Tracy Profiler
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About
Tracy Profiler is ranked #5 of 22 in game profiling software on Inferse. It runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan.
Compared on game profiling software
- Free plan
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- CPU profiling
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- GPU profiling
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- Memory profiling
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- Frame-time analysis
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- Remote profiling
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- Supported platforms
- Windows, Linux, Android, FreeBSD, WSL, macOS, iOS, QNX; prebuilt profiler binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linuxgithub.com
Facts
- Purpose
- Tracy is a real-time, nanosecond-resolution remote telemetry, hybrid frame and sampling profiler for games and other applications.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Other captured data
- It can profile memory allocations, locks and context switches, and attribute screenshots to captured frames.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Third-party bindings
- The project points to third-party bindings for Rust, Zig, C#, OCaml and Odin, among other languages.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Distribution
- GitHub releases include the user documentation as tracy.pdf and compiled Windows x64 binaries.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Trace automation
- The 0.14 release added a capture daemon that discovers Tracy clients over UDP and captures each to a separate file, plus a tool to merge multi-process traces.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Merge limitation
- The release notes say trace merging preserves zones, messages and plots, while GPU zones, memory events and call stacks are lost.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- AI assistant
- The release notes describe an assistant integration that can run locally and analyze captured data; they state local setup is required and that running it locally keeps activity private.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- License
- Tracy Profiler is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Maintainer
- The license names Bartosz Taudul as the copyright holder for 2017–2026.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Security
- The 0.14.1 release notes say string-length encoding in the protocol was hardened.github.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Other telemetry
- It can profile memory allocations, locks and context switches, and attribute screenshots to captured frames.github.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Remote capture
- The project describes Tracy as a remote telemetry profiler.github.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Automated capture
- The 0.14 release added a capture daemon that discovers Tracy clients over UDP and captures each to its own file.github.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Trace merging
- The 0.14 release added a tool to combine multi-process traces; the release notes say the implementation preserves zones, messages and plots, while GPU zones, memory events and call stacks are lost.github.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Sampling
- The 0.14 release notes describe heuristic reconstruction of zone call stacks when sampling is enabled.github.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Assistant integration
- The 0.14 release notes describe an LLM assistant integration using llama.cpp models and captured Tracy data for analysis.github.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Local privacy
- The 0.13 release notes say the assistant runs locally on the user's system and that its activity stays private.github.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Downloads
- The repository's releases provide the Tracy PDF documentation and compiled Windows x64 binaries as assets.github.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Intended users
- The project describes Tracy as a profiler for games and other applications.github.com · 30 Sept 2026
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Sources
- github.com/wolfpld/tracy· checked 29 Sept 2026
- github.com/wolfpld/tracy/releases· checked 29 Sept 2026
- github.com/wolfpld/tracy/blob/master/LICENSE· checked 29 Sept 2026
- github.com/wolfpld/tracy/blob/master/README.md· checked 30 Sept 2026



