Pi-hole VS AdAway

Compare Pi-hole 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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Pi-hole AdAway
2356 201
46,478 6,424
1.1% 2.4%
8.0 8.8
about 10 hours ago 26 days ago
Shell C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Pi-hole

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pi-hole. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-05.

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 Pi-hole and AdAway you can also consider the following projects:

Technitium DNS Server - Technitium DNS Server

blocky - Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features

AdGuardHome - Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

PowerDNS-Admin - A PowerDNS web interface with advanced features

bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.

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

pihole-regex - Custom regex filter list for use with Pi-hole.

unifios-utilities - A collection of enhancements for UnifiOS based devices

blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.

docker-nxfilter - :whale: Run NxFilter in Docker!

nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)

Webmin - Powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel