TinyProxy Alternatives

TinyProxy is described as 'Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying' and is a Proxy Service in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to TinyProxy for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best TinyProxy alternative is AdGuard, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TinyProxy are Fossorial Pangolin, Træfik Proxy, Nginx Proxy Manager and Squid.

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  1. AdGuard icon

    AdGuard

     274 likes

    Ad-blocking solution eliminating intrusive ads and preventing tracking, with malware protection. Filters pop-ups, banners, and more for clean browsing. Works in the background for ad-free surfing, protects data privacy with Spyware filter, and controls ad display in apps.

    121 AdGuard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Yandex Browser
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Snapcraft
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Android TV
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    Comments about AdGuard as an Alternative to TinyProxy
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    it is an ad blocking program not something made for forwarding websites like tinyproxy.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    it is an ad blocking program not something made for forwarding websites like tinyproxy.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. AdGuard is a legitimate TinyProxy alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • AdGuard is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to TinyProxy.

    • AdGuard is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to TinyProxy.

    • AdGuard is Freemium and Open SourceTinyProxy is Free and Open Source
    • AdGuard is Privacy focused and LightweightTinyProxy is not according to our users
  2. Fossorial Pangolin icon

    Fossorial Pangolin

     8 likes

    Pangolin is an open-source, identity-based remote access platform built on WireGuard that enables secure, seamless connectivity to private and public resources.

    11 Fossorial Pangolin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Online
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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    • Fossorial Pangolin is the most popular Web-based, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to TinyProxy.

    • Fossorial Pangolin is Free and Open SourceTinyProxy is also Free and Open Source
    • Fossorial Pangolin is Privacy focusedTinyProxy is not according to our users
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    AdGuard

    Ad-blocking solution eliminating intrusive ads and preventing tracking, with malware protection. Filters pop-ups, banners, and more for clean browsing. Works in the background for ad-free surfing, protects data privacy with Spywa...

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  6. Nginx Proxy Manager icon

    Nginx Proxy Manager

     19 likes

    This project comes as a pre-built docker image that enables you to easily forward to your websites running at home or otherwise, including free SSL, without having to know too much about Nginx or Letsencrypt.

    8 Nginx Proxy Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Squid icon

    Squid

     59 likes

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

    24 Squid alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  8. Haproxy icon

    Haproxy

     18 likes

    HAProxy is free, open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers.

    32 Haproxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. Proxomitron icon

    Proxomitron

     32 likes

    For those who have not yet been introduced, meet the Proxomitron: a free, highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Polipo icon

    Polipo

     25 likes

    A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server). Polipo can be used in place of ad-filtering, privacy-enhancing proxies such as Junkbuster, Privoxy or WWWOFFLE. As Polipo has much more refined HTTP support, it doesnt impose the speed tax usually...

    19 Polipo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Configuration Page
     
  13. Varnish icon

    Varnish

     24 likes

    Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    dnsmasq

     13 likes

    Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS.

    21 dnsmasq alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Proximodo

     8 likes

    Proximodo is a loopback proxy server, seemingly a fork of proxomitron though likely abandonware. Unlike Proxomitron its developer is not existentially challenged. Additionally Proximodo can use Proxomitron filters. Unfortunately it does not support SSL connections.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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