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Best Ad Blocking Apps for iPhone (2026)
Brave Browser & Search Engine is the top-ranked of 27 ad blocking apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 665,527 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 665,527 ratings · score 98 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 73,879 ratings · score 93 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 12,923 ratings · score 91 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 19,948 ratings · score 90 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 19,824 ratings · score 90
What belongs in this list
Stop ads from showing while browsing websites and watching online video.
Not here: A general content or tracker blocker alone; A website blocker that stops access to sites alone; A VPN alone; A pop-up warning alone; App blocking alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 665,527 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 73,879 ratings · score 93 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 12,923 ratings · score 91 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 19,948 ratings · score 90 · best in class
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 19,824 ratings · score 90 · excellent
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 4,656 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 6,183 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 314,214 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 9
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 9,908 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.0 · 43,303 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 9,811 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 12
Free download · ★ 3.9 · 9,485 ratings · score 84 · good - 13
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,444 ratings · score 84 · good - 14
$4.99 + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 1,340 ratings · score 82 · good - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 4.0 · 4,678 ratings · score 79 · good - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 7,360 ratings · score 74 · good - 17
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 5,105 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 18
$1.99 · ★ 4.3 · 34,121 ratings · score 64 · situational - 19
$9.99 · ★ 4.4 · 3,133 ratings · score 64 · situational · provisional - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 921 ratings · score 63 · situational · provisional - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 3.4 · 3,315 ratings · score 56 · weak · provisional - 22
$1.99 · ★ 4.3 · 4,892 ratings · score 54 · weak - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 7,983 ratings · score 47 · avoid · provisional - 24
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 585 ratings · score 47 · avoid · provisional - 25
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,797 ratings · score 43 · avoid · provisional - 26
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 4,377 ratings · score 38 · avoid · provisional - 27
Free + IAP · ★ 3.0 · 3 ratings · score 19 · avoid · provisional
New in the last 30 days
- 1Blocker: Ad Blocker (S)
- Adblock Plus for Safari & Apps (A)
- Naka AdBlocker VPN (A)
- Ad Blocker · (A)
- UbeCast: Video Ad Blocker (A)
- Ad Blocker VPN & DNS - Blokada (B)
- Vivaldi Powerful Web Browser (B)
- AdWise: Ad Blocker & VPN (B)
- Ad Blocker & Browser Protect (B)
- AdBlock (C)
- AdGuard Pro: Safari Ad Blocker (C)
- AdBlock for Safari + VPN (D)
- Weblock: adblock & proxy (D)
- Online Shield - Fast VPN Proxy (F)
- BlockBear! (F)
- Tube Browser Pro (F)
Questions people ask
- What is the best ad blocking app for iPhone?
- Brave Browser & Search Engine, S tier, ranked #1 of 27, rated 4.8 by 665,527 people.
- Which ad blocking apps are free?
- 23 of 27 are free to download: Brave Browser & Search Engine (S), AdBlock Pro for Safari (S), 1Blocker: Ad Blocker (S), AdGuard Ad Blocker for Safari (S) and more. 19 of them sell in-app purchases.
- Which ad blocking app has the best App Store rating?
- Brave Browser & Search Engine at 4.8 from 665,527 ratings.
- How many ad blocking apps reach S or A tier?
- 11 of 27. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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