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WhatRoute vs Trippy: catalog facts
WhatRoute	Trippy
Free Downloaded from the developer's site, which also has a donation page.	Free Free and open source under Apache 2.0.
macOS	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Traceroute with a geographic view of the route Ping, DNS and Whois in the same app	Shows loss and latency per hop, live, so you can locate where a problem starts ICMP, UDP and TCP tracing over IPv4 and IPv6
macOS only Geolocation depends on an external service	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
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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