through different proxy servers. Weblock can make your device download ads (banners and popups), stats and user tracking, scripts or images through a proxy server you pick. It also allows you to use a different proxy for specific websites, like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, social widgets from websites. You can even define your own content filters. With Weblock you can control proxy for basically any network resource! This way you can choose not to reveal your real IP to different services, limit advanced ad targeting and protect your privacy.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You're responsible for selecting a proxy server that allows you to download content you wish to download. We DO NOT provide a proxy service. Using a bad proxy server (like 127.0.0.1:8021) might result in some resources being blocked. You can control your proxy settings selectively with Weblock. Contact our support if you need help choosing right proxy server or setting up Weblock on your device.
Here are some situations in which Weblock might come in handy: • Fetch ads through a proxy server you choose. Protect your privacy and prevent ad servers from knowing your real IP address and tracking you. • Disable majority of ads on websites you visit on your iOS device! Weblock supports all major web browsers: Safari, Chrome, Mercury and others (browsers redirecting web traffic through third-party servers like Puffin Browser or Opera Mini are not be supported). • Easily remove all native Facebook widgets and plugins (Like buttons, comments, etc.) on sites you visit - simply disable Facebook plugins in Weblock! Do the same for Twitter, Google+ and other social media. • Stop annoying Tapatalk popups, nagging you to download forum browsing app on every visit. • Take control of someone else's device - you can preconfigure any iOS device to control it with your Weblock app. Block or redirect any content, anytime, directly from your own device. • Your predefined filters and custom rules can be synced between all your iOS devices using iCloud. • If you wish to block something else, you can create your own rules and filters. You can block any URL (with regular expressions), domain or IP address. Don't know how? Let us know - we're here for you. • You can also use Weblock's redirect feature to emulate '/etc/hosts' entries for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This might be useful for web and app developers to pin domains to different IP addresses.
••• IMPORTANT! ••• Need help setting up Weblock? Contact our support directly through the app.
Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 12 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 18, 2013 | — | — | 46 | $1.99 |
| December 10, 2018 | — | ★ 4.4 | 3,657 | $1.99 |
| December 16, 2018 | — | ★ 4.4 | 3,674 | $1.99 |
| December 7, 2019 | — | ★ 4.4 | 4,147 | $1.99 |
| December 4, 2022 | 5.3 | ★ 4.3 | 4,828 | $1.99 |
| December 5, 2023 | 5.3 | ★ 4.3 | 4,871 | $1.99 |
| December 11, 2023 | 5.3 | ★ 4.3 | 4,873 | $1.99 |
| December 3, 2024 | 5.3 | ★ 4.3 | 4,883 | $1.99 |
| December 10, 2024 | 5.3 | ★ 4.3 | 4,882 | $1.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15Works great for me. I use it on both my iPads, an iPad 5 and iPad 9.
I’ve been using this amazing tool since 2013, and is a great way to use proxy services; without breaking your bank using a professional solution or hefty server. If anybody is using legacy mode—Which is necessary if you are using a separate VPN on iOS/iPadOS or have a device policy that prevents the aforementioned—you will need to do the following (in order) before ‘Weblocking’ will work: Enter the automatic URL or manual IP+port in ‘HTTP PROXY - Configure Proxy’ Settings, (no authentication is required)>Turn ‘Wi-Fi’ off>Open ‘App Switcher’>Quit all apps>Turn ‘Wi-Fi’ on. This is necessary for some apps and your wireless card to perform a new TCP/IP handshake with the proxy server. If the previous steps didn’t work, perform the following steps (in order): Ensure the URL or IP/port info is entered correctly>Copy/Paste if necessary>Turn ‘Wi-Fi’ off>Turn ‘Airplane-Mode’ on>Open App Switcher>Quit all apps>Perform a ‘Force Restart.’-..v(shown below)v.. On new iPhones (running iOS 15 and greater): Press the ‘volume-up’ and release quickly>Press the ‘volume-down’ button and release quickly>Press both the ‘volume-down’ + ‘power’ button at the same time and hold>While holding, power off the device>Once the ‘Apple Logo’ appears, let go of the buttons>Once screen is completely black, power-on phone. *(For older or different iPhones, search for “Force restart iPhone” on a search engine or Apples support website)*
It’s getting to the point where we’ll have to watch ads just to answer our phone. I have used and loved this app since its first appeared and it was amazing at blocking all ads. Never saw an ad till I downloaded iOS 15, which completely disabled this app. It doesn’t work on iOS 14.8 either. Really disappointed and hope there will be an update to fix this issue very soon.
I’ve been using Weblock for years and years, and it’s always done a great job. But this week, several apps finally started to break through and show ads, most annoyingly Bored Panda, which throws up full-screen video ads at random in the app, and then begs you to whitelist it (to BP: This behavior is WHY we block ads!). I’ve contacted the developer, but given how long it’s been since this has been updated, I’m not expecting a fix. It still works in some apps, particularly games, so it’s not a total loss yet, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to start looking for an ad-blocking VPN now.
does nothing do not waste money or time .
We need to report broken apps like this that don’t work but continue to take money.
Maybe I’m dumb, but this app makes no sense to me. I thought I had followed all the instructions but it’s not blocking any ads
I’ve not found a single app this thing is successful at blocking any ads whatsoever. Waste of $2
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.