iTrace vs Tobii Pro Lab
iTrace
github.com
Tobii Pro Lab
tobii.comSide by side
| Figure | iTrace | Tobii Pro Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Eye Tracking Software | 8.4 (#2) | 7.0 (#22) |
| Integrations | The project lists OpenCV, MediaPipe, FastAPI, Uvicorn, Streamlit, Plotly, and Matplotlib as optional dependencies. | The software supports multimodal workflows involving EEG, GSR, ECG, fNIRS, and other modalities, and provides an interface for third-party software. |
| Purpose | iTrace is a webcam eye-movement analysis toolkit for gaze, saccades, microsaccades, and pupil measurements. | Tobii Pro Lab is experimental software for eye tracking studies, with experimental design, data preprocessing, and analysis tools. |
Plans
Tobii Pro Lab
- Analyzer EditionPriced on request
- Distributed Online EditionPriced on request
- Full EditionPriced on request
- Screen-based EditionPriced on request
In their own words
iTrace
iTrace is a free, MIT-licensed toolkit for analyzing webcam eye-tracking data, with a scientific core built on NumPy and SciPy. It computes gaze in degrees of visual angle and detects fixations, saccades, and microsaccades using I-VT, I-DT, and Engbert–Kliegl methods. Pupil tools include blink detection and interpolation, preprocessing, and eye-crop segmentation measured in pixels or relative to iris size. Affine screen-space calibration reports calibration error and gaze-quality measures. The command-line tool analyzes gaze CSV files and exports JSON reports. Optional webcam capture uses OpenCV and MediaPipe, and optional interfaces include a local HTML app using FastAPI and WebSockets and a Streamlit dashboard. Live workflows can export derived gaze, pupil, and capture CSVs. By default, the workflow does not save raw eye video or persisted eye-crop images, though live viewing may send a temporary JPEG crop to a browser over a local WebSocket. The project says its checks use synthetic ground truth rather than real eye-tracking data or a reference device. Webcam pupil size is a relative proxy, not a measurement in millimetres.
Tobii Pro Lab
Tobii Pro Lab has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.