Supporters

Last updated: 2026-08-27

dnsetter can be had for nothing, and the part it exists for — Private DNS off when the tunnel comes up, your setting back exactly when it goes away — is free and stays free. A utility whose one job is behind a paywall does not get installed twice.

So what keeps it maintained is not a lock. It is the people who pay for it when they did not have to.

This page is for them.

The list

Where the money goes

One person writes these apps. Most of what comes in goes on hosting — the servers behind the report screen, the supporters list and this site — and on the AI agents that help build and test them, which are metered by the hour and are the single largest line. The rest pays the Play developer account and the domain.

There are no ads in any of these apps, and there never will be. No analytics sold on, no “partner offers”, nothing bundled into an install. That is the trade this page is asking you to take part in: the money has to come from somewhere, and this is the only somewhere that does not cost you something you did not agree to.

What is free, and what dnsetter Pro is

All of these are built. This page said the last two were not until 2026-09-01, by which time both had shipped — the widget has its own receiver in the manifest and a resolver of your own is on the Settings screen. Nothing that works today moves behind the paywall — that is a rule for the whole family, not a promise made on this page: nothing is ever taken away, and a feature an install was already using stays with it for good.

How to get on the list

Two ways to support dnsetter, and both count the same here:

• dnsetter Pro on Google Play — monthly or yearly.
• A donation, any amount, through Ko-fi or card, Google Pay or PayPal. Nothing is unlocked in return: the build in the F-Droid repository has no paywall in it at all, so there is nothing left to unlock. It is a thank-you, not a purchase.

Then, in the app: Info → Support dnsetter → Your name in the list.

• If you subscribed on Play, there is nothing to type. Play never tells an app who bought, so the app presents the purchase it is holding and asks only what you want to be called.
• If you donated, you type the address you donated with, and then either tap the link in the mail that arrives or copy the six digits out of it. That is what lets the service recognise the donation as yours; the address is never shown to anybody.

Both halves — whether to appear, and under what name — are yours to change whenever you like, from the same screen. Turning it off takes one tap and the name is gone from here on the next load.

When a donation has to be matched by hand

Ko-fi and Stripe both tell the service who donated, so those are recognised on their own, usually before you have finished opening the screen.

Some donations cannot be: one sent from an address other than the one you type, or made some other way entirely. Nothing is wrong when that happens — the service simply never saw an address it could match to yours.

So if that is you and you want to be named, write to apps@gpm.name with the name you want, and I match it by hand. Everything after that — changing the name, taking it down — works from the app like anybody else’s.

What this page holds, and what it does not

The names people chose, and nothing else. No address, no amount, no date, no ordering that means anything. Not appearing is the default, and it stays the default: the list only ever grows because somebody went and asked for it to.