DNSNet

Charles Lombardo

About this app

DNSNet allows you to take more control over what internet traffic goes in and out of your device. You can download host files to block a set of known advertising or malicious host names and then create exemptions where you see fit.

It works by creating a lightweight VPN service that filters your internet traffic as you use your device. If you ever have trouble with connecting to a site or using an app, you can always exempt an app from filtering or create an exception for a specific host name.

Ratings and reviews

really useful. especially in apps that have 1 trillion ads a second. by far the best DNS app I've probably tried

To clarify for the dev: the problem isn't with the app itself, but rather the update process through the Play store. Every time a new update automatically installs through Play, the VPN gets disabled because the app has to be shut down to update. I disabled automatic updates, but now I have to make sure I don't accidentally tell it to update along with all the other updates, whereas with the F-Droid update process, I controlled all of that. It's still the same great app.

Please add support for Always-on VPN mode. This allows the app to keep running in the background. Whitelisting the app in battery saver does not really allow the app to work in the background indefinitely even on clean Android ROMs

What’s new

Fixed an issue that would break connectivity when not using DoH3
Updated translations