Unified Hosts AutoUpdate Alternatives

Unified Hosts AutoUpdate is described as 'Quickly and easily install, uninstall, and set up automatic updates for any of Steven Black's unified hosts files' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Unified Hosts AutoUpdate for Windows, Mac, Linux, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The best Unified Hosts AutoUpdate alternative is HostsMan, which is free. Other great apps like Unified Hosts AutoUpdate are SwitchHosts, BeeThink IP Blocker, BlueLife Hosts Editor and Gas Mask.

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  1. HostsMan icon
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    HostsMan is a freeware hosts file manager and editor.

    Built-in hosts file updater Enable/Disable hosts file Built-in hosts editor Scan hosts for errors, duplicates and possible hijacks Hosts file backup manager Exclusion list.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • HostsMan is the most popular Windows alternative to Unified Hosts AutoUpdate.

    • HostsMan is the most popular free alternative to Unified Hosts AutoUpdate.

    • HostsMan is Free and ProprietaryUnified Hosts AutoUpdate is Free and Open Source
  2. SwitchHosts icon
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    SwitchHosts is an App for managing hosts file, it is based on Electron, React, UmiJS, Chakra UI, CodeMirror, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • SwitchHosts is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Unified Hosts AutoUpdate.

    • SwitchHosts is the most popular Open Source alternative to Unified Hosts AutoUpdate.

    • SwitchHosts is Free and Open SourceUnified Hosts AutoUpdate is also Free and Open Source
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    BeeThink IP Blocker is a Windows IP Blocking program which controls one computer interacts with other computers over the network. It can be successfully used on Windows server machines, in a production environment, to easily ban unwanted IP addresses or visitors by country with...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • BeeThink IP Blocker is the most popular commercial alternative to Unified Hosts AutoUpdate.

    • BeeThink IP Blocker is Paid and ProprietaryUnified Hosts AutoUpdate is Free and Open Source
    • BeeThink IP Blocker is Privacy focusedUnified Hosts AutoUpdate is not according to our users
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    BlueLife Hosts Editor is a portable freeware hosts-file editor and allows you to easily add/delete, block, and update domain names to your hosts file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Gas Mask icon
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    Gas Mask is simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X. It allows editing of host files and switching between them.

    12 Gas Mask alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Auto Hosts icon
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    Hosts file are a useful redundancy when coupled with ad blockers like uBlock Origin and uMatrix - while debugging or 'Temporarily Allow All on this Site' with Noscript can open you up to underlying attacks or privacy intrusions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. HostsXpert icon
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    HostsXpert is an ultra-groovy Hosts file Manager, Editor and Helper-outter. Below you'll find a list of HostsXpert's functions. Just a Simple word of caution - Hosts files are not to be taken lightly...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Hosts File Editor makes it easy to change your hosts file as well as archive multiple versions for easy retrieval.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. HostAdmin icon
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    Saving your time when you switch domain-IP mapping (Hosts file) between different environment. Awesome host file editor!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  10. Localghost icon
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    Localghost makes it easy to switch development host names to resolve to localhost with a status item (i.e. system tray) that adds / removes entries from /etc/hosts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. CWP Utilities icon
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    CWP Utilities automates the process of maintaining up-to-date and comprehensive hosts files, P2P block lists, and PAC filters, in order to block a variety of trackers, advertisements, malware and generally malicious activity, on a system-wide level.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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