AdGuardHome

Privacy protection center for you and your devices

Free and open source, powerful network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server.

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AdGuard Home is a network-wide software for blocking ads and tracking. After you set it up, it'll cover ALL your home devices, and you don't need any client-side software for that.

It operates as a DNS server that re-routes tracking domains to a “black hole”, thus preventing your devices from connecting to those servers. It's based on software we use for our public AdGuard DNS servers, and both share a lot of code.

• Getting Started
  • Automated install (Linux/Unix/MacOS/FreeBSD/OpenBSD)
  • Alternative methods
  • Guides
  • API
• Comparing AdGuard Home to other solutions
  • How is this different from public AdGuard DNS servers?
  • How does AdGuard Home compare to Pi-Hole
  • How does AdGuard Home compare to traditional ad blockers
  • Known limitations
• How to build from source
  • Prerequisites
  • Building
• Contributing
  • Test unstable versions
  • Reporting issues
  • Help with translations
  • Other
• Projects that use AdGuard Home
• Acknowledgments
• Privacy

Getting Started

Automated install (Linux/Unix/MacOS/FreeBSD/OpenBSD)

To install with curl run the following command:

curl -s -S -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/master/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- -v

To install with wget run the following command:

wget --no-verbose -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/master/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- -v

To install with fetch run the following command:

fetch -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/master/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- -v

The script also accepts some options:

• -c <channel> to use specified channel;
• -r to reinstall AdGuard Home;
• -u to uninstall AdGuard Home;
• -v for verbose output.

Note that options -r and -u are mutually exclusive.

Alternative methods

Manual installation

Please read the Getting Started article on our Wiki to learn how to install AdGuard Home manually, and how to configure your devices to use it.

Docker

You can use our official Docker image on Docker Hub.

Snap Store

If you're running Linux, there's a secure and easy way to install AdGuard Home: get it from the Snap Store.

Guides

See our Wiki.

API

If you want to integrate with AdGuard Home, you can use our REST API. Alternatively, you can use this python client, which is used to build the AdGuard Home Hass.io Add-on.

Comparing AdGuard Home to other solutions

How is this different from public AdGuard DNS servers?

Running your own AdGuard Home server allows you to do much more than using a public DNS server. It's a completely different level. See for yourself:

• Choose what exactly the server blocks and permits.

• Monitor your network activity.

• Add your own custom filtering rules.

• Most importantly, it's your own server, and you are the only one who's in control.

How does AdGuard Home compare to Pi-Hole

At this point, AdGuard Home has a lot in common with Pi-Hole. Both block ads and trackers using the so-called “DNS sinkholing” method and both allow customizing what's blocked.

[!NOTE] We're not going to stop here. DNS sinkholing is not a bad starting point, but this is just the beginning.

AdGuard Home provides a lot of features out-of-the-box with no need to install and configure additional software. We want it to be simple to the point when even casual users can set it up with minimal effort.

[!NOTE] Some of the listed features can be added to Pi-Hole by installing additional software or by manually using SSH terminal and reconfiguring one of the utilities Pi-Hole consists of. However, in our opinion, this cannot be legitimately counted as a Pi-Hole's feature.