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DuckyHelper in Nextdns

DuckyHelper sees Nextdns on your screen and, in early access, works in it with its own cursor to manage your DNS profiles, update allowlists and denylists, configure parental controls and privacy blocklists, review query logs, and check analytics. It's built to ask before it sends or pays, and explains or draws on Nextdns when you want to learn it.

Try asking
  • “List the profiles and create a profile”
  • “Update an allowlist in Nextdns”
  • “Show me how to create a profile”

Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud. Doing the work for you is early access on Mac.

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Profiles in NextdnsDone in 5sExample
List the profiles and create a profile
  1. Listed the profiles in Nextdns
  2. Created a profile

Done in Nextdns.

Nextdns
5s · 1 app
Done
Created a profilein Nextdns
Worked for 5s
Listed the profiles
Created a profile

Drawn from Nextdns's own actions · early access on Mac

WHAT TO ASK

Things you can ask it to do in Nextdns

Each one is something Nextdns itself lets you do, said the way you'd ask. Questions about your screen work today; having it do the job is early access on Mac.

Ask about it

Works today

It sees your screen, answers out loud and draws on it.

  • “Explain this blocklist to me”
  • “Where do I find the allowlists in Nextdns?”
  • “Show me how to create a profile”
  • “What does this button do?”
  • “Walk me through this screen”

Read and find

Early access

It opens Nextdns and looks things up for you.

  • List the profiles
  • Look up the parental control services
  • Look up the parental control categories
  • Look up an allowlist
  • Look up the DNS rewrites
  • Look up the analytics devices
  • Look up the analytics protocols
  • Look up the analytics query types
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  • Look up the analytics destinations
  • Look up the security TLDs
  • Look up the analytics blocking reasons
  • Look up the profile details
  • Look up an analytics IPs
  • Look up the logs
  • List the denylist domains
  • Look up an analytics DNSSEC
  • Look up an analytics encryption
  • List the security settings
  • Export the logs
  • Look up the privacy settings
  • Look up the parental control settings
  • Look up the profile settings
  • Look up the analytics domains
  • Look up the logging settings
  • Look up the block page settings
  • Look up the performance settings
  • Look up the analytics status
  • Look up the analytics IP versions

Write and send

Early access

It's built to ask before anything is sent or paid.

  • Update an allowlist
  • Add a privacy blocklist
  • Add a parental control service
  • Create a profile
  • Add an allowlist entry
  • Add a parental control category
  • Add a DNS rewrite rule
  • Update a denylist
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  • Add a privacy native tracker
  • Update a parental control service
  • Add a blocked TLD
  • Update a denylist entry
  • Update the privacy blocklists
  • Update an allowlist entry
  • Update a parental control category
  • Update the parental control services
  • Update the privacy native tracking services
  • Update the parental control categories
  • Update a linked IP
  • Update the security TLDs
  • Rename the configuration

Manage

Early access

It tidies up and changes things in Nextdns.

  • Delete a privacy blocklist
  • Delete a parental control service
  • Delete an allowlist entry
  • Delete a parental control category
  • Delete a DNS rewrite rule
  • Delete a privacy native tracker
  • Remove a blocked TLD
  • Add a denylist domain
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  • Clear the logs
  • Update the privacy settings
  • Update the parental control settings
  • Remove a denylist domain
  • Update the settings
  • Update the security settings
  • Update the block page settings
  • Update the performance settings
  • Delete the configuration

Why Use DuckyHelper?

Works in Nextdns like you do

  • Early access: it sees Nextdns on your screen and works in it with its own cursor, while you keep using yours
  • Nothing to set up: it works in Nextdns signed in as you
  • Finishes multi-step jobs across Nextdns and your other apps

Built to ask before it sends or pays

  • Built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything
  • Built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you
  • It listens and looks only while the pill is open

Shows you, not just tells you

  • Explains Nextdns out loud and draws right on your screen
  • Works it out with you on a blackboard when you want to learn it

Always there, in every app

  • Press one key in any app and ask out loud: fn on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux
  • Runs jobs on a schedule (early access)
  • For Mac, Windows and Linux

Want it in every app you use?

One account works in every app on your computer. Try it for 10 minutes, no card, then pick a plan.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

On your screen, the way a person at your computer would. Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask about what you see in Nextdns: it answers out loud and can draw on Nextdns to show you where things are. In early access on Mac it also works in Nextdns with its own cursor, signed in as you, while you keep using yours.

For example: “List the profiles and create a profile” and “Update an allowlist in Nextdns”. Or ask about what you see: “Show me how to create a profile”. Doing the work for you is in early access on Mac.

No. Open Nextdns and sign in yourself, the way you always do. DuckyHelper works in the window you have open, signed in as you. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you.

It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money.

Yes. Press one key and ask out loud. It answers out loud while you keep working, draws on your screen to show you where things are, or works it out with you on a blackboard.

Yes. DuckyHelper works in any app on your computer, so one job can move between Nextdns and the other apps and pages you use.

Doing the work for you is new and in early access on Mac. Asking out loud, drawing on your screen and the blackboard work today on Mac, Windows and Linux.

No. It listens and looks only while the pill is open. When the pill is closed, nothing is heard or seen.

No, there is no charge per app. Try DuckyHelper for 10 minutes with no card. Plus is $20 a month, $14 a month for your first 3 months. See pricing.

Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later), Windows and Linux. Download DuckyHelper.

No. DuckyHelper is made by MingLLM, Inc. and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nextdns. It works in Nextdns the same way you do, on your screen.

Try it in Nextdns.Press one key and ask.

It sees Nextdns, explains it out loud and does the work with you.Try it for 10 minutes, no card.

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Questions and jobs

Do anything

Ask it a question or hand it a job, in any app.

Doing jobs for you is in early access on Mac. Asking works on Mac, Windows and Linux.