Best Trace vs ServerBox
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.
ServerBox
Manage your Linux servers remotely with SSH and SFTP. Control Docker containers and utilize experimental snippet features. Ping your servers to check connectivity.
- SSH client
- SFTP client
- Docker/Podman management
- Snippet feature (experimental)
- Ping utility
- Open Source
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This project is completely OPEN SOURCE. You can click the "App Support" button near the score below to download other system versions or compile them by yourself. Support for major Linux distributions. Support SSH, SFTP, docker/podman management, snippet.(experimental feature) Support Ping.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ServerBox at 91% against Best Trace's 15%. ServerBox also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.6) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). 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.
ServerBox holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 90 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Best Trace's written reviews are positive against 91% of ServerBox's.
Best Trace ships an update monthly, ServerBox fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Trace | ServerBox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (21 ratings) | 4.9 (90 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | 91.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 90 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd. | 吐司工作室 |
Customer experience
Best Trace
ServerBox
In-app purchases
Best Trace
No in-app purchases
ServerBox
No in-app purchases
