NSLookup vs Best Trace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NSLookup
This utility app retrieves detailed DNS information for any domain. It helps users find IP addresses, view name servers, and query specific DNS records like NS and CNAME. It can also force authoritative responses from main DNS servers.
- View domain DNS information
- Find target IP address
- See name server records
- Query NS and CNAME records
- Force authoritative responses
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NSLookup is an internet utility to get domain's DNS information. It will help you to find the target IP address of a domain or see what name servers are set on a specific domain. NSLookup for iPhone and iPad allows you to see the public DNS records of domains or sub domains. Then you may also query the NS and CNAME records. It's also possible to force it to get an authoritative response from main DNS server of the domain.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NSLookup at 3.0 against Best Trace's 1.6. NSLookup also leads on review sentiment (54% vs 15%) and iOS requirement (13.6 vs 16.6). Best Trace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume 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. NSLookup sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Best Trace asks for nothing beyond the download.
NSLookup holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of NSLookup's written reviews are positive against 15% of Best Trace's.
NSLookup ships an update every 9 months, Best Trace every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NSLookup | Best Trace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (31 ratings) — better | 1.6 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.9% of reviews — better | 15.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dayana Networks Ltd | Beijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
NSLookup
Best Trace
In-app purchases
NSLookup
- NSLookup Pro$1.99
Best Trace
No in-app purchases









