Comparison

Tracer vs SigilTTY

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

Head to head
About

Tracer

Monitor all network requests your iPhone makes in real-time, locally on your device. Identify third-party services, inspect request details, and understand where your data is going without it ever leaving your phone.

Highlights
  • Real-time network request monitoring
  • Inspect headers, bodies, and timing
  • Identify third-party services
  • Visualize server locations on a globe
  • Local data processing for privacy
  • No account required
Features
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Ever wonder what your apps are actually doing? Tracer lets you watch every network request your iPhone makes in real time. See where your data goes, who’s receiving it, and exactly what’s being sent - all without your traffic ever leaving your device. WATCH TRAFFIC LIVE * Every request flies across a live 3D globe * Inspect headers, bodies, timing, status codes, and more * See exactly where each server lives SEE WHO’S REALLY BEHIND AN APP * Instantly identify analytics, ads, payments, crash reporting, AI, and other third-party services * See who’s hosting them: AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, and more PRIVATE BY DESIGN * Everything runs locally on your iPhone * Traffic is never uploaded * Your certificates are generated on-device and never leaves it * No account required BUILT FOR * App-curious who want to learn what apps are built with * Developers debugging APIs * QA teams testing apps on real devices * Privacy nerds who want receipts Setup takes just a few minutes. Install Tracer’s certificate, start a capture, and open any app. Your phone. Your traffic. Your business. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracer is free to use. Certain features require a paid subscription. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

SigilTTY

Features
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SigilTTY is a native AI terminal for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — an SSH client built for the era of coding agents. Attach to the agents already running on your own servers, see which ones are working and which are stuck, get pushed the moment one needs you, and answer out loud. Everything a terminal still has to do — shells, SFTP, tunnels, keys — is here too, synced across your devices through iCloud. To be clear about what this is: SigilTTY does not run the AI, and there is no chatbot inside it. Your machines run the agents, right where your code, your tools and your credentials already are. SigilTTY is the control room you carry. Built on a GPU-accelerated terminal (powered by Ghostty) and the battle-tested libssh2 engine, SigilTTY feels instant and looks sharp on every screen. YOUR AGENTS, WHEREVER YOU ARE • Attach to the AI coding agents that herdr manages on your servers — each one is an ordinary terminal tab with a live status dot • Agents mode gathers every agent on every server into one tree in the sidebar on iPad and Mac; on iPhone your agents get a tab of their own • Be told when an agent is blocked or done, even while SigilTTY is closed. Offline alerts are encrypted end-to-end on your own server; our open-source relay only ever sees ciphertext • Answer by voice in an agent session: bring your own transcription key — Volcengine, iFlytek, or any compatible speech-to-text endpoint. Audio goes only to the endpoint you configured, and the transcript is typed into the prompt for you to read — it never sends itself • Paste or drop files straight into the terminal — they upload over SFTP and the remote path is typed out for the agent to read • Agent features need the open-source herdr 0.8.0 or later on your server STILL A REAL TERMINAL • Native, GPU-accelerated rendering — smooth even under heavy output • Multiple sessions with tabs, plus full menu commands and shortcuts on Mac • Hundreds of Ghostty/iTerm2-compatible color themes, with dedicated CJK font selection • Command snippets you can send with a single tap CONNECT YOUR WAY • SSH with password or private-key authentication • Telnet for legacy devices and equipment • Serial console over USB on Mac • Jump hosts / bastion chains to reach private networks • Quick Connect for ad-hoc user@host sessions FILES & TUNNELS • Full SFTP file browser — upload, download, rename, delete • File preview: code with syntax highlighting, images, PDFs and documents with Quick Look • Transfers run in their own session and never block your terminal • ZMODEM: run sz or rz on the remote side, right in the terminal • Local (-L) and remote (-R) port forwarding • SSH agent forwarding — the app answers the agent protocol itself, with no extra setup SECURITY FIRST • Credentials live in the Keychain, never in plain text • Optional Face ID / Touch ID protection for private keys • Sign in with a hardware security key over USB-C or NFC — FIDO2/WebAuthn, tested with YubiKey. The private key never exists in software • Trust-on-first-use host key verification warns you the moment a server's identity changes • A remote host asking to read or write your clipboard has to ask you first • Key Handoff: hand a private key to another device over your local network, end-to-end encrypted and confirmed with a verification code — the key never leaves your LAN • No ads. No analytics. No tracking. SYNCS EVERYWHERE • Your servers, folders, snippets, keys, known hosts and agent records sync securely with iCloud • Start on your Mac, pick up on your iPhone • Interface in English and Simplified Chinese SigilTTY is free to download. Have feedback or a feature request? Reach us at support@sigiltty.com.

Screenshots

Tracer3 screens
SigilTTY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SigilTTY at none against Tracer's 3. SigilTTY also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17 vs 26.0). Tracer's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On price and ads 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. Tracer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. SigilTTY asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tracer ships an update daily, SigilTTY every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tracer versus SigilTTY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTracerSigilTTY
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB26 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperRyan Kotzebue超毅 王

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Tracer

Subscriptions2
  • Pro access$4.997 Days
  • Pro access7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro access$199.00
None

SigilTTY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tracer free?
Tracer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SigilTTY free?
SigilTTY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tracer or SigilTTY have ads?
Neither Tracer nor SigilTTY shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tracer or SigilTTY?
Tracer ships an update daily, and SigilTTY every 3 days. Most recently, Tracer was updated on September 30, 2026 and SigilTTY on September 29, 2026.

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