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TraceBar for Mac

Continuous graphical traceroute monitoring for the menu bar.

By tracebar-app. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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TraceBar at a glance

Version
1.2.5
Released
18 April 2026
Download size
2.1 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
tracebar-app
GitHub stars
133

About TraceBar

an mtr-like traceroute utility that lives in your MacOS menubar

Screenshots

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How to install TraceBar on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for TraceBar and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.2.5 from tracebar-app's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to TraceBar show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: TraceBar-1.2.5.dmg (2.1 MB).

What is new in TraceBar 1.2.5

## What's Changed
* Add website and App Store links to README by @evilscheme in https://github.com/tracebar-app/tracebar/pull/32
* Reduce CPU and SwiftUI invalidations during probe rounds by @evilscheme in https://github.com/tracebar-app/tracebar/pull/34
* Improve probe accuracy and history-buffer sizing by @evilscheme in https://github.com/tracebar-app/tracebar/pull/35
* Handle empty and unresolvable target hosts by @evilscheme in https://github.com/tracebar-app/tracebar/pull/36

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/tracebar-app/tracebar/commits/1.2.5

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