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Wipr 2
Kaylee Calderolla · 1,189 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
★★★★★
1,189 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 19 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"work"
9 negative reviews mention this · 47% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Now working great. Updated from 1 to 5 stars. It seems to be working well now. Update: 6/23/26. Again, after latest update it worked for 2 days then the ads started showing up again." - JimAtVerizon
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"does"
5 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Completely useless. All it does is make it so you can’t read the website. I don’t not sure what good that is." - Jcdonelson999
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"doesn"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Im confused. Im not sure if im just an idiot or if it just doesn’t work. I followed the instructions and it hasn’t blocked a single ad." - Koryham
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"doesn work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
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"websites"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Overrated and Overpriced. Tested on numerous websites and was ineffective. Every free extension tested was more effective. It may work better on iPad or iPhone, but not subpar for desktop Safari." - SafariUserforWork007
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"safari"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Overrated and Overpriced. Tested on numerous websites and was ineffective. Every free extension tested was more effective. It may work better on iPad or iPhone, but not subpar for desktop Safari." - SafariUserforWork007
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"getting"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Still getting ads. If this ad block is suppose to block ads, it sure is not doing it. All lists enabled including extra and still ads. Waste of money and time." - matt_is_lost
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"block"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Still getting ads. If this ad block is suppose to block ads, it sure is not doing it. All lists enabled including extra and still ads. Waste of money and time." - matt_is_lost
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"sure"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Still getting ads. If this ad block is suppose to block ads, it sure is not doing it. All lists enabled including extra and still ads. Waste of money and time." - matt_is_lost
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"wipr"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wipr ok, Filtr not so much. I never could get filter to activate. I tried a couple different iPads and my iPhone Air. No matter how many support articles I read or tricks I tried, I could never get past ‘Wipr has been disallowed from adding URL Filter Configurations ‘…" - E to the R to the I to the K
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"filtr"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wipr ok, Filtr not so much. I never could get filter to activate. I tried a couple different iPads and my iPhone Air. No matter how many support articles I read or tricks I tried, I could never get past ‘Wipr has been disallowed from adding URL Filter Configurations ‘…" - E to the R to the I to the K
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"bought"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wipr ok, Filtr not so much. I never could get filter to activate. I tried a couple different iPads and my iPhone Air. No matter how many support articles I read or tricks I tried, I could never get past ‘Wipr has been disallowed from adding URL Filter Configurations ‘…" - E to the R to the I to the K
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Overrated and Overpriced
Tested on numerous websites and was ineffective. Every free extension tested was more effective. It may work better on iPad or iPhone, but not subpar for desktop Safari.
Still getting ads
If this ad block is suppose to block ads, it sure is not doing it. All lists enabled including extra and still ads. Waste of money and time.
Bulu
Khufu
Completely useless
All it does is make it so you can’t read the website. I don’t not sure what good that is.
Im confused
Im not sure if im just an idiot or if it just doesn’t work. I followed the instructions and it hasn’t blocked a single ad.
Does not work
I got the app and it didn’t work so I thought maybe I’ll get Filtr and nope nothing works. I did everything correctly but it just seems like the app is no good anymore.
Shady pricing tactics
Version 2 was launched as an upgrade to version 1, but it had no difference. To force people to buy it, version 1 was withdrawn. After selling at a lifetime price, another subscription has been added with another lifetime price. Greed has no bounds. Neither does this developer in their shady pricing.
Did nothing
Bought this for one specific site for streaming and it does nothing. Enabled all the extensions. Kinda annoyed, I’d like my 5 bucks back honestly.
Positive reviews are astroturfed
Failure of an ad blocker. Costs money, yet 75% of ads come through. Developer’s FAQ file seems snarky.
Didn’t Stop Ad Redirects
Paid for it. Didn’t work.
Buggers up many websites
Prevents many websites from opening and gives ADBLOCKER detected pop up. Even after following all set up instructions explicitly. 1Blocker still reigns supreme opening all websites and no pop ups
Doesn’t work for safari
I’m still getting pop up ads and viruses
Now working great
Updated from 1 to 5 stars. It seems to be working well now.
Update: 6/23/26. Again, after latest update it worked for 2 days then the ads started showing up again.
Update: 6/23/26. Again, after latest update it worked for 2 days then the ads started showing up again.
Wipr ok, Filtr not so much
I never could get filter to activate. I tried a couple different iPads and my iPhone Air. No matter how many support articles I read or tricks I tried, I could never get past ‘Wipr has been disallowed from adding URL Filter Configurations ‘ which made the whole app useless to me. There are already browsers that block ads. The only reason I bought Wipr was for Filtr.
I will say that Wipr worked on most sites- not YouTube though.
If I had known I could not get Filtr to work, I would not have bought the app.
I will say that Wipr worked on most sites- not YouTube though.
If I had known I could not get Filtr to work, I would not have bought the app.
No FILTR for iPad
I bought this specifically for my iPad so I was very sad to find out it’s not even an option for it
I’m lease remove the subscription
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Only YouTube ads
Overall doesn’t work. The only ads it successfully blocked is on YouTube. On normal browsing websites for reading, it either fails to block ads or if it does, safari repeatedly crashes so the site is unusable anyway.
Too difficult
I loved Wipr, had no issues until a recent Apple update. Now it doesn’t work and I’m not tech savvy enough to know how to fix it. I want to get rid of it and can’t even figure that out.
Not helpful, needs some work
Maybe it’s just the web getting exponentially worse, but I find that this app leaves most ads and annoyances exactly where they are. I’ve also had to disable Wipr far more often than any other blocker I’ve tried due to it just flat out breaking a website.
Pretty disappointed. Need to find a new blocker now, because my mobile browsing experience currently is very bad.
On the major plus side, the developer pushes lots of updates and clearly cares about the project. I can’t fault them for that!
Pretty disappointed. Need to find a new blocker now, because my mobile browsing experience currently is very bad.
On the major plus side, the developer pushes lots of updates and clearly cares about the project. I can’t fault them for that!
Sentiment summary
92%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
7%
Negative (1-2★)