Trippy

Combines traceroute and ping into one live interface showing loss and latency at every hop along a route.

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About Trippy

Trippy runs a continuous traceroute and displays every hop with its packet loss, best, worst and average latency, updating live. That makes it obvious where along the path a problem sits, rather than just telling you the far end is slow.

It supports ICMP, UDP and TCP tracing, IPv4 and IPv6, multiple simultaneous targets, DNS resolution with several resolvers, GeoIP lookups and an autonomous system lookup so you can see whose network each hop belongs to. It runs on Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows and is packaged by most package managers.

It needs elevated privileges for raw sockets, though the documentation covers running it without them.

Strengths

  • Shows loss and latency per hop, live, so you can locate where a problem starts
  • ICMP, UDP and TCP tracing over IPv4 and IPv6
  • GeoIP and autonomous system lookups identify whose network each hop is on
  • Runs on Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows with packages almost everywhere

Limitations

  • Needs elevated privileges for raw sockets by default
  • Many routers deprioritise or drop ICMP, so intermediate hops can look worse than they are
  • Terminal interface only
  • The last tagged release is from May 2025

Details

Pricing
FreeFree and open source under Apache 2.0.
License
Apache-2.0
Developer
fujiapple852
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
How it runs
Downloadable app
Account
Not required
Works offline
No
Best suited for
Working out which hop on a route is actually causing the problem
Categories
Network tools
Last verified
Added
Provenance
Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Network); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.

Alternatives to Trippy

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Software that can replace Trippy for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.

  • mtr

    Combines traceroute and ping into one continuously updating report.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOSLinuxCommand line

    mtr is the long-established GPL-2.0 tool combining traceroute and ping, with a report mode for support tickets, but it runs on macOS and Linux only and has no GeoIP lookups.

  • PingPlotter

    Visualizes latency and packet loss hop-by-hop to find where a connection breaks down.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    PingPlotter shows hop-by-hop latency and loss in a graphical timeline on Windows and macOS, but it is closed source and the free tier is limited compared with paid plans.

  • WinMTR Redux

    Inspect network paths with the WinMTR Redux desktop tool.

    FreeOpen sourceWindows

    WinMTR Redux is a GPL-2.0 Windows desktop tool for repeated path measurements with IPv6 support, replacing Trippy's terminal interface with a Windows-only graphical window.

Trippy as an alternative

Listings that name Trippy as an alternative.

  • gping

    Ping with a live graph, so you can see latency spikes and packet loss instead of reading a column of numbers.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    Trippy shows live loss and latency at every hop with GeoIP and AS lookups, so it locates where a problem starts rather than only graphing one target.

  • iputils

    The Linux ping, tracepath, arping and related network utilities.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Trippy offers live per-hop loss and latency with ICMP, UDP and TCP tracing on Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows, instead of separate minimal tools.

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