blocky
blocky is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Network Utilities & DNS category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in Go. It ships a Docker image. It has 7,068 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 7,068
- Forks
- 317
- Open issues
- 52
- Commits, last 12 months
- 317
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.35.0Sep 5, 2026
- Created
- Nov 6, 2019
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 317 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 317 |
| Latest release | v0.35.0 (Sep 5, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 41 |
| Open issues | 52 |
| Open pull requests | 12 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Nov 6, 2019 |
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About blocky
Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features (alternative to Pi-hole).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/0xERR0R/blocky.
Topics
- ad-blocker
- adblocker
- dns
- self-hosted
- golang
- selfhosted
- pihole
- dns-over-https
- dns-server
- parental-control
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Is blocky free and open source?
Yes. blocky is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run blocky with Docker?
Yes. blocky provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to blocky?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to blocky include Pi-hole, AdGuard Home and MyIP.
Is blocky actively maintained?
The most recent commit to blocky was on Oct 26, 2026 with 317 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.35.0, published Sep 5, 2026. It had 52 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.