The best Safari extensions for your iPhone and iPad

While Apple has hardly allowed any customizations for iOS for years, some have been made in recent years changes introduced. Widgets, customizable Lockscreens and the introduction of shortcuts belong to it. The joy about the introduction of iOS 15 was particularly great Safari-Extensions.

The extensions for Apple’s browser allowed for the first time to customize Safari to annoying content to block or to improve the general operation. A lot has happened on the extension market since the release.

We present you these Safari Extensions for iOS before:

• Block Distracting Websites: iOS
• Momentum: iOS
• Mapper for Safari: iOS
• Grammarly: iOS
• Noir: iOS
• Amplosion: iOS
• StopTheMadness: iOS

Block Distracting Websites

The Extension Block Distracting websites is mainly used when the own self control no longer works or Kinder use the device and must be prevented from accessing individual websites. The function of the extension app itself is as simple as the name. Once activated, we can distinguish between allowed and blocked websites in the menu.

While the latter are then protected from accidental locks, for example, the former land on one radical block list. Once stored, blocked websites can no longer be surfed to. If we enter a blocked website in Safari, the page does not load. Instead, we get the error message from Safari that the URL of a Content-Blocker has been blocked.

If you want to go one step further, you can also do one Timer set, which completely excludes the activation of a blocked website for a certain period of time. Without this lock, pages can otherwise be switched on or off at any time via the menu.

Block Distracting Websites ist um 4,99 Euro for iOS available.

Momentum

Momentum allows us to do that Placement of Content directly on the otherwise rather uninspired Safari start page. Specifically, let an extra search, a Wetter-Widget, To-Do-Listen, Focus and notes place. The Safari start page is more reminiscent of an Android launcher that we have filled with widgets. In addition to gimmicks such as motivating quotes, it is above all the notes and to-do lists that make the most sense for productivity.

Trello, Microsoft ToDo, Google Tasks or Github can be integrated here. The built in Pomodoro Timer also allows us to break up our day into chunky sessions.

momentum is for free for iOS available.

Mapper for Safari

One of the simpler extensions, but ones that are particularly important for many, is Mapper for Safari. while the Market dominance von Google Maps years has led to all map entries and addresses being automatically forwarded to Google Maps, we can put a stop to the whole thing with Mapper for Safari.

The extension is as simple as it is effective. After enabling these, when we tap on addresses or map entries, we will always and exclusively to Apple Maps forwarded, even if the original entry referred to Google Maps.

Folders for Safari ist um 2,49 Euro for iOS available.

Grammarly

Anyone who surfs the web primarily in English and often writes texts will quickly come to appreciate Grammarly. The app consists of a combination of Keyboard and Safari extension. After activating the extension, Grammarly helps us directly when writing individual words and entire texts. While the keyboard us appropriate Synonymous and nicer formulations suggests, the Safari extension mainly takes care of correct spelling.

If we want Grammarly to monitor our writing, we need to allow the extension to access that webpage. Grammarly then monitors our input and underlines misspelled passages with a thick red line, which differs from iOS’s own marking.

By tapping on the marked position, we then receive suggestions for any corrections. while for the formulation improvement a subscription with the proud price of 29.99 euros per month is necessary, the error correction can also be used free of charge.

Grammerly is for free for iOS available.

Noir

Extension Noir was one of the first apps in the category when the extension feature was introduced and has been one of my absolute favorites ever since. Noir gives us a helping hand wherever websites can’t native dark mode offer. The extension does not belong to the lazy variant, which simply inverts the colors and then sells the result as dark mode. Instead, on the maintaining contrast and highlights in order to distort the website as little as possible.

Setting up Noir is simple. We can bind the extension to our system settings and only have it activated if we also use the system in dark mode or simply system independent to switch on and off. In addition to the general settings, we can also make adjustments for each individual website. This includes whether we would like to have the dark mode active on the respective page at all and which one Theme should be used for this.

Themes allow us to customize parameters like Contrast, A slum or background color. While Noir supports many websites out of the box and automatically converts most of them correctly, it can still happen that a page is not displayed properly. Here you have the option of sending the affected pages directly to the developer, who will then take care of the appropriate adjustments.

Noir is over 3,49 Euro for iOS available.

Amplosion

Alongside Noir, Amplosion has also been a must-have since Apple introduced Safari Extensions for iOS. The extension takes care of blocking or bypassing AMP-Links. While we used to be sent directly to the respective websites when searching via Google, the search giant has been acting as an unwanted middleman for a long time. In detail, Google displays websites on mobile devices with its HTML derivative AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages).

This should give users the advantage of a faster loading time even with low bandwidth. While AMP has advantages, the Google feature is on topic Privacy and disinformation in criticism. If you don’t want to come into contact with AMP links in the first place, you can automatically avoid them with Amplosion.

The extension detects AMP links and replaces them with the original link to the page. Amplosion keeps track of how many times it saved us from an AMP link. Should we ever need an AMP page, we can for the respective offer exceptions add to. Amplosion was developed by the well-known iOS developer Christian Selig, who makes the extension available as open source.

amplosion is over 2,49 Euro for iOS available.

StopTheMadness

The StopTheMadness extension delivers a whole package of nerve-wracking. The Safari extension takes care of one multitude of grievancesthat we encounter on our smartphones in everyday surfing. In addition to removing AMP links, StopTheMadness mainly takes care of the many annoying factors that we all see every day. For example, the extension takes the annoying app banners who want to forward us to the respective app on the website again and again.

Also the Block copy and pastewhich is enforced on some pages, addresses the extension. Autoplay-Videoswhich can even be found on mobile websites these days, are also choked off by StopTheMadness.

In addition, the app offers even more features that are also interesting for professionals. So we can set up special redirect for websites, Custom-CSS insert or replace fonts automatically. All settings can be applied globally or specifically to selected websites.

StopTheMadness is over 9,99 Euro for iOS available.