On September 16th, 2015, I launched the first version of 1Blocker on the App Store. Today marks the five-year milestone 🎂 for us. I’m very proud of our team and incredibly thankful to our users for their support for the past five years. We wouldn’t be here today without you!

To celebrate 1Blocker’s five-year birthday, we are offering our Premium service at a discounted price for one week. We rarely do sales, so go get 1Blocker Premium while it’s on sale:

• Yearly $9.99, reg. $14.99 (33% off)
• Monthly $2.49, reg. $2.99 (17% off)
• Lifetime $32.99, reg. $38.99 ($6 off)

Here are a few facts from our journey of building 1Blocker.

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, in an interview to Fast Company:

I think the protections that we’re building in, to intimately say that the customer’s device is in service of the customer, not of another company or entity–the customer is the one who is in control of their data and their device–is what’s most compatible with human rights and the interest of society. And so that’s what we’re going to keep trying to support–our customers being in control of their privacy.

[Fast Company]

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We're so proud 🤩 to be included as one of the best iPhone apps of 2020!

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Our users are happy with the results they get after installing 1Blocker. However, there are some limitations in what the API can do. Also, we think several enhancements can be made to further improve the user experience.

Here’s our list of features and improvements we’d love to see in the next version of iOS and macOS related to content blocking in Safari.

Continue reading ➜

With the release of 1Blocker 3.5, we improved support for accessibility features (VoiceOver) that let you experience everything 1Blocker has to offer.

We also added new regional filters for better 🇨🇳 Chinese and 🇵🇱 Polish ad blocking.

We added new blocking stats that you can access via our 1Blocker Button extension for Safari.

It’s a great way of visualizing how much tracking 👀 on sites there is nowadays. In addition to the blocked resources chart, it also shows the total number of blocked ads, trackers, and other resources.

We are constantly improving 1Blocker and listening to your feedback. Here are two major updates for you in version 3.2:

New localizations

We translated the app into three more languages. 1Blocker now fully supports 🇪🇸Spanish, 🇫🇷 French, and 🇮🇹 Italian. Let us know if you like it!

If the localization can be improved in any way, please reach out to support@1blocker.com or visit our Translator Center at translate.1blocker.com.

New country-specific rules

We expanded our Regional section of built-in rules with new country-specific additions for improved Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, and Dutch ad blocking.

1Blocker for iPhone, iPad, and Mac has just been fully localized into German 🇩🇪 now! We’re so excited to share this update with our Deutsch-speaking users. We made this update for you, and we hope you like it. Get the latest version from the App Store.

If the translation can be improved in any way, please let us know by reaching out to support@1blocker.com or by visiting our Translator Center at translate.1blocker.com.

The following change, I think, will be appreciated by all our Mac users. We’ve managed to improve the interface performance, so now 1Blocker for Mac should run faster and better than ever before. 🚀

Of course, we’ve also updated our built-in rules, so even if you use the free version, you get all the latest filters as of February 17th.

We have some exciting new things just a little farther down the road, so stay tuned. Follow us @1BlockerApp on Twitter.

If you’re feeling generous with your time, you can support us by leaving a nice review in the App Store. We’d also appreciate it if you recommend 1Blocker to someone. As an indie developer, it means the world to us. Thank you!

After eight months of hard work, we are very excited to show you what’s new in 1Blocker for you. We improved the app across all platforms — 1Blocker is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

I wrote a detailed overview of the new 1Blocker for Mac in our blog. Here's a quick recap!

✋ Better unwanted content blocking
☁️ Frequent rules updates via our cloud service
👀 New Safari extension that shows what was blocked on a site (Mac only)
😻 New interface makes it easier to use for regular people, not just geeks
🎨 Advanced customization (custom rules, groups)
💸 Basic features available for free now

All existing customers who paid for any 1Blocker app in the past will get the new 1Blocker on all platforms for free forever. There's also one year of free trial for them to try our optional cloud updates.

Thank you all for using and supporting 1Blocker to grow! 🚀