nextdns VS AdAway

Compare nextdns vs AdAway and see what are their differences.

AdAway

AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android. (by AdAway)
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nextdns AdAway
973 201
2,917 6,507
3.4% 2.4%
7.3 8.1
14 days ago 1 day ago
Go C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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nextdns

Posts with mentions or reviews of nextdns. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.

AdAway

Posts with mentions or reviews of AdAway. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nextdns and AdAway you can also consider the following projects:

AdGuardHome - Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

Magisk-Ad-Blocking-Module - Magisk module to block ads on android

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.

Magisk - The Magic Mask for Android

blahdns - A small hobby ads block dns project with doh, dot, dnscrypt support.

LSPosed - LSPosed Framework

dnscrypt-proxy - dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.

dns66 - DNS-based Host Blocker (and lightweight ad blocker) for Android

Unbound - Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.