1Blocker
safari content blocker with a real $39.99 lifetime unlock
Lifetime tier
Lifetime here means the lifetime of the app and the company, not a contract: what you are really paying for is the ongoing curated blocklists, and if development stops the rules go stale even though the app keeps running. Safari-only, because it is built on Apple's content blocker API — Chrome, Firefox and web views inside other apps see nothing from it. The free version is limited to a subset of rules. At $39.99 against $14.99 a year the break-even is under three years, which is the easiest sum on this site.
Cost over five years
$40 once = 14 months of AdGuard for Safari. Over five years that is $175 rented against $39.99 owned — $135 kept, and you still have the app.
AdGuard for Safari priced at $35 a year — annual subscription on the Mac App Store. Checked 2026-09-22.
1Blocker sits in the middle of the Safari blocker spectrum: more control than the set-and-forget apps, far less fiddly than running your own filter lists. You get separate toggles for ads, trackers, cookie notices, social widgets, comment sections and adult content, and if a site breaks you can whitelist it in two taps or write a rule against a specific element yourself.
The reason it is here is the $39.99 Lifetime in-app purchase, which the developer keeps listed next to the $14.99 yearly rather than burying it. Because it is a Universal Purchase with Family Sharing, that one payment covers every Apple device in the house, which is where it beats paying a subscription per year for something that costs the developer very little to keep running.
Understand what the money is for, though: blocklist maintenance. Nobody can sell you a rule set that stays correct forever, so "lifetime" is a bet on 1Blocker LLC still being around and still shipping updates. Given the price, it is about a three-year bet.
Do not buy it if you live in Chrome, or if you mostly want YouTube ads gone — Safari's content blocker API cannot reach either. If Safari is your browser and you just want the web quieter, it is the well-behaved choice.
What it looks like
What it does
- Blocks ads, trackers, cookie banners, social widgets and comment sections
- Runs on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro from one purchase
- Custom rules and per-site exceptions you write yourself
- Regularly updated curated blocklists
- Family Sharing included with the lifetime unlock
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The facts
- Price
- $39.99
- Licence
- Lifetime plan available
- What you get
- Normally sold as a subscription, but a genuine one-time lifetime option exists.
- Details
- Free download. In-app purchases are 1Blocker Lifetime at $39.99 one-time, 1Blocker Yearly at $14.99 and 1Blocker Monthly at $2.99, with legacy-user tiers at the same yearly and monthly prices and two expired promo tiers still listed. It is a Universal Purchase with Family Sharing, so one $39.99 unlock covers your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro.
- Free trial
- Yes
- On Setapp
- No
- Minimum macOS
- not stated
- Developer
- 1Blocker LLC
- Price checked
- 2026-09-22
Check it yourself - Price band
- $30 to $60