SponsorBlock for Safari Downloads & RevenueSponsorBlock for Safari · App Store
SponsorBlock for Safari is #44 in Productivity Paid in United States and charting in 8 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026SponsorBlock for Safari update history & changes
Last change · 32 events since 24 Jun 2021Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 32 events
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · SE
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · PL
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · NL
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · RU
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · ID
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari charting in a new countryIndonesia
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · PL
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · SE
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · CA
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari charting in a new countryPoland
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · VN
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari charting in a new countryItaly
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · IT
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · KR
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari charting in a new countrySouth Korea
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · IN
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · TW
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari charting in a new countryTaiwan
- 🌟SponsorBlock for Safari: featuring lifted it to #45 (from outside the chart)Classement des apps payantes · FR
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Paid · Productivity · ES · Top Paid · Productivity · NL · Top Paid · Productivity · SE
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari charting in a new country in 3 chartsSpain · India · Sweden
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · RU
- 🌟SponsorBlock for Safari featured by Appleapps · FR
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · FR
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · FR
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Productivity · FR · Top Paid · Productivity · MX
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari charting in a new countryMexico
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · AU
- 📈SponsorBlock for Safari charting in a new countryAustralia
- 🆕SponsorBlock for Safari first spotted by AppInsider#78 in Top Paid · Productivity · United Kingdom
- 📦SponsorBlock for Safari version 6.1.6No release notes
- 🆕SponsorBlock for Safari released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Productivity PaidSponsorBlock for Safari at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-18. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A paid Safari extension that uses crowdsourced data to automatically skip sponsored segments, intros, and outros in YouTube videos for users seeking an ad-free viewing experience. The app holds strong positions in European productivity charts, ranking #2 in Indonesia and within the top 20 in France, Poland, Sweden, the UK, and the Netherlands, indicating significant regional traction despite lower visibility in North American markets.
Similar apps: AdGuard, uBlock Origin, Vinegar
SponsorBlock for Safari on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
SponsorBlock for Safari’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 2 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
SponsorBlock for Safari downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where SponsorBlock for Safari's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | ProductivityPaid | #44 |
 Canada | ProductivityPaid | #28 |
 Japan | ProductivityPaid | #94 |
 France | ProductivityPaid | #38 |
 Germany | ProductivityPaid | #125 |
 Russia | ProductivityPaid | #119 |
 India | ProductivityPaid | #185 |
 Netherlands | ProductivityPaid | #171 |
Apps near SponsorBlock for Safari on the chart
Productivity Paid, around #44.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about SponsorBlock for Safari
From the 51 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly value the time-saving benefits and seamless integration with Safari, often expressing willingness to pay for the convenience. However, a significant minority reports functional failures where segments are detected but not skipped, or the extension fails to activate entirely.
Mostly positive (78% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for good value, and being useful. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs.
What people like
- Price & subscription: “Absolutely worth the cost”
- Useful: “Works great on YouTube, not so much on Invidious”
- Ads: “This extension does what it advertised”
- Crashes & bugs: “Stopped working on mac safari”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Don't do what you're supposed to do, don't buy it, don't spend your money on this”
- Crashes & bugs: “It works but with AdGuard you use their own media player and it doesn’t work with that”
- Ads: “So it’s either block ads or block sponsors”
About SponsorBlock for Safari
Compatibility with the Vinegar extension
SponsorBlock lets you skip over sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying parts of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that let's anyone submit the start and end time's of sponsored segments and other segments of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.
You can also skip over non music sections of music videos.
This is open source and the entire database is public.
Permission explanations:
Access your data for youtube.com, www.youtube-nocookie.com:
- Used to modify the YouTube webpage
Data usage explanations:
"Authentication Information": When you install the extension, it will generate a random "userID" that is used when submitting or voting. This allows you to appear on the leaderboard and helps determine reputation of submissions.
With this extension, you will automatically skip YouTube sponsors.
More information about how it works: https://sponsor.ajay.app
Source code: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
Discord: https://discord.gg/QnmVMpU
Changelog: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/releases
Latest updates
Store changes
What SponsorBlock for Safari changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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