Comparison

Nice Trace vs Best Trace

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

Head to head
About

Nice Trace

Monitor your network's performance with this advanced traceroute tool. It visualizes the path to any internet host, identifies bottlenecks in real-time, and provides detailed information about each network hop. Quickly diagnose connectivity issues and understand your network's behavior.

Highlights
  • Real-time path monitoring
  • Packet loss detection
  • Network bottleneck identification
  • Country of origin detection
  • WHOIS lookups
  • Trace results export
Features
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Keep your network under control with Nice Trace - the most advanced traceroute app for iOS. The tool traces the route to the host in the Internet using easy, user-friendly interface and animations. You will immediately get information about any possible bottlenecks and problems since Nice Trace never stops working. It continues to monitor the whole path to the network resource in real time and keeps you informed. The specially designed asynchronous algorithm lets Nice Trace quickly pass through problematic hops not hanging on them, thus increasing the speed. Now you can reach the destination host fast like never before. FEATURES - Real-time path monitoring with packet loss detection - Easily spot possible network bottlenecks - Country of origin detection of the network owner - Network range and AS number lookup - WHOIS hostnames, IP addresses, ASNs - E-mail trace results - Ultrafast asynchronous network I/O Displays hops information (when available): - IP address - Reverse hostname (PTR DNS record) - Autonomous system (AS) number - Country of the network owner - Average packets round trip time (RTT) - Counts of packets that were sent and received - Percentage of the packet loss - IP network range (in hop details) - Other hops IP addresses and hostnames (in hop details) DEMO VIDEOS http://j.mp/nicetrace_vids MORE GREAT APPS · Spyglass - augmented reality & GPS navigator · Scany - Wi-Fi/LAN network scanner

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.

Screenshots

Nice Trace4 screens
Best Trace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Nice Trace at 93% against Best Trace's 15%. Nice Trace also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.6) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.6). Best Trace's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Best Trace is free to download; Nice Trace costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nice Trace holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 53 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Nice Trace's written reviews are positive against 15% of Best Trace's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nice Trace ships an update every 3 months, Best Trace monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Nice Trace versus Best Trace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNice TraceBest Trace
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (53 ratings) — better1.6 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews93.1% of reviews — better15.4% of reviews
Number of ratings53 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPavel AhafonauBeijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Nice Trace

All ratings53 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews261 reviews
Positive93.1%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.0%

Best Trace

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

Bugs and requests

Nice Trace

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes after a few hops on some networks
  • Displays nonsensical packet loss stats
  • Misidentifies network locations

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add auto-trace feature
  • Implement landscape mode on iPad
  • Support IPv6 tracing
  • Allow configuring TCP/UDP/ICMP payloads
  • Provide option to copy/export trace results

Best Trace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Nice Trace

No in-app purchases

None

Best Trace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nice Trace free?
Nice Trace costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Best Trace free?
Best Trace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nice Trace or Best Trace?
Nice Trace is rated higher. Nice Trace averages 4.7 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while Best Trace averages 1.6 from 21 ratings.
Do Nice Trace or Best Trace have ads?
Neither Nice Trace nor Best Trace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nice Trace or Best Trace?
Nice Trace ships an update every 3 months, and Best Trace monthly. Most recently, Nice Trace was updated on September 24, 2026 and Best Trace on September 21, 2026.

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