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

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