What's New

Now automatically launches app and updates Safari with the whitelist when adding the website from within Safari.
Support for app thinning to reduce app size.
Performance and minor UI improvements.

App Description

Ascendant is an Ad Blocker for Safari that blocks ads while using Safari.

- Over 40,000 ad blocking rules - more than other apps
- Customizable whitelist of websites not to block
- Quickly add a website to the whitelist from inside Safari
- Automatic periodic updates of blocking rules

Content blocker in Safari is only supported on iOS 9 or later and on the following devices:
- iPhone 5s and later.
- iPad Air and later.
- iPad mini 2 and later.
- iPod touch 6th generation and later.

iPhone Screenshots

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Ascendant - an Ad Blocker for Safari screenshot 1 Ascendant - an Ad Blocker for Safari screenshot 2

iPad Screenshots

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Ascendant - an Ad Blocker for Safari screenshot 3 Ascendant - an Ad Blocker for Safari screenshot 4

App Changes

  • October 02, 2015 Initial release
  • June 21, 2016 New version 1.1