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 Træfik Proxy, Nginx Proxy Manager, Fossorial Pangolin and Squid.

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  1. AdGuard icon
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    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

    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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    it is an ad blocking program not something made for forwarding websites like 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.
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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. Træfik Proxy icon
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    The Cloud Native Application Proxy Simplify networking complexity while designing, deploying, and operating applications.

    19 Træfik Proxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Docker Hub
     
    • Træfik Proxy is the most popular Linux alternative to TinyProxy.

    • Træfik Proxy is Free and Open SourceTinyProxy is also Free and Open Source
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    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

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Nginx Proxy Manager is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to TinyProxy.

    • Nginx Proxy Manager is Free and Open SourceTinyProxy is also Free and Open Source
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    Pangolin is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and access control, designed to securely expose private resources on distributed networks. Acting as a central hub, it connects isolated networks — even those behind restrictive firewalls — through encrypted...

    12 Fossorial Pangolin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Linux
     
  5. Squid icon
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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. Proxomitron icon
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    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.

    22 Proxomitron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Polipo icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Varnish icon
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    Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator.

    21 Varnish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Zoraxy icon
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    General purpose request (reverse) proxy and forwarding tool for low power devices. Now written in Go!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. dnsmasq icon
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    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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