SwitchHosts

Homepage: https://switchhosts.vercel.app

SwitchHosts is an App for managing hosts file, it is based on Tauri, React, Jotai, Mantine, etc.

Screenshot

Features

Manage system, local, remote, group, and folder hosts entries
Switch hosts quickly from the main window or system tray
Syntax highlighting for hosts files
Find and replace across hosts entries
Refresh remote hosts manually, on a schedule, or at startup
Import/export hosts data, including importing backups from a URL
Move entries to the trashcan and restore or delete them later
Preferences for write mode, proxy, update checks, launch at login, post-apply commands, and the local HTTP API

Install

Download

You can download the source code and build it yourself, or download the built version from following links:

SwitchHosts Download Page (GitHub release)

You can also install the built version using the package manager Chocolatey:

choco install switchhosts

Backup

SwitchHosts stores data at ~/.SwitchHosts (Or folder .SwitchHosts under the current user's home path on Windows). In the v5 data layout:

~/.SwitchHosts/manifest.json stores the hosts tree
~/.SwitchHosts/entries/ stores local and remote hosts content
~/.SwitchHosts/trashcan.json stores trashcan entries
~/.SwitchHosts/internal/config.json stores preferences
~/.SwitchHosts/internal/histories/ stores system hosts and command run history

For a complete manual backup, copy the whole ~/.SwitchHosts folder. The in-app export creates a hosts data backup JSON; it does not include preferences or histories.

Develop and build

Prerequisites

Node.js
Rust
Tauri system dependencies, see Tauri Prerequisites

Development

Run npm install to install dependencies
Run npm run tauri:dev to start the app in development mode

Build and package

Run npm run tauri:build to create a production build
The packaged files will be in ./src-tauri/target/release/bundle/

# development
npm run tauri:dev

# production build
npm run tauri:build

Copyright

SwitchHosts is a free and open source software, it is released under the Apache License.