Best Trace vs Network
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.
Network
This application simplifies network calculations with an easy-to-use IP and subnet calculator. It provides detailed subnet information for network management and planning.
- IP/Subnet calculation
- Detailed subnet information
- Easy-to-use interface
- Network management tool
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IP/Subnet Calculator - the easy way With this App you can calculate the subnetdetails
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Network at 5.0 against Best Trace's 1.6. Network also leads on iOS requirement (11.2 vs 16.6). Best Trace's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (21 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Network holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Trace has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Best Trace ships an update monthly, Network every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Trace | Network |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 11.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd. | Jonas Kohler |
Customer experience
Best Trace
Network
In-app purchases
Best Trace
No in-app purchases
Network
No in-app purchases
