Silentium — Privacy and Ad Blocker for faster browsing
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | Free | Francesco Zerbinati | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Silentium is no longer actively maintained. We may remotely updates the ad-blocking rules from time to time, but nothing more. Thanks to everyone who bought the app for supporting us.
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Silentium is the best ad blocker for iOS. It makes browsing the web on your iPhone and iPad even more enjoyable by removing annoying ads.
◆ Websites will load up to 4 times faster
◆ Consume less battery and data
◆ No longer let ad networks track you or your browsing
◆ No longer show annoying social media buttons, cookie banners, and more
SAVE YOUR BATTERY AND DATA
Ads can cause pages to load slower, consume more battery, and eat up your data plan. With Silentium, sites will use up to 25% less battery life and up to 50% less of your data plan. This lets you use your data for content you want, not ads.
SECURITY
Silentium also blocks a lot of nasty stuff like malware, tracking services and cookies. Enabling our privacy filter you will make sure that you are always be protected.
WHITE LISTING
We believe in “ethical ad blocking”. Some sites serve tasteful, unobtrusive ads. If you trust and want to support one of these, you can White List it. This will enable ads and scripts on that specific site only.
NOT ONLY AN AD BLOCKER
Silentium provides advanced features like a low traffic mode (that allows you to save even more data), a filter for cookie-law banners (that removes those “this site uses cookies” warnings) and a basic parental control filter (that blocks adult websites).
ALL SYNCED UP
Silentium syncs all your rules and preferences via iCloud so that you will have a consistent experience on all your devices.
WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU
We strive to make Silentium the best ad blocker on iOS!
If you have something to say, please get in touch with us via email, [email protected], or on Twitter, @silentiumapp
Reviews
Works well
Sweetsue555
Tried a free ad blocker that did not seem to do much. This one was listed in Appadvice and definitely works for me. The searching speed is really quick and the lack of annoying advertisements is well worth the few dollars.
Works 99% of the time
Junker52612
Like the title says, it works great 99% of the time, but sometimes it blocks flash ran photos that are part of a website, that I am assuming the blocker thinks are ads. It happens but is rare. I would buy again.
Excellent Support and Great Features!
scjr63
The developer of this app is very responsive and committed to improve this already great content blocker. This developer deserves your support. It has a great UI and lots of useful features, including customized whitelisting. It blocks sponsored ads as well. Wonderful and well done app!
Most Consistent
RealChill11
This app has been great from the moment I installed it. The interface is simple, but works as advertised and I haven't had any complaints at all. I've tried multiple ad blockers and this has been the best one of them all. The recent update to the app which enables remote updating was a great and handy feature. Keep up the great work!
Don't Waste Your Money…Too Many Bugs!
schoowa
This app breaks the basic functionality of too many websites that function perfectly with other content blockers. I experimentally tried whitelisting the images and scripts on one of those sites (it didn't work), and discovered another serious bug—once a site is added to the whitelist, there appears to be no means to delete it from said list. Using the "Restore Default Configuration" button does not remove it; neither does deleting and reinstalling the entire app. I have permanently uninstalled Silentium from my iPad and will be requesting a refund from Apple.
Great! Blocks Sponsored Links
App View
Blocks everything and has a whitelist. This is my current favorite. Updated 10-3-2015 Ad Mop: removes ad space, doesn't block sponsored links, doesn't block social media buttons, no white list. 4 star Blockr: removes ad space, blocks sponsored sites, doesn't block social media buttons, has white list. In-app update sometimes glitches until shut down. 4 star 1Blocker: removes ad space, doesn't block sponsored links, blocks social media buttons, no white list. 4 Crystal: removes ad space, blocks sponsored links, doesn't block social media buttons, no white list. 5 star. Purify: removes ad space, doesn't block sponsored links, blocks social media buttons, has white list. 5 star Silentium: removes ad space, blocks sponsored links, blocks social media buttons, has white list. 5 star, current favorite. Issue with previous version has been fixed!
