Comparison

Best Trace vs NetTools

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
Features
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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

NetTools

Diagnose network issues with a suite of powerful tools on your phone. Explore local and external networks, check server availability, and scan for devices. Features include ping, traceroute, port scanning, and DNS lookups.

Highlights
  • Network information
  • LAN explorer
  • IP range scanner
  • Ping and Traceroute
  • Port scanner
  • DNS records lookup
  • Server availability check
  • Wake On Lan
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Common tools for network diagnostics right in your pocket. This app allows to explore lan and external networks, check internet connection or servers availability with using your phone. The following tools are currently available: 1) Network information - displays external ip and detailed info about internet connection.. 2) LAN explorer - will find all devices in local network. 3) IP range scanner - search hosts by ip range, allows to dynamically check ports and filter hosts by opened ports. 4) Ping - easy way to check internet connection. 5) Traceroute - displays route to the host. 6) Port scanner - check ports in selected range, supports TCP and UDP protocols. 7) DNS records - find DNS records for selected domain. 8) Whois - displays information about domains owner. 9) Server check - checks availability of selected servers (supported methods: ping, tcp, http, https) 10) Wake On Lan - wake up machine by network. 11) TCP client - may be used for testing of servers those use text protocols (HTTP, whois, ...) 12) IP calculator App interface allows to use several tools in one moment, call tools from each other and also share result of their working or copy it to the clipboard. Every tool has multiple settings - IP scanner supports several modes. Ping and Traceroute can work with ICMP and UDP protocols. Also app allows to enter manually DNS servers those will be used by tools in the settings.

Screenshots

Best Trace4 screens
NetTools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: NetTools at 67% against Best Trace's 15%. NetTools also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.6). Best Trace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. NetTools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Best Trace asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NetTools holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 54 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Best Trace's written reviews are positive against 67% of NetTools's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Best Trace ships an update every 5 weeks, NetTools every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Best Trace versus NetTools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest TraceNetTools
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (21 ratings)4.9 (54 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2154 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBeijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd.Oleg Gutlyanskiy

Customer experience

Best Trace

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

NetTools

All ratings48 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Best Trace

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

NetTools

One-time1
  • Premium features$3.99

Questions

Is Best Trace free?
Best Trace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NetTools free?
NetTools is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Best Trace or NetTools?
NetTools is rated higher. Best Trace averages 1.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while NetTools averages 4.9 from 54 ratings.
Do Best Trace or NetTools have ads?
NetTools shows ads; Best Trace does not.
Which is updated more often, Best Trace or NetTools?
Best Trace ships an update every 5 weeks, and NetTools every 3 months. Most recently, Best Trace was updated on October 26, 2026 and NetTools on October 24, 2026.

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