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DNSCloak is dnscrypt-proxy client for iPhone. Choose your own dnscrypt provider, manage your own black- and whitelist.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1...

Looks great, but it's suspicious that is free. What's their business model?

Free software is suspicious?

I cannot endorse the app but it is made by dnscrypt-proxy enthusiasts. Had been removed from AppStore and brought back thanks to support of German incubator

https://techcultivation.org/#overview

https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/issues/42#issueco...

https://github.com/s-s/dnscloak

That’s quite interesting. I’ve used DNS Cloak in the past, but I’ve never tried the blacklists or whitelists. How would one get started with it? I mean, from what sources would one populate it and how?

Go to advanced options. You can generate your own list and load as a file on iPhone, you can also set forwarding and cloaking.

But I think it is more practical for your personal fine tuning of DNS behavior. For larger lists it is easier to point to a DNS servers that already has some block lists on.

Personally I point to my personal doh/dnscrypt server which is refreshing blacklists twice a day with cron job.

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