Tracexy
Tracexy is a macOS network analysis app that helps users trace connection problems from an app or process down to the related sessions and packets.
What is Tracexy?
Tracexy is a native macOS network analysis app for investigating traffic captures and troubleshooting connection problems. It is designed for developers, network engineers, support teams, and technical users who need to move from a misbehaving app or process to the sessions and packets involved. Tracexy can capture live traffic from local interfaces or open saved PCAP and PCAPNG files, then organize the investigation around app-aware sessions instead of packet lists alone. Its workflow includes filtering and narrowing traffic, viewing timelines and I/O graphs, following conversations, inspecting decoded protocol layers, and reviewing raw packet bytes. The app also supports keeping work separated in projects and exporting capture data or reviewed evidence when sharing findings with others. Tracexy is published by Rockxy and targets macOS 14 or later.
Key features
- Capture live network traffic from local interfaces
- Open and investigate PCAP and PCAPNG trace files
- Group traffic by app, process, domain, IP address, and session
- Filter and narrow captures with protocol and scoped search tools
- Inspect decoded protocol layers, timing details, and raw packet bytes
- Follow TCP conversations and trace failures back to source evidence
- Organize investigations into separate projects and history views
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Tracexy is a legitimate network analysis utility for macOS. Because it works with live network traffic, it may require network-related access and can expose details about the connections, hosts, and data flows visible on your Mac during a capture. That level of access is normal for a packet inspection tool, but you should use it carefully on devices or networks that handle sensitive information and share exported traces only after reviewing what they contain.
Recommendation: Keep Tracexy if you use it for troubleshooting apps, services, or network connections on your Mac. If you no longer analyze traffic captures or investigate network issues, you can remove it like other user-installed apps; doing so may also remove saved projects, history, and related settings if you choose to clean up its support files.
Common paths
/Applications/Tracexy.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.amunx.tracexy.community
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/com.amunx.tracexy.community
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.amunx.tracexy.community.plist~/Library/Preferences/com.amunx.tracexy.community.project.*.plist
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.amunx.tracexy.community.spotlight~/Library/Application Scripts/com.amunx.tracexy.community.spotlight
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