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Acrylic DNS Proxy vs dnscrypt-proxy: catalog facts
Acrylic DNS Proxy	dnscrypt-proxy
Free Free and released as open source.	Free Free and open source under the ISC licence.
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Hosts file with wildcard and regular expression support Caching speeds up repeated name lookups	DNS-over-HTTPS, DNSCrypt, Anonymized DNS and Oblivious DoH in one proxy Hides your address through Tor, SOCKS proxies or relays
Windows only Configured through text files rather than a graphical interface	Configured by editing a TOML file; there is no interface Running it on one machine protects only that machine
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: ISC
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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