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Acrylic DNS Proxy vs AdGuard Home: catalog facts
Acrylic DNS Proxy	AdGuard Home
Free Free and released as open source.	Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0. AdGuard also sells a hosted AdGuard DNS service…
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
Hosts file with wildcard and regular expression support Caching speeds up repeated name lookups	Acts as a DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-QUIC server itself One binary with a web interface, so installation is straightforward
Windows only Configured through text files rather than a graphical interface	Run by a company that also sells blocking products, so the free tier is marketing Over-blocking breaks sites, as with any DNS blocker
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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