Best Trace vs Network Kit
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 Kit
This utility app provides comprehensive network debugging tools. It allows users to view device network information and perform various tests like TCP, UDP, Ping, and DNS queries. An optional subscription removes advertisements.
- View IPv4/IPv6 and interface information
- TCP/UDP and Ping testing
- Traceroute functionality
- DNS query support
- Ad-free subscription option
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A network debugging tool App - Support viewing information IPv4, IPv6, interface of the current device - Support TCP, TCP6, UDP, UD6, Ping, Ping6, Traceroute, Traceroute6, DNS query Subscription Terms: 1. Products - Remove ads (Monthly), the price is ¥6/month - Remove ads (Quarterly), the price is ¥16/quarter - Remove ads (Annually), the price is ¥56/annual 2. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. 3. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period 4. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period,and identify the cost of the renewal 5. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase Privacy Policy: https://plumk.top/poivacy/network_kit_poivacy_cn.html Auto Renewal Agreement: https://plumk.top/apps/network_kit/agreement/auto_renew.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Network Kit at 4.8 against Best Trace's 1.6. Network Kit also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). Best Trace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Network Kit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Best Trace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Network Kit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Trace has 21 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Best Trace ships an update monthly, Network Kit every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and July 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Trace | Network Kit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (21 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd. | 铁柱 李 |
Customer experience
Best Trace
Network Kit
In-app purchases
Best Trace
No in-app purchases
Network Kit
- Remove ads (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Remove ads (Quarterly)$1.993 Months
- Remove ads (Annually)$7.991 Year
