TraceBar for Mac
Continuous graphical traceroute monitoring for the menu bar.
By tracebar-app. Free and open source, MIT licence.
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
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How to install TraceBar on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for TraceBar and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.2.5 from tracebar-app's own GitHub release.
- 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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