SmartGuard
Our SmartGuard service provides you the opportunity to block unwanted content, domains and services. You can make individual configurations for different devices and thus determine which content should be available on which device.
Security
Surf the Internet more safely by blocking malicious domains.
Malware protection
Phishing protection
Protection against cryptojacking
Child protection
Protect your children and block inappropriate and adult-only content.
Porn
Gambling
SafeSearch
Privacy
Block domains that track your surfing behavior on the Internet.
Ads
Tracker
Telemetry
Devices
Use SmartGuard on all your devices and on a broad variety of platforms.
Android
iOS
Windows
macOS
Linux
Chrome
Firefox
Opera
Edge
Brave
Vivaldi
Router
and more...
Individual configuration
SmartGuard offers you the opportunity to add different devices in order to configure each individually or to define policies which could be used for multiple devices. We offer you a simple and smart way to flexibly adjust the requirements of your different devices.
Simple setup
The setup of our SmartGuard service for your devices is simple and works on most devices without installing additional software. Our setup wizard will help you to set up your devices to use SmartGuard in just a few steps.
Statistics
On the dashboard we offer you various statistics about your configured devices and their requests. Due to that you can track how many requests your devices are making, what exactly is being requested and how many of these requests have been blocked following the filters or policies you have set.
Log
In the log you can see every DNS request from your devices and get a detailed overview of which domains are requested by which device and which of these requests were blocked by SmartGuard and why.
Filter
You can use different filters to adjust which data are displayed in the dashboard, e. g. for which period and which devices. This gives you a perfect overview of what requests your devices are making.
Privacy
The requested domains of your devices are sensitive information. For this reason, you can set generally or per device whether your requests should be saved and with what level of detail.
More features
Services
Block individually selected services and applications or exclude them from the blockade.
Custom Filters
Create your own lists of domains which should always be blocked or always be allowed.
Rewrite Lists
Create your own rewrite rules for domains.
Schedules
Configure time periods in which your configured filters should be active.
SafeSearch
Enable SafeSearch for a child-friendly Google as well as other search engines and YouTube.
How does SmartGuard work?
What is DNS?
In a nutshell, DNS (Domain Name System) is a worldwide system that is used to translate domains into IP addresses or other information. For example, if we want to visit a website, we use a domain such as www.smartguard.io, because we can remember this easier than the associated IP address 159.69.114.130. However, from a technical point of view, this IP address is required to establish a connection to the server. DNS servers are responsible for this translation of the domain from which systems and applications can request the IP for any domain.
How is content blocked?
SmartGuard blocks content by not returning a valid response for domains that are queried from our DNS servers and belong to an active filter. As a result, a connection to the required servers cannot be established and the content cannot be loaded.
DynDNS
In addition to SmartGuard, we offer you a free DynDNS service. This is independent of SmartGuard, but offers you the option of configuring a fixed domain for your devices and accessing them via the Internet. Our DynDNS service can be used indefinitely with any plan and without an expiry time.
IPv4 and IPv6
Our DynDNS service supports IPv4 and IPv6. You can decide for yourself whether you would like to activate DynDNS for one or both IP versions.
DNS records
In addition, you can configure additional DNS records such as MX or TXT records for your domain, or you can also store a fixed IP for A and AAAA records yourself.
Subdomains
You can create up to 50 subdomains for each of your domains. You can configure these subdomains individually or adopt the DynDNS configuration of the main domain.
Our DNS servers
Our DNS servers are distributed globally to guarantee a highly available and low-latency service. Additionally, they are also state-of-the-art and offer secure and encrypted DNS.
DoH and DoT
By using DoH and DoT all your requests are encrypted which is not the case when using classic DNS. Therefore, your privacy and security on the Internet will be increased.
DNSSEC
DNSSEC verifies DNS responses to ensure their authenticity and integrity. This provides extra security and protects you from attacks like DNS spoofing.
QNAME minimization
With QNAME minimization, the transmitted data are minimized for recursive DNS resolution in order to pass on as little information as possible about your DNS requests to third parties.
Our DNS service is developed and operated entirely in Germany. Apart from our DNS servers, which are distributed around the globe and ensure worldwide availability of our service with low latency, our entire infrastructure is located within the EU in Germany and Finland. Security and data protection play a major role for us. Therefore, we use the data centers of a German hosting provider for our infrastructure, which is ISO 27001-certified. Your highly sensitive information, the statistics and the log of your DNS requests are stored exclusively in Germany.
Pricing & Plans
We offer you fair prices and full flexibility. Test all our Pro features during the first 14 days free of charge! Simply sign up, confirm your email address and get started. You do not need to deposit any payment information or immediately choose a plan when registering.
Plan change
You can change your plan at any time and with immediate effect. Even if some of your settings no longer fit your new plan, they will still be saved so that you could continue to use them later.
Billing
If you change your plan there are no additional costs thanks to our per second billing. You always just pay the prorated dues of the pricing model for the period of time in which it was active.
Cancellation
You can cancel your account at any time and with immediate effect. From then on, you will neither be charged for rest of the month nor any further costs.
| SmartGuard |
| Devices |
| Policies |
| Custom Filters |
| Rewrite Lists |
| Custom block page |
| Schedules |
| Dashboard |
| Statistics |
| Log |
| DynDNS |
| Domains |
| Subdomains |
Free beta
In the current phase of our beta, you can use SmartGuard Pro indefinitely and in full for free.
Your opinion is important to us! Give us your feedback on social media. 
