The short answer
Browser-only privacy tools only watch your browser. A game, a news app, or Instagram can still connect to tracking and ad infrastructure. Casper's Cloak filters tracking and ad domains at the network level, across every app on your phone, not just inside Safari or Chrome.
Why it feels like trackers everywhere you go
It can feel like the same sneaker ad follows you from a news app to a game to Instagram. iOS App Tracking Transparency only catches some cross-app tracking.
Browser-only ad blockers, including browser extensions and Safari content blockers, only see traffic that passes through the browser. A free game, a news app, or an embedded webview inside another app can still quietly connect to tracking and ad infrastructure, and a browser-only tool has no visibility into that connection at all.
How Casper's Cloak stops it
Casper's Cloak blocks trackers and threats system-wide, across every app — not just in a browser. Instead of inspecting what's on your screen, it filters at the network level: when any app on your iPhone, Mac, or Android device tries to reach a known ad or tracking domain, that connection is blocked before it resolves. That coverage applies the same way whether you're in Safari, a news app, a free game, Instagram, or a webview embedded inside another app.
What this actually changes for you
- One layer of protection, every app. You don't have to trust that each individual app respects your tracking preferences — the blocking happens at the network layer, underneath all of them.
- Works the same on iPhone, Android, and Mac. One subscription covers all three, so you're not piecing together a browser extension on your laptop and a different app-tracking setting on your phone.
- No per-app configuration. You're not hunting through settings for every app you install, trying to find a tracking toggle that may or may not exist.
What it doesn't do
This isn't a settings tweak you make once inside iOS — it's a different layer of protection that sits underneath every app, including ones that have no tracking controls of their own. It's also not a content blocker that only works in a browser tab; the point is that it keeps working after you close Safari.
If cross-app tracking is the thing that's been bothering you, that's the specific gap Casper's Cloak is built to close. You can see current plans at casperscloak.com/subscriptions.