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Perfetto vs Tracy Profiler: catalog facts
Perfetto	Tracy Profiler
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause licence.
Windows, Linux, Android, Web, Command line	Windows
Trace viewer runs fully in the browser, even offline Built into Android since Android 9	Nanosecond-resolution real-time profiling Combines instrumentation and sampling
System profiling targets Linux and Android Aimed at engineers familiar with tracing concepts	Requires adding instrumentation to your code Aimed at programmers rather than general users
Downloadable app, Web application	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: BSD-3-Clause
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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