Here's a nice article about Filtr: lifehacker.com/tech/this-tool... Also: happy pride to all 💜

Here's a nice article about Filtr: lifehacker.com/tech/this-tool... Also: happy pride to all 💜

✨ Wipr 2.30.2 is out now! ✨ Lots of Extra fixes, and assorted Filtr improvements: bug fixes, refined diagnostics, and UI tweaks. Filtr is already blocking much more than it did at launch, thanks to your reports 🙏 For those who observe it, enjoy the weekend! kaylees.site/wipr2.html

Shout out to the user who reported an app so lousy with ads, it alone made me add 12 new ad servers to Filtr 🫨

✨ Wipr 2.30.1 is out now! ✨ The Filtr unlock should now work as expected on all devices. Sorry for the confusion. Also: assorted UI improvements, and Extra fixes! kaylees.site/wipr2.html

Finally, Filtr is out now! It's the biggest update ever for Wipr 2, and it adds the most requested feature: blocking bad stuff inside of apps, too! Learn more: kaylees.site/filtr-is-out-now... Or get Wipr 2.30 now: apps.apple.com/app/id1662217862

I found a little bug that prevents using the one-time Filtr unlock on other devices! It will be fixed with the next version, and will work with your existing purchase retroactively. So please just wait a bit for 2.30.1! 🙏 There don't seem to be any other big issues 👍 Thank the testers for that 😅

Well tonight I sent so many email replies that iCloud Mail thinks I'm a spammer and is now blocking me 🤦‍♀️ I'm glad there's a lot of interest in Filtr 😅 So sorry if you didn't get a reply; I'll try to fix this tomorrow somehow. Now I'm exhausted 🫠😴

Finally, Filtr is out now! It's the biggest update ever for Wipr 2, and it adds the most requested feature: blocking bad stuff inside of apps, too! Learn more: kaylees.site/filtr-is-out-now... Or get Wipr 2.30 now: apps.apple.com/app/id1662217862

Ok I'm calling it 🥲 I was gonna launch Filtr today but App Review gotta App Review; apparently submitting 4 days in advance isn't enough. So I guess we're launching tomorrow or whenever they let me 😅 I apologize!

✨ Wipr 2.29 is out now! ✨ Extra can now stop a page's XHR requests (a way of downloading data) altogether, on top of modifying them. Also: my plan is I'm gonna submit the Filtr update on Friday, and if all goes well with App Review, release it on Tuesday, May 19th! kaylees.site/wipr2.html

Anyways, ✨ Tatami 1.7 is out now! ✨ This version adds Tatami's first guest icon, hand drawn on actual paper by my dear friend Cristina. If you'd like to make an icon for Tatami too, just let me know! kaylees.site/tatami.html

If you guys knew just how much money I had to turn down to keep Wipr honest, you'd think I was a dummy 😅

✨ Wipr 2.28.2 is out now! ✨ Your regularly scheduled batch of Extra fixes, plus some accessibility improvements thanks to a tester! Filtr might ship around the middle of the month if all goes well! So get on the beta now if you'd like to help perfect it by then: kaylees.site/wipr-filtr.html

✨ Wipr 2.28 is out now! ✨ Extra will now run its global rules on a new category of sites! This will improve coverage for common issues. Plus many many fixes as always. (Yes Germans, I hear you. It's fixed.) kaylees.site/wipr2.html

✨ Wipr 2.27 is out now! ✨ It comes with UI improvements (like smoother refresh progress) and accessibility fixes. There's a new wave of anti-blocker measures coming, but this time Extra is getting ahead of it! So you don't have to worry about it 😮‍💨 kaylees.site/wipr2.html

I think despite everything, the wildest thing about Filtr is how many people signed up for its beta! The numbers are rivaling the original Wipr 2 beta – and that one was open to the whole world, while this one is by invite only 😅 Guess there's interest huh

Well this is embarrassing, I've released the beta build instead of the App Store one to everyone 😅 I'm gonna go fix that now 😅

✨ Wipr 2.26 is out now! ✨ Extra gains two new capabilities that I can't really explain simply 😅 but result in more blocked scripts and hidden page elements. And a ton of fixes! Plus if all goes well, we can expect Filtr to ship together with iOS 26.5 🫡 kaylees.site/wipr2.html

✨ Wipr 2.25.2 is out now! ✨ Since 2.25.1 took ages to be approved, I already had this version ready to go with a ton of Extra fixes. But guess what, this one was also rejected for a silly reason 😅 Also: app will now suggest fixes for a couple more common errors. kaylees.site/wipr2.html

✨ Tatami 1.6 is out now! ✨ There's a bit of UI polish, Rulebook improvements, and small bug fixes. Mostly though: on some of the hardest levels, you can now get a little nudge before revealing the whole solution! kaylees.site/tatami.html

✨ Wipr 2 is 40% off* today**! ✨ Go go go, it's just for today 🚲💨 * Or more, depending on currency! ** Apr 5th! Whatever that means in your timezone!

✨ Wipr 2 is 40% off* today**! ✨ Go go go, it's just for today 🚲💨 * Or more, depending on currency! ** Apr 5th! Whatever that means in your timezone!

✨ Wipr 2 will be 40% off* tomorrow**! ✨ It's been a while since the last sale so why not! Enjoy! * Or more, depending on currency! ** Apr 5th! Whatever that means in your timezone!

Hey! You might've heard about the LinkedIn thing: browsergate.eu I've checked, and this only happens on Chrome – so if you're using Safari you're ok. Even if this could work in Safari, Wipr would block the reporting of the collected data anyway. In short, we're safe 👍

Hey Filtr testers! In order to get Wipr 2.25.1 approved on the Mac, I've had to delete the Filtr in-app purchase. (…don't ask) Because of that, Filtr can't be fake-purchased in TestFlight right now! But if you're already fake-purchased it, you should be able to keep testing. I'll fix this asap!

✨ Blabby 1.7 is out now! ✨ This comes with assorted UI and accessibility fixes; I've also renamed the Library to Bookmarks 'cause I feel it's a more familiar concept. I had many more improvements in mind but oh well, there's always next time! kaylees.site/blabby.html

Assorted Wipr news: • We have an English Wikipedia article now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipr in addition to German! • Total open report count is now <600 (it peaked at 1500) • Mac version 2.25.1 has been stuck in review hell for 4 days now :/ I apologize, I've done all I can :/

Hey I've seen this before somewhere This artisan somehow ripped off the UIs of both Wipr 1 and 2 at the same time, the App Store screenshots of Wipr 2, and even their app name from another blocker 🤦‍♀️

As for Filtr pricing, it seems the consensus is that a subscription is good as long as there's a one-time purchase alternative, so I think I'll go for that!

✨ Wipr 2.25.1 is out now! ✨ Well at least the iOS version; the macOS one has been stuck in "Waiting for review" for two days now 🤷‍♀️ So I guess that one's coming when they approve it. Anyways: it's lots of Extra fixes! kaylees.site/wipr2.html

What if Filtr was a subscription? It would still be something like 5 bucks, but every year. 42 cents per month 🫠 Maybe this is the right choice to make sure Wipr keeps existing. I work on it for hours every day, and that's hard to justify without any recurring revenue. What do you think tho?

Filtr testers: if you're having issues, please submit a report from Wipr, not TestFlight – this way I get the info I need. I've just disabled TestFlight feedback because most of you were using that. And if you have reported something via TestFlight, please report it again from Wipr 🙏

✨ Wipr 2.25 is out now! ✨ A lot in here! Wipr will now warn you if an App Store update is available, which should save us all some time troubleshooting! Extra has three (3!) new features that mostly help with evading sophisticated detection attempts. kaylees.site/wipr2.html

✨ Video of my talk is now available! ✨ Come watch me nervously attempt to explain the why and how of making games with SwiftUI, at iOS Conf SG 2026. We have inside baseball jokes, dancing monkeys, and Garlic Boy 🫨 #GameDev #SwiftLang #SwiftUI www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVjJ2...

Filtr testers! I've done server work, how is activation doing today? Maybe try deactivating and reactivating? It should take like two seconds and show no errors. Let me know please! P.S. Everybody say thank you to @bastiangruber.bsky.social who helped a ton!

Happy Mario Day to all who celebrate 🤭 Tatami certainly does kaylees.site/tatami.html

✨ Wipr 2.24.2 is out now! ✨ It comes with important Extra fixes! Also: the Filtr beta is going well! Only issue is activation, but once it runs, it delivers. kaylees.site/wipr-filtr.html And: I'll retire Legacy at the end of the month… bc no one cares anymore 😅 kaylees.site/wipr2.html

✨ Wipr 2.24 is out now! ✨ If a page tries to punish you by hiding some contents, Extra can now say no 🙂‍↔️ More grownup site fixes 😳 And in parallel news, the beta for the new Filtr feature has started! Learn more and sign up here: kaylees.site/wipr-filtr.html kaylees.site/wipr2.html

Filtr testers: the new iOS beta seems to break Filtr completely, so if you wanna keep testing I'd hold off on updating!

Alright, seems like I figured out the server side, at least enough for Filtr to activate 😬 We can finally start testing yay If you want to check if it's actually working, try opening this: kaylees.site/ufxtest If it's working, Safari will tell you it "couldn't load any data".

Can any tester confirm that Filtr can now be activated from the TestFlight? You might need to restart beforehand if it stalls.

Wipr progress update: I've turned the tide! Thanks to improvements to both the app, my tooling, and skill, the total number of open reports is finally going down! 🙌 In other words I'm fixing all new reports, and also nibbling at the backlog.

🚨 Beta testers! 🚨 I was finally allowed to submit a build that includes Filtr, and it's out now! However, as far as I can tell Apple hasn't certified my server component, so it won't actually work 😅 Hopefully the certification won't take as long 🫠 But we can test the UI for now!

We did it kaylees.site/tatami.html

✨ Wipr 2.23 is out now! ✨ Wipr can now set a new category of cookies, which will help get rid of a bunch of nags. Why are there so many kinds of cookies?!? If you visit the most famous grownup site you'll see a big improvement 😳 And tons of Extra fixes! 🫡 kaylees.site/wipr2.html

✨ Wipr 2.22 is out now! ✨ Surprise, another feature update! This time we're adding a new blocklist variant for websites in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. I don't remember who suggested this but thank you 😅 (also extra improvements ofc) kaylees.site/wipr2.html

✨ Blabby 1.6 is out now! ✨ It makes the UI a bit more iOS 26-like (in a good way I promise), fixes a few bugs, and enhances some under-the-hood stuff. Thanks Chris for reporting an issue! It pushed me to get this update out the door 🙏 kaylees.site/blabby.html

✨ Wipr 2.21 is out now! ✨ A more sophisticated site matching system + a new way to set cookies with expiry = bye bye to whole *classes* of cookie warnings. That + improvements to my internal tools, and I've fixed 150 reports. And those are just the ones I checked! kaylees.site/wipr2.html

I don't know either bro