Credits and Acknowledgments

• Third-party software
  • AdGuard for Windows
  • AdGuard for Mac
  • AdGuard for Android
  • AdGuard for iOS
  • AdGuard AdBlocker extension
  • AdGuard for Safari
  • AdGuard Browser Assistant
  • AdGuard VPN extension
  • VPN Client
  • CoreLibs
  • DNS Libs
• Special thanks

Our dev team would like to thank the developers of this third-party software and our great beta testers (and other interested users) who helped AdGuard improve and grow.

Third-party software

This is the list of libraries and other resources that really helped us with AdGuard software development process.

AdGuard for Windows

• SQLLite database engine: https://sqlite.org
• ADO.NET provider for SQLite: https://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
• Json.NET — high-performance JSON framework for .NET: https://www.newtonsoft.com/json
• AvalonEdit — WPF-based text editor component: https://avalonedit.net

AdGuard for Mac

• Red Sweater Software, LLC for RSVerticallyCenteredTextFieldCell component: http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/148/what-a-difference-a-cell-makes
• Ilija Tovilo for ITProgressIndicator component: https://github.com/iluuu1994/ITProgressIndicator
• Sparkle Project for Sparkle.framework component: http://sparkle-project.org
• Robbie Hanson for GCDAsyncSocket component: https://github.com/robbiehanson/CocoaAsyncSocket
• Tony Million for Reachability component: https://github.com/tonymillion/Reachability
• August «Gus» Mueller for Fmdb component: https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb
• Stephen F. Booth for SFBCrashReporter project: https://github.com/sbooth/SFBCrashReporter
• Bartosz Janda for Acextract component: https://github.com/bartoszj/acextract
• FLOPageViewController https://github.com/floschliep/FLOPageViewController

AdGuard for Android

• Logback-android by Tony19: https://tony19.github.io/logback-android
• Otto by Square: http://square.github.io/otto
• RootTools Library by Stericson: https://github.com/Stericson/RootTools
• MaterialDateRangePicker by Supratim Chakraborty: https://github.com/borax12/MaterialDateRangePicker
• HelloCharts by Leszek Wach: https://github.com/lecho/hellocharts-android

AdGuard for iOS

• Reachability component by Tony Million: https://github.com/tonymillion/Reachability
• Fmdb component by August «Gus» Mueller: https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb
• NSStringPunycodeAdditions component by Nate Weaver: https://github.com/Wevah/Punycode-Cocoa
• Minizip-ng library by Nathan Moinvaziri: https://github.com/zlib-ng/minizip-ng
• Lottie for iOS library by Brandon Withrow: https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-ios

AdGuard AdBlocker extension

• moment: https://github.com/moment/moment
• simply-deferred: https://github.com/sudhirj/simply-deferred
• SHA256: https://github.com/AndersLindman/SHA256
• D3: https://github.com/d3/d3
• c3: https://github.com/c3js/c3
• nanobar: https://github.com/jacoborus/nanobar
• crypto-js: https://github.com/brix/crypto-js
• ace: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace

AdGuard for Safari Application

• ace: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace
• adm-zip: https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip
• config: https://github.com/lorenwest/node-config
• electron-debug: https://github.com/sindresorhus/electron-debug
• electron-log: https://github.com/megahertz/electron-log
• electron-remote: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-remote
• electron-simple-updater: https://github.com/megahertz/electron-simple-updater
• electron-store: https://github.com/sindresorhus/electron-store
• electron-updater: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder
• i18n: https://github.com/mashpie/i18n-node
• request-promise: https://github.com/request/request-promise
• xmlhttprequest: https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest
• axios: https://github.com/axios/axios
• devtron: https://github.com/electron-userland/devtron
• electron: https://github.com/electron/electron
• electron-osx-sign: https://github.com/electron/electron-osx-sign
• electron-rebuild: https://github.com/electron/electron-rebuild
• find-in-files: https://github.com/kaesetoast/find-in-files
• gulp: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp
• gulp-hash-creator: https://github.com/wahaha2012/gulp-hash-creator
• request: https://github.com/request/request
• require-dir: https://github.com/aseemk/requireDir

AdGuard Browser Assistant

• React: https://github.com/facebook/react
• webextension-polyfill: https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill
• react-intl: https://github.com/formatjs/formatjs/tree/main/packages/react-intl
• mobx: https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx
• mobx-react: https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx-react
• lodash: https://github.com/lodash/lodash
• nanoid: https://github.com/ai/nanoid
• react-modal: https://github.com/reactjs/react-modal
• classnames: https://github.com/JedWatson/classnames
• babel: https://github.com/babel/babel
• axios: https://github.com/axios/axios
• crx: https://github.com/oncletom/crx
• eslint: https://github.com/eslint/eslint
• jest: https://github.com/facebook/jest
• postcss: https://github.com/postcss/postcss
• web-ext: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext
• webpack: https://github.com/webpack/webpack

AdGuard VPN Extension

• babel: https://github.com/babel/babel
• crypto-js: https://github.com/brix/crypto-js
• geolib: https://github.com/manuelbieh/geolib
• ipaddr.js: https://github.com/whitequark/ipaddr.js
• lodash: https://github.com/lodash/lodash
• mobx: https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx
• nanoid: https://github.com/ai/nanoid
• protobufjs: https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js
• react: https://github.com/facebook/react
• react-lottie: https://github.com/chenqingspring/react-lottie
• webextension-polyfill: https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill
• xstate: https://github.com/davidkpiano/xstate
• axios: https://github.com/axios/axios
• crx: https://github.com/oncletom/crx
• eslint: https://github.com/eslint/eslint
• jest: https://github.com/facebook/jest
• postcss: https://github.com/postcss/postcss
• web-ext: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext
• webpack: https://github.com/webpack/webpack

VPN apps

• BoringSSL: https://github.com/google/boringssl/blob/master/LICENSE
• brotli: https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/master/LICENSE
• Detours: https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/blob/master/LICENSE.md
• FF/FFOS libs: https://github.com/stsaz/ff/blob/master/README.md
• Google test: https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/LICENSE
• http-parser: https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser/blob/master/LICENSE-MIT
• klib: https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib/blob/master/khash.h
• libevent: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/master/LICENSE
• lwIP: https://lwip.wikia.com/wiki/License
• nghttp2: https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/blob/master/COPYING
• Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/LICENSE
• zlib: https://zlib.net/zlib_license.html

CoreLibs

• BoringSSL: https://github.com/google/boringssl/blob/master/LICENSE
• brotli: https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/master/LICENSE
• Chromium: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/master/LICENSE
• Detours: https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/blob/master/LICENSE.md
• eDistantObject: https://github.com/google/eDistantObject/blob/master/LICENSE
• FF/FFOS libs by Simon Zolin: https://github.com/stsaz/ff/blob/master/README.md
• Google test: https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/LICENSE
• http-parser: https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser/blob/master/LICENSE-MIT
• jsmn: https://github.com/zserge/jsmn/blob/master/LICENSE
• klib: https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib/blob/master/khash.h
• libevent: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/master/LICENSE
• LibreSSL: https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/blob/master/src/lib/libssl/LICENSE
• lwIP: https://lwip.wikia.com/wiki/License
• miniz: https://github.com/richgel999/miniz/blob/master/LICENSE
• nghttp2: https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/blob/master/COPYING
• PCRE2: https://www.pcre.org/licence.txt
• SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
• zlib: https://zlib.net/zlib_license.html

DNS Libs

• BoringSSL: https://github.com/google/boringssl/blob/master/LICENSE
• cURL: https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/COPYING
• Detours: https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/blob/master/LICENSE.md
• fmt: https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/blob/master/LICENSE.rst
• Google test: https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/LICENSE
• klib: https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib/blob/master/khash.h
• ldns: https://github.com/NLnetLabs/ldns/blob/develop/LICENSE
• libevent: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/master/LICENSE
• libuv: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/blob/v1.x/LICENSE
• Magic Enum C++: https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum/blob/master/LICENSE
• nghttp2: https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/blob/master/COPYING
• PCRE2: https://www.pcre.org/licence.txt
• Sodium: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/LICENSE
• spdlog: https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/blob/v1.x/LICENSE

Special thanks

Also a huge thanks and gratitude to all beta testers and other engaged users, whose help in finding/eliminating all the bugs, translating AdGuard and moderating our communities was priceless. Special thanks to:

• ag_bug_finder - beta tester of AdGuard for Windows
• Aikatsui – active contributor to AdGuard Home
• Andy Kleinert (AndyKl) – translator and proofreader to German in Crowdin
• BigDargon – contributed the hostsVN project as a source to the list of AdGuard DNS
• Blaz - started as a filter contributor and now working at AdGuard
• Boo Berry - forum and Telegram group moderator
• buuuuuuu190 - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• clarke - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• dartrax - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• dja2k - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• Eduardo Addad de Oliveira (eduardoaddad) – translator and proofreader to Portuguese and Portuguese, Brazilian in Crowdin
• fabjazz - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• Görkem Emrah Güler (gork7777) – translator and proofreader to Turkish in Crowdin
• hanschke - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• iDjay – outstanding beta tester of AdGuard for iOS
• Imre Kristoffer Eilertsen (DandelionSprout) – maintainer of “Dandelion Sprout’s Nordic Filters” that are included in all AdGuard tools
• IONIL – translator and proofreader to Hebrew in Crowdin
• itabmedia - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• kirasam - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• krystian3w – very active filter contributor
• lancelot.moon – translator and proofreader to Chinese Traditional in Crowdin, beta tester
• Lord Ami - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• malware1 - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• milder - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• Nicos18 - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• Oizaro – translator and proofreader to Italian in Crowdin
• Oleg Chashko — very active beta tester of AdGuard for Safari
• Oskari Lavinto (olavinto) – translator and proofreader to Finnish in Crowdin
• ouzbed - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• PentagramTr – filter contributor, namely, he has brought a lot of new things to the Turkish filter
• Peter Hubinsky (hubak) – translator and proofreader to Slovak in Crowdin
• PiQuark6046 – filter contributor
• rickyoh - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• Ronin427 - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• Sanjay Nand - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• saturnotaku - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• steve1209 - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• streetwolf - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• superlex – helps us with scriptlets, filters, and AdGuard for Safari
• TayTayTheKiller - beta tester, active AdGuard Forum member
• TPS - bug finder, filter contributor
• Yuki2718 – actively contributes to AdGuard filters
• zznosar — active beta tester focused on AdGuard for iOS
• Сергей Зозуля (sviperz) — active member of our Telegram group, beta tester

We also want to thank the xda-developers users. Thank you for your much helpful feedback!

We always appreciate comments from our users, especially constructive ones :) You can always contact us to share your thoughts about AdGuard, request new features, and submit bugs. Join our AdGuard Forum, Subreddit, Xda-developers Forum or visit our page on GitHub.