All comparisonsBlokada and NetCageAn ad and tracker blocker for Android and iOS, with a free open-source app and subscription editions for cloud blocking, family controls and VPN.Last checked 7 November 2026Check Blokada’s own pageYou can’t install NetCage todayIt has no store listing and no public download, so there’s no install link on this page and no price to quote. If you need something on your phone now, Blokada is there to install and NetCage isn’t.Better served by BlokadaChoose Blokada if what you want is ads and trackers blocked across every app and browser, with a family edition on top.Better served by NetCageChoose NetCage if you want a chosen app fully offline; NetCage closes the app's route and leaves ad lists and content filtering to others.Row by rowNetCage’s column comes from its code. Blokada’s comes from the linked pages. “Not stated” means we didn’t find it there, not that it’s missing.

Feature

Blokada

NetCage

Blocks one chosen app’s internet

Not stated on the pages we checked

Yes

Keeps blocking while the app is in the background

Not stated on the pages we checked

Yes

Needs no root

Yes blokada.org

Yes

Open source

Yes blokada.org

Shows ads

Not stated on the pages we checked

Partly. Promotions for the developer’s own apps only. No ad network.

In-app purchases

Not stated on the pages we checked

What it costs

Blokada 5 for Android: Free. Free blokada.org

Blokada 6, Blokada Family, Blokada Plus: No figure published. Quote only: subscription with a 7 day free trial; prices differ by country and store and are shown before you pay blokada.org

NetCage publishes no price.Where NetCage falls short

It takes Android’s one VPN slot. While NetCage is up you can’t run another VPN, and connecting one stops NetCage.

Apps that share an Android user ID are caged together, and there’s no way to separate them.

A caged app can still hand a link to a browser you haven’t caged, and that browser connects as normal.

It doesn’t work inside an app: no domain rules, no block lists, no traffic log. An app is caged or it isn’t.

Blokada is open source and NetCage isn’t, so you can read one app’s code and not the other’s.

Every limit, in the documentationComing from Blokada?The documentation has a page on how the two differ and which of its guides to read first. Read it on the documentation siteIf a row here is wrong, tell us and we’ll open the page again. Contact