Comparison

Best Trace vs IP Tools

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

IP Tools

Explore your network with detailed insights into IP addresses, geolocation, and connectivity. Understand your public IP, DNS servers, and Wi-Fi details. Discover information about any public IP worldwide, including its location, ISP, and network prefixes.

Highlights
  • Current connectivity status
  • Public IP geolocation
  • IPv4 information lookup
  • Network prefix details
  • ASN information
  • Visual Traceroute
  • Ping utility
Features
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IP Tools by BigDataCloud is a practical toolkit for checking IP addresses, networks, and internet routing information from your iPhone. Look up IPv4 and IPv6 address details, inspect ASN information, browse announced prefixes, check connectivity, resolve DNS records, ping hosts, and view estimated IP geolocation with confidence areas on the map. IP Address History can track how your public address changes over time, including IPv4 and IPv6, so you can understand connection changes while you move between Wi-Fi, mobile data, VPN, and other network paths. IP Tools can also help BigDataCloud improve IP geolocation quality by submitting optional anonymous location signals. The app is designed to report network and location observations about IP addresses, not personal profile information.

Screenshots

Best Trace4 screens
IP Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: IP Tools at 71% against Best Trace's 15%. IP Tools also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.6) and ratings volume (697 vs 21). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

IP Tools holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IP Tools has 697 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Best Trace's written reviews are positive against 71% of IP Tools's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Best Trace versus IP Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest TraceIP Tools
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (21 ratings)4.8 (697 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews71.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings21697 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBeijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd.BigDataCloud

Customer experience

Best Trace

All ratings21 ratings
Positive14.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative85.7%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive15.4%
Neutral11.5%
Negative73.1%

IP Tools

All ratings700 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Best Trace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

IP Tools

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Cannot type or pinpoint IP addresses
  • Unable to ping google.com
  • Maps showing incorrect locations
  • IPv4 mapper pinning inaccurate locations

Requested features

4 requests
  • Router setup and reboot functionality
  • Search function for IPv4 space by country
  • Better documentation and query explanations for novice users
  • Improved icon design

In-app purchases

None

Best Trace

No in-app purchases

None

IP Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Best Trace free?
Best Trace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IP Tools free?
IP Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Best Trace or IP Tools?
IP Tools is rated higher. Best Trace averages 1.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while IP Tools averages 4.8 from 697 ratings.
Do Best Trace or IP Tools have ads?
Neither Best Trace nor IP Tools shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Best Trace or IP Tools?
Best Trace ships an update monthly, and IP Tools monthly. Most recently, Best Trace was updated on October 12, 2026 and IP Tools on October 4, 2026.

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