PingDoctor Alternatives

PingDoctor is described as 'Playing a game and lagging? Video streams constantly buffering? Poor video conferencing performance? Find out what's going on with PingDoctor' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to PingDoctor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Homebrew apps. The best PingDoctor alternative is Tracebar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PingDoctor are PingPlotter, mtr, SmokePing and Ping Tracer.

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  1. Tracebar icon
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    TraceBar puts a live traceroute in your macOS menubar. It continuously monitors the network path to any host, showing every hop’s latency, packet loss, and route changes in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
     
  2. PingPlotter icon
     31 likes

    PingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier.

    39 PingPlotter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  3. mtr icon
     24 likes

    mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

    38 mtr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. SmokePing icon
     10 likes

    SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network...

    31 SmokePing alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Ping Tracer icon
     14 likes

    Ping Tracer continuously pings each network host between your computer and a given destination, helping visually identify the source of connectivity problems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6.  2 likes

    Ping, but with a graph.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Chocolatey
    • Alpine Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Fedora
    • Rust
    • Docker
    • Termux
     
  7. Trippy icon
     3 likes

    Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.

    38 Trippy alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Homebrew
     
  8. WinMTR icon
     16 likes

    Free Network Diagnostic Tool. WinMTR is an equivalent of mtr for Windows.

    36 WinMTR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  9. Multiping icon
     5 likes

    MultiPing is an application built for monitoring one or more TCP/IP hosts, while providing detailed historical information about the collection period. Using the proven and powerful PingPlotter engine technology, MultiPing allows you to monitor numerous targets simultaneously...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. CloudView NMS icon
     3 likes

    CloudView is a standards-based network management and monitoring system (NMS). It can auto-discover, monitor and perform many functions with any vendor SNMP or TCP/IP devices. It provides consistent geographical view of your whole network (thousands of IP nodes and hundreds...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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