# Perfetto

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/perfetto/

7 people recommended Perfetto in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 5 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free tool that spares you building your own trace viewer. Critics say it is less seamless than chrome://tracing.

Summary written by Claude from 11 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Useful, avoids building your own viewer (2 comments in the sample): "This alone is profoundly useful and I greatly respect the impact they have had towards commoditizing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780986)) "building a viewer for your traces is a completely avoidable pain" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702671))

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## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Perfetto", https://hackerapproved.com/p/perfetto/ (7 recommend, 1 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 3 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.