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gping vs Trippy: catalog facts
gping	Trippy
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under Apache 2.0.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
A live graph makes latency spikes and loss obvious at a glance Graphs several hosts at once with custom colours for comparison	Shows loss and latency per hop, live, so you can locate where a problem starts ICMP, UDP and TCP tracing over IPv4 and IPv6
Needs a terminal that supports the drawing it does; output is not pipeable Raw sockets may require elevated privileges on some systems	Needs elevated privileges for raw sockets by default Many routers deprioritise or drop ICMP, so intermediate hops can look worse than they are
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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