Comparison

Best Trace vs My TracerRoute

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

My TracerRoute

This network diagnostic tool helps users check IPv4 route quality from their iPhone. It displays traceroute results in an MTR-style table, showing detailed information for each network hop. Analyze packet loss, latency, and other crucial network metrics.

Highlights
  • IPv4 route quality testing
  • MTR-style results table
  • Detailed hop information
  • Packet loss analysis
  • Latency metrics
Features
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My Traceroute is a focused network diagnostic tool for checking IPv4 route quality from your iPhone. It presents traceroute results in an MTR-style table so you can quickly see each hop, packet loss, sent count, last latency, average latency, best latency, worst latency, and standard deviation.

Screenshots

Best Trace4 screens
My TracerRoute2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: My TracerRoute at 5.0 against Best Trace's 1.6. My TracerRoute also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Best Trace's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (21 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

My TracerRoute 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Best Trace ships an update every 5 weeks, My TracerRoute every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Best Trace versus My TracerRoute: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest TraceMy TracerRoute
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (21 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBeijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd.SYNN Solution Company

In-app purchases

None

Best Trace

No in-app purchases

None

My TracerRoute

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Best Trace free?
Best Trace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My TracerRoute free?
My TracerRoute is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Best Trace or My TracerRoute?
My TracerRoute is rated higher. Best Trace averages 1.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while My TracerRoute averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Best Trace or My TracerRoute have ads?
My TracerRoute shows ads; Best Trace does not.
Which is updated more often, Best Trace or My TracerRoute?
Best Trace ships an update every 5 weeks, and My TracerRoute every 2 weeks. Most recently, Best Trace was updated on November 1, 2026 and My TracerRoute on November 9, 2026.

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