Best Trace vs Ping & Trace Route
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Trace
Visualize detailed network path information to help diagnose and resolve network issues. It provides insights into your current device's network connection and offers a convenient widget for at-a-glance monitoring.
- Visual network path details
- Network problem resolution
- Current device connection info
- Home screen widget
- IP geolocation database
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****** The Industry-leading Visual Traceroute Tool ****** Best Trace is a visualization tool that can help network operators, internet companies's development and operations teams and technology enthusiasts to view network path's detail information, it also can help them resolve the needs that they want to fix the problems of the network. It is based on our(IPIP.net) own needs and customers, combined with our IP geolocation database, then we created it. We support viewing your current iOS device's network connection information and has a widget to help you see it at any time. IPIP.net focus on location-related data reduction and release, is committed to becoming the location datas more accuracy and precision. Our main products--IPIP.net function is for city-level geographic data marked based on BGP/ASN datas, that accuracy is much higher than other products. Our customers existed in all types of internet companies, most in the advertising, security, E-commerce, entertainment industry, as well as CDN, DNS, VPN, and other network productivity tools. Free users have a limit number of queries, please contact us for commercial license.
Ping & Trace Route
Test network connectivity and performance with simultaneous ping and traceroute tools. Analyze latency, packet loss, and network paths to local or remote servers. Save detailed reports for later review.
- Multiple simultaneous ping tests
- Multiple simultaneous traceroute tests
- Customizable ping parameters (timeout, packet size, count)
- Trace from any ISP or mobile data
- Save ping logs and traceroute reports
- Supports multiple languages
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◆◆◆◆◆ Ping & Traceroute ◆◆◆◆◆ ▶ Multiple PING at a time to any local or worldwide hosted server. ▶ Simultaneous ping to the server. ▶ Multiple TRACEROUTE at the same time. ◆◆ PING ◆◆ ▶ Send a ping to any IP Address or website host. ▶ Set timeout period to Ping. ▶ Set packet size to be sent. ▶ Set how many times ping to be sent. ▶ Ping more than one time to compare previous and current ping. ▶ Save whole ping log to phone storage. ◆◆ TRACEROUTE ◆◆ ▶ Add multiple websites or IP addresses to trace. ▶ Trace from any ISP or mobile data. ▶ Traceroute supports multiple traces to compare. ▶ Save whole Trace Report to phone storage. ▶▶ Supported languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese. ▶▶ Note: All the supported languages are machine translations. There are possibilities of mistakes in any language. If you found any type of mistake then please write to us at contact@loopbots.com and we will verify and resolve it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ping & Trace Route at 2.6 against Best Trace's 1.6. Ping & Trace Route also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). Best Trace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Ping & Trace Route sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Best Trace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ping & Trace Route holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 37 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of Best Trace's written reviews are positive against 4% of Ping & Trace Route's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Best Trace ships an update every 5 weeks, Ping & Trace Route every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Trace | Ping & Trace Route |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (21 ratings) | 2.6 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews — better | 4.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 37 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd. | Loopbots Technology |
Customer experience
Best Trace
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In-app purchases
Best Trace
No in-app purchases
Ping & Trace Route
- Remove Ads$99.00
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