Browser extensions are a great way to simplify and quicken menial tasks. And thanks to iOS 15 and later, Safari on iPhone and iPad now supports an array of helpful and handy extensions. I have explored the App Store extensively to find the best Safari extensions for the iPhone and iPad, and here are my top picks.
But before we move on to the listing, let’s see how you can enable Safari extensions on your iPhone and iPad.
How to use Safari extensions on iPhone and iPad
There are two major types of Safari extensions currently available for iPhone and iPad:
- Embedded– Extensions that run in the background like content blockers, auto-fill passwords, auto-correct grammar, etc. However, you may have to turn it on via Settings → Safari → Extensions → toggle on the extension.
- Manual – Extensions that you’ll have to manually run from the Share Sheet or the Extension tab, quite like clicking a Safari extension in Mac.
For more details, check out our step-by-step guide on using Safari extension on iPhone and iPad.
Best Safari extension for security and protection
1. AdGuard – Block ads on the go
Extension category – Embedded
99.99% of web surfers hate ads. But if you love or enjoy those disturbing elements, feel free to skip to the next extension. However, it is way more than a free tool to block ads and trackers.
AdGuard also offers advanced tracking protection, up to 4x faster speed acceleration, reduced traffic consumption, better battery performance, enabling a faster, smoother web surfing experience.
The neat thing is that you can manage what content to block, i.e., which filters, rules, and exceptions to apply. And if you want to avail custom or advanced security filters and DNS privacy, the premium version could help.
Key features
- Simple, intuitive UI
- Array of features
- Powerful ad filters
- Variety of language-specific filters
- Ad blocker in Safari
Price: Free (Subscription starts at $0.99/month)
2. 1Password – Protect your passwords and more
Extension category – Embedded
1Password becomes even smarter and smoother with the iOS 15 support. Get immediate access to everything stored in 1Password directly from iPhone/iPad Safari, from passwords and cards to notes.
Moreover, it could autofill logins, credit cards, emails, 2FA code, addresses, and more across multiple pages. It will also give in-page filling suggestions, similar to its desktop counterpart. Indeed, it is one of the most potent password managers out there.
What I absolutely adore is that you can organize your passwords under different categories for easy access. However, it no longer offers a free plan, which might be a sore point for many users.
Key features
- One tap sign-in
- Auto-fill forms and more
- Smart Passwords suggestions
- Strong encryption
- 30-day trial period
Price: Free (Monthly subscription for $3.99)
3. Clario – Powerful security solution
Extension category – Embedded
If secure browsing is your no.1 concern, Clario is the best bet for you. For starters, it offers identity protection with a data breach monitor that helps protect your passwords, card details, and other info. The ad blocker ensures that you have a clean and annoyance-free time online.
Plus, a built-in reliable VPN encrypts your data, whether you’re at the home, office, or public network, without compromising on browsing speed. Clario also offers multiplatform support, i.e., you can access it across all your devices: Mac, iPhone, iPad, and web.
There’s also 24/7 live expert assistance that’ll help you through any related roadblocks. The only chink in the armor is that it’s expensive, and you’ll have to cough up $9/month for a single device.
Key features
- Adblocking
- Built-in VPN
- Data breach monitor
- 24/7 expert assistance
- 7-day trial period
Price: Free (Monthly subscription starts at $9)
4. Hyperweb – All-in-one browser extension for iPhone and iPad
Extension category – Embedded
Designed to deliver a personalized Safari experience, Hyperweb can wear many hats. It enables users to create blockers, disable cookies, manage dark mode, open links in specific apps, inject custom CSS and JS scripts, and more.
The app boasts over 100 enhancements suggestions in its gallery. Plus, it auto-suggests relevant enhancements as you surf websites. You can even add websites, preferred news sites, and more as favorites to create a personalized search engine.
Although, if you aren’t a pro at these things, the Hyperweb app might look a bit scary. I hope the makers add a tutorial within the app or on their website to help noobs maneuver the app.
Key features
- Superbly versatile app
- Block ads, cookies, and more
- Auto-enhancement suggestions
- Customize your search
Price: Free (Monthly subscription for $2.99)
iOS Safari extensions for saving money
5. Honey – Coupons, codes, and beyond
Extension category – Embedded
Honey has been a shopaholic’s favorite web extension for years now. And now it brings all that goodness to iPhone. When exploring shopping sites on Safari, Honey will look for offers and auto-pop discount coupons.
What’s more? The extension will auto-apply the best available coupon codes during checkout. Honey also helps you save money via cashback, even on day-to-day essentials. Moreover, you can grab a chance to earn double cashback and other exciting offers.
Key features
- The best offers across the web
- Time and money-saving
- Auto-applies coupons
Price: Free
7. CardPointers – Credit card & cashback manager
Extension category – Embedded
CardPointers is a shopaholic’s paradise as it helps them save money and make money via cashback, points, miles, and more. The extension automatically looks for offers on the current website corresponding to the cards you own.
After that, it suggests which card to use right now to avail of maximum savings. Notably, CardPointers can track category bonuses, recurring bank credits, etc., from over 3000 credit cards, including Amex, Bank of America, and Citibank.
And whether you own 2 or 20 cards, it can help you earn more points, miles, and cashback on each one of them.
Key features
- Easy to use
- Auto-track offers
- Supports over 3000 cards
- Suggests you better cards
Price: Free (Monthly subscription for $3.99)
Best note-taking Safari extensions for iPhone and iPad
8. Pinterest – Best for collecting inspirations
Extension category – Share Sheet
Pinterest is already one of the most popular mood-boarding apps. And this iPhone Safari extension further enhances its utility. You can pin any idea you spotted while surfing aboard.
Whether, it’s a tech hack, mesmerizing wallpaper, recipe, DIY project, or hairstyle, never forget an excellent idea you find on the internet.
Interestingly, the Share Sheet extension also works with the Photos app. So, you can easily upload photos and videos to Pinterest from the camera roll/gallery.
Key features
- Quickly pin websites to Pinterest
- Save in existing board or make a new one
- Supports the Photos app
Price: Free
9. Pocket – Collect all references in one place
Extension category – Share Sheet
Consider Pocket as the Pinterest for news, articles, and web pages. That’s right! You can upload anything you discover online from any publisher and save it to read, listen to, or watch later.
The best part, the website is instantly saved on the Pocket account without moving you out of the Safari app. So, your workflow is not interrupted, and a read/refer list is prepared in the background.
Key features
- Cloud sync across devices
- Organize and search via content type
- Converts text into audio
- Find related news or articles with ease
Price: Free (Pocket Premium for $4.99)
10. Bring! – Never forget an ingredient
Extension category – Extensions tab
If you love surfing and exploring new recipes on the web, Bring! is the perfect app for you. You can bookmark any recipe you love and add its ingredient to your shopping list with a few taps.
Just tap the extension icon from the address bar and select transfer recipe. In the pop-up window, either select Bookmark recipe or Add ingredients to the list. Subject to the recipe, you can also adjust the servings before adding the ingredients to your shopping list.
Further, you can segregate the lists according to stores, upcoming parties, etc., and share them with friends and family from the app. Moreover, save the loyalty cards in the app to ensure seamless and quick checkout every time.
Key features
- Bookmark recipes you love
- Add all ingredients to the shopping list in a tap
- Quick shopping and checkouts
- Organize shopping list as per the will
Price: Free (Monthly subscription for $1.99)
11. Mailo – Note-to-self companion
Extension Category –Share Sheet
Don’t like depending on third-party apps for securing your inspiration or read-later list? Don’t want to share your random finds with the world? Well, mail it to yourself!
This Safari extension for iPhone makes this a breeze. You can tap a button and email yourself anything interesting you come across quickly. Moreover, there are no ads, tracking, or analytics, so you can rest assured about your privacy.
Key features
- Smooth, minimal interface
- Supports PDF, doc, photos as well
- Supports Siri Shortcuts support
Price: $2.99
Focus-oriented Safari extensions on iPhone
12. Momentum – Inspirational wallpapers and more
Extension category – Embedded
One of Chrome’s best extensions comes to iPhone, iPad, and Mac Safari. With Momentum, you can personalize the Safari start page and convert it into a smart dashboard. It is designed to eliminate distractions, beat procrastination, and enhance your productivity.
For starters, it will welcome you with inspirational photos and quote every day. You can set daily goals, track your to-do list, check the weather forecast, add sites as favorites, or set uptime/downtime with a Pomodoro timer.
Key features
- Daily inspirational photos and quote
- Great built-in features
- Enhance your productivity
- Most features are free
Price: Free
13. Block Distracting Websites – Keep distractions at bay
Extension category – Embedded
Do you get easily distracted or want to block some websites from your kids? Whatever the reason, this extension can be your bae, as it helps you temporarily block distracting websites.
You can set a timer to lift the block or unblock websites when your work is done. On top of it all, the app’s simple and minimal interface makes using the extension a breeze.
Key features
- Block as many websites as you want
- Clean and minimal
- Provides a list of potentially distracting websites
Price: $2.99
Best productivity Safari extensions for iPhone
14. Mate translate – Safari extension for quick translation
Extension category – Embedded
While Safari finally supports webpage translation, the feature currently has limited language and region support. In comparison, Mate could translate text into over 103 languages, even if you are offline.
Moreover, you can seamlessly translate complete websites or selected text automatically. Mate can be the perfect mate for you if you come across foreign language sites regularly or want to learn a new one.
Key features
- An extensive language translation app
- Automatically translates websites or selected text
- Supports over 103 languages
- One-time cost
Price: $29.99
Note: If you are looking for a free translator extension, try Microsoft Translator. It supports up to 70 languages. However, it will not be automatic. You’ll have to enable it from the Share Sheet.
15. Grammarly – Correct grammar on the go
Extension category – Embedded
Whether you are a pro or beginner at English, typing mistakes are common, especially when typing fast. Grammarly’s Safari extension ensures that you don’t make silly mistakes while typing in the browser.
The extension is fruitful for any webpage that uses keyboard input, from mails, social media, note-taking to form. Moreover, the freemium version is perfect for most users. It can quickly catch and correct your mistakes. So, it’s a win-win situation.
Key features
- Highlights your mistakes
- One-tap correction
- Great freemium version
- Works with most sites
Price: Free (Monthly subscription for $29.99)
16. Mapper for Safari – Extension for Apple Maps lover
Extension category – Embedded
What happens when you search for an address on Google and tap for directions? Well, instead of opening the link in Apple Maps, you are redirected to Google Maps (if you have the app).
But what if you want to navigate via Apple Maps? You’ll either have to copy the address and paste or use the Mapper Safari extension to auto-redirect the Google Maps link to Apple Maps. The second option sounds neater right?
What’s more? It will cost you less than a Dollar to avail of this convenience.
Key features
- Seamless redirect
- Turn it on/off from Safari
- Worth the price, if you travel a lot
Price: $0.99
17. Noir – Safari extension for dark mode
Extension category – Embedded
While fine websites like iGeeksBlog happily offer dark mode, some choose to stay away from the setting. But why shouldn’t you get dark mode if you like it? Especially when Noir is here. The extension enables dark mode automatically for every website you visit.
Remarkably, this one does a thorough job and not just inverted colors. The dark style varies according to the colors used on the webpage and differs for each website.
What’s more? You get to choose what you want. If you want dark mode on some and light on some websites, just instruct Noir, and it will follow your command.
Key features
- Auto-enables dark mode
- Dark mode tailored to each website
- Customization options
Price: $2.99
Helpful Safari extensions
18. Web Inspector – Inspect any websites code
Extension category – Extensions tab
A true gem for developers; with one tap, you get to examine the backend of any website. Whether you are a student, inquisitive for the behind-the-scenes action, or a developer who wants to inspect their handy work, Web Inspector is the Safari extension for all of it.
You can also view, edit, inspect, and search through DOM (Document Object Model) elements or check out nodes and styles. Manage the JavaScript commands to debug or modify the page and quickly surf through details like logs, errors, warnings, network requests, session storage, and more.
Key features
- One-tap access
- Shares comprehensive data about the webpage
- Free to use tool
- Great for beginners
Price: Free
Note: Another great option for viewing HTML details is Achoo. While it costs $0.99, it offers a variety of options.
19. Amplosion – Auto-redirect AMP links
Extension category – Embedded
As mobile surfing becomes common, so are Accelerated Mobile Pages, aka AMP webpages. But what if you prefer standard links? Well, the developer of Apollo, Christian Selig, has a solution. Amplosion auto converts AMP links into their standard counterpart so that you can surf with ease.
You can also add specific websites to the Allowlist and continue with their AMP versions. Moreover, the open-source extension also counts how many times it has been used till now.
Key features
- Automatic functioning
- Completely open source
- Home screen widgets
- Includes an adorable digital dog
Price: $2.99
20. xSearch for Safari – Switch search engines in a jiffy
Extension category – Embedded
Though changing Safari’s default search engine is not that big of a task, it might be troublesome for someone who likes to switch often. xSearch Safari extension allows you to access multiple search engines with a simple shortcut instantly.
For instance, use ‘G Apple’ to search with Google and ‘DDG Apple’ to search with DuckDuckGo. Moreover, it also supports a URL scheme, i.e., if you search ‘twapp apple’ in Safari or Spotlight, it will open Twitter app instantly.
Key features
- Switch between search engines instantly
- Extensive search engine gallery
- Customizable for advanced users
- URL scheme
Price: $1.99
21. URL to QR – Quickly share websites with anyone
Extension category – Extensions tab
There are several options to share a URL with someone, and a QR Code is one of the most effective ones. While some websites would do it for free, the task of copy, pasting, and converting can be tiresome.
This is where this extension steps in and sweeps off all related issues. All you have to do is tap the extension icon, select URL to QR, and tada, you’ll have a QR, all ready to share with other devices or persons.
Key features
- One tap conversions
- Quick and easy
Price: $1.99
Safari extensions for entertainment
22. PiPifier – PiP mode for the win
Extension category – Extensions tab
Not impressed with iOS PiP mode? No worries, PiPifier is a free-to-use action extension that can play any HTML 5 video in Picture-in-Picture mode, from YouTube to Vimeo. Notably, most websites use this format for their video, which means you can play almost every web video in PiP mode. And that too in two taps.
Play the video, tap the extension’s icon, and then PiPifier. The video will instantly appear in a floating window; you can now move on to any other app without interrupting the video.
Key features
- Supports almost all web videos
- All iOS PiP mode features are maintained
- Easy to use
Price: Free (Voluntary tip starting from $0.99)
23. Vidimote for Safari – Smart playback controls
Extension category – Extensions tab
If you love watching videos in Safari on iPhone or iPad, you’ll fall head over heels for this one. Vidimote is a clever Safari extension that brings smooth playback controls to your fingertips. You can speed up, jump ±10 seconds, live stream clock, mute/unmute or choose between PiP or fullscreen mode.
Notably, the extension supports HTML5 web videos. So you are sorted, whether you’re playing YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo, Twitch, Dropbox, or other platforms.
Key features
- Bundle of playback options
- Supports HTML5 web videos
- Supports PiP mode
Price: $4.99
24. Turn Off the Lights for Safari – Just you and the video
Extension category – Extensions tab
Some extensions help you concentrate on work or study; it’s only fair that an extension should help you make the most of your video-watching time. And this one is precisely that!
It instantly focuses on the HTML5 video player and darkens/fades out everything else for a cinema-style watching experience. And since it supports HTML5, it works for all major websites.
Key features
- Easy to use
- Instant action
- Supports all major websites
- Free to use.
Price: Free
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Now, aren’t these extensions a gem? These were some of the best Safari extensions for the iPhone that we found useful. Let us know which ones you like the most in the comments below. Or recommend any that we missed out on!
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