Ace Trace (macOS)

Last Updated: Jul 24, 2026

Play Ace Trace on PC and Mac

Ace Trace is a sports video editing app designed to bring your best moments to life by letting you draw animated motion trails directly onto your footage. Built with disc golfers in mind but flexible enough for any sport or activity, Ace Trace lets you track a moving object across a video clip and overlay a clean, stylized line that follows its path. Whether you are capturing a frisbee curving through the air, a basketball arcing toward the hoop, or any other fast-moving subject, Ace Trace transforms raw clips into polished, shareable highlights. You can enjoy all of this on your PC by running Ace Trace through MuMuPlayer, the Android emulator built for smooth mobile app performance on desktop.

The core editing workflow in Ace Trace is built around simplicity. You mark a handful of key points along the object's path in the video, select a line style that suits your aesthetic, and then export the finished clip ready for social media. There is no complicated timeline editing or steep learning curve involved. The app focuses on doing one thing exceptionally well, which is giving your sports videos a professional motion-trace effect in just a few taps. A paid subscription is required to unlock video exporting.

Running Ace Trace on PC through MuMuPlayer gives you a noticeably more comfortable editing experience. The larger screen makes it much easier to place path points accurately, especially when tracking small or fast-moving objects like a disc in flight. Mouse precision helps you position each marker exactly where you need it, reducing errors that can be frustrating on a small touchscreen. MuMuPlayer also keeps the app running stably in the background, so you can edit clips at your own pace without worrying about battery drain or interruptions. If you regularly create sports highlight content, using Ace Trace inside MuMuPlayer on your desktop is a practical and efficient setup.

About the Game

Creating compelling sports highlight videos usually requires complex editing software and a lot of time, but Ace Trace takes a completely different approach. This mobile video editor is focused on one specific and visually striking effect: drawing an animated line that traces the path of a moving object through your video. The result is a clean, dynamic highlight that immediately draws the viewer's eye and gives your footage a professional, broadcast-style look.

The app was originally developed by a disc golfer who wanted a better way to showcase impressive throws and flight paths in disc golf footage. That origin story shapes the whole design philosophy. Ace Trace is lean, purposeful, and built around making the editing process as fast as possible without sacrificing quality. While disc golf is the original use case, the tool works just as well for tracking a basketball shot, a paper airplane, a soccer ball bending around a wall, or practically any other object moving through a video frame.

How the editing process works:

Open your video clip inside the app
Place a series of marker points along the path the object travels
Choose from available line styles to customize the visual look of your trace
Export the finished video once your trace is complete

The workflow is intentionally short. There is no need to learn keyframing, masking, or any advanced editing concept. The app guides you through the process with a minimal interface, keeping the focus entirely on the trace effect itself. A few taps are genuinely all it takes to go from raw clip to finished highlight.

Line style options let you adjust the visual character of the trace to match your content. Whether you want something bold and vivid for high-energy action footage or something more subtle for a stylized slow-motion clip, the styling choices give you enough flexibility to make each video feel intentional rather than templated.

Once your trace is complete, the export function packages the video for sharing directly to social media platforms. This makes Ace Trace especially useful for content creators who post regularly to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or similar channels. Note that exporting requires an active paid subscription.

For anyone who creates sports content frequently, running Ace Trace through MuMuPlayer on a PC adds real practical value. The larger display makes it significantly easier to identify and mark the exact path of a moving object, particularly when the subject is small or moving quickly across the frame. Mouse-based input also gives you finer control when placing your path markers compared to tapping on a phone screen. The overall editing session becomes more relaxed and precise, which tends to produce better results.

Whether you are a disc golfer looking to share your best throws, a basketball coach building a highlight reel for recruits, or just someone who wants their action videos to stand out online, Ace Trace provides a fast and focused solution. Its simplicity is its strength, and paired with MuMuPlayer for desktop use, it becomes an even more capable part of your content creation toolkit.