See where your data travels on an interactive map with hop-by-hop latency, country flags, and geographic route visualization.
Download Free on the App StoreTraceroute, MTR, and all 19 tools are free. No ads, no account required.
PingKit performs a genuine ICMP-based traceroute directly from your iPhone. It sends packets with incrementing time-to-live (TTL) values, causing each router along the path to reveal itself. Unlike web-based traceroute tools that run from a remote server, PingKit traces the actual route from your device on your network, showing you exactly what your traffic experiences.
Every hop is plotted on a full map with connecting lines showing your data's journey. Zoom and pan to explore the route from your device to the destination across cities and continents.
See IP address, hostname, round-trip latency, and country flag for each hop. Identify exactly where delays are introduced along the path.
Discover where your traffic actually goes. Data from London to Manchester might route through Amsterdam. PingKit shows the real geographic path, not what you would assume.
Switch to MTR mode for continuous monitoring of every hop. Track latency trends and packet loss over time to catch intermittent routing problems that a single traceroute would miss.
Your speed test looks fine, but a particular website or game server feels slow. A traceroute reveals whether your traffic is taking a detour — routing through a distant city or congested exchange point instead of a direct path. Once you know where the delay is, you know whether it is something your ISP can fix or an upstream routing issue beyond their control.
If latency spikes at your ISP's first few hops, the problem is on their network. If it spikes at a peering point where your ISP hands traffic to another network, it may be a capacity issue between providers. PingKit's visual map makes these handoff points obvious — you can literally see where your data crosses from one network to another.
Content delivery networks serve data from edge servers near you. A traceroute shows whether you are actually hitting a nearby CDN node or being routed to one far away. If a streaming service feels slow despite good bandwidth, a traceroute to the CDN hostname might reveal your ISP is routing you to a distant server when a closer one exists.
Traceroute makes the invisible internet visible. Watch your data hop from your router to your ISP, across undersea cables, through internet exchange points, and into a data center. It is a powerful way to understand how the internet actually works, not just as an abstraction but as a physical network of connected routers spanning the globe.
PingKit's traceroute is just the starting point. If you spot a problematic hop, switch to MTR to monitor it continuously and confirm whether the issue is persistent or intermittent. Use the Ping tool to measure baseline latency to your destination. And if you suspect a broader network problem, Smart Diagnostics ties everything together with an automated analysis and plain-language recommendations.
Download PingKit free and see exactly where your data goes.
Download Free on the App StoreRequires iOS 17.0 or later.