Safari, minus the ads.
Elyd blocks ads, trackers, cookie banners and page clutter in Safari on iPhone and iPad. Pages load faster and read cleaner.
Faster pages, with more rules doing the work.
Page load time
Total for 9 sites
- Elyd
- 8.0s
- Competitor A
- 9.2s
- No blocker
- 19.6s
Requests let through
Total for 9 sites
- Elyd
- 740
- Competitor A
- 824
- No blocker
- 1,723
Rule load after an update
Time for Safari to load the lists. Elyd carries ~137,000 rules, Competitor A ~97,000.
- Elyd
- 2.7s
- Competitor A
- 3.6s
All results
| Measure | Elyd | Competitor A | Competitor B | Competitor C | No blocker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page load time, 9 sites | 8.0 s | 9.2 s | TBD | TBD | 19.6 s |
| Requests let through, 9 sites | 740 | 824 | TBD | TBD | 1,723 |
| Rule load after an update | 2.7 s | 3.6 s | TBD | TBD | — |
| Rules | ~137,000 | ~97,000 | TBD | TBD | — |
| Ad and tracker requests blocked, 73 pages | 6,992 | 6,678 | TBD | TBD | — |
In our tests: page loads and requests use the same 9 ad-heavy news, recipe and weather sites, 3 runs each with a fresh cache, in Safari’s WebKit engine. Blocked requests are counted on 73 pages from 100 popular sites.
Elyd never sees what you browse.
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Blocking runs inside Safari
Elyd hands its rules to Safari through Apple’s content blocker API.
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No account
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No settings to tune
Turn on its extensions once.
Stays up to date on its own.
- ~137,000
- Rules across 4 Safari extensions
- ~2× a week
- Lists refresh in the background. Only lists that changed get reloaded, so updates stay light.
About the name
Elyd comes from elide: to leave something out without fuss. Say it “eh‑LIDE.”