Seems like Lockdown is now owned by “Celestian Golden Apps“ according to the iOS app store. I’m just wondering is there’s an alternative that’s more reputable for iOS or is Lockdown still a safe app to use? Thank you 
I’m unclear on whether it’s more a VPN or more of a content blocker.
Proton, IVPN and Mullvad are currently recommended VPN’s on Privacy Guides.
Windscribe isn’t currently recommended on Privacy Guides, but has a good reputation among privacy communities.
Proton and Windscribe are the only ones I’ve mentioned with free tiers.
If you’re using it for content blocking.
DNS level blockers like NextDNS or Control-D will mimic most of the type of blocking functionality Lockdowns seems to advertise. Most of the VPN’s will have similar block lists as a paid feature,
Adguard or the recently released uBlock Origin Lite can add additional blocking in the browser itself.
Brave browser’s built in ad blocker also makes it a useful recomendation depending on how you use the phone.
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Thanks for the response and recommendations
It was primarily a content blocker for iPhone, then the VPN subscription came later, I mostly used it for blocking ads from other apps, but now it’s not as good. So it’s kinda sad what happened to Lockdown after being bought 
Adguard app does mostly everything Lockdown does, except you can’t customize the filters as easily, it also blocks YouTube ads via the safari extension and it’s already recommended on that section on privacyguides.
Wipr has beta support for iOS 26 will have network level traffic filtering for all apps
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