Macworld mentioned AdGuard for iOS in a list of five 'best adblockers for iOS'. While the company's products have earned positive feedback in industry publications, a series of policies by Google and Apple app stores occurred in 2014 - 2018, which impeded user access to AdGuard's mobile applications. Serverīlocks advertisement and tracking domains.ĭoes not block advertisement and tracking domains, or any other DNS requests.īlocks websites with adult content, enforces safe search in search engines wherever possible, and blocks advertisement and tracking domains. AdGuard began testing DNS service back in 2016, and officially launched it in 2018. AdGuard DNS supports encryption technologies, including DNSCrypt, DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS, and DNS-over-QUIC.

AdGuard DNS ĪdGuard operates recursive name servers for public use. The application sets up a local VPN, which filters all traffic on the mobile device. It downloads filter list updates and asks browsers to enforce them via Content Blocker API.ĪdGuard has Windows and Mac versions, as well as native mobile versions for Android and iOS. AdGuard Content Blocker is an additional browser extension for browsers Yandex Browser and Samsung Internet, which uses Content Blocker API. The product blocks spyware and warns users of malicious websites. It is also able to handle anti- AdBlock scripts. The browser extension blocks video ads, interstitial ads, floating ads, pop-ups, banners, and text ads. It is similar to Pi-hole but offers some unique features, including out of the box support for DNS-over-HTTS. Features ĪdGuard Home acts as a recursive DNS resolver, which responds with an invalid address for domains that appear in its filter lists quests. In 2014 AdGuard Software Limited's products became available in Cyprus to where its headquarters were subsequently moved.

ĪdGuard Software Limited was founded in 2009 in Moscow. AdGuard is also available as a browser extension. AdGuard's DNS app supports Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. Developed by AdGuard Software Limited, AdGuard offers open source, free, and shareware products.

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