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Tracy Profiler vs Perfetto: catalog facts
Tracy Profiler	Perfetto
Free Free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Windows	Windows, Linux, Android, Web, Command line
Nanosecond-resolution real-time profiling Combines instrumentation and sampling	Trace viewer runs fully in the browser, even offline Built into Android since Android 9
Requires adding instrumentation to your code Aimed at programmers rather than general users	System profiling targets Linux and Android Aimed at engineers familiar with tracing concepts
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Web application
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: Apache-2.0
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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