Frequently Asked Questions

It combines traceroute and ping into one app: for a target hostname or IP, it discovers each network hop and continuously pings it, showing live latency, jitter, and packet loss per hop. You can run several of these at once in tabs, a split view, or a 4-flow grid.

Same underlying technique, different workflow. PingRoute gives you live charts, sortable hop tables, a saved target directory, side-by-side comparison of multiple targets, and export to CSV/JSON/ASCII — without juggling terminal tabs.

Ping and traceroute traditionally need raw socket access, which can require elevated privileges depending on platform. PingRoute uses sandboxed, platform-appropriate probing (see the Privacy section below) rather than shelling out to system binaries where possible.

No. There's no analytics SDK, no crash reporting service, and no account system. Probing requests go directly from your device to the hosts you type in — never to a PingRoute-operated server, because none exists.

Locally on your device. Saved targets, favorites, ping history, and settings never leave your machine unless you explicitly export them.

Yes, the full source is on GitHub under the LGPL-2.1 license. You can read exactly what it does rather than take our word for it.

Up to four simultaneously in the 4-Flow Grid view, or two side by side in Split view. You can also keep an unlimited number of flows open as tabs and switch between them.

Yes — as an MTR-style ASCII report, CSV for spreadsheets, or structured JSON for automated pipelines. You can also capture and share a snapshot of any flow directly from the toolbar.

Click any hop number in the table to open a panel with that hop's full metric breakdown — jitter, latency, min/max, domain name, packets sent/received — plus a dedicated trend chart for just that hop.

macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. Windows users can install directly from the Microsoft Store; other platforms currently require building from source.

Yes — see the Download page for the direct link. It's the easiest way to install on Windows with automatic updates.

The Flutter SDK (3.8.0+) plus your platform's native toolchain: Xcode on macOS, Visual Studio 2022 with C++ workload on Windows, or clang/cmake/ninja-build/libgtk-3-dev on Linux. Full steps are on the Download page.

Use the Report Bug page, which opens a pre-filled GitHub issue, or file one directly on GitHub.

Yes — see the Community page for ways to contribute, whether that's code, docs, testing, or just filing well-written issues.

GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 (LGPL-2.1). See the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy pages for details.