diff --git a/src/tools/qmlprofilertool/qmlprofilerapplication.cpp b/src/tools/qmlprofilertool/qmlprofilerapplication.cpp
index 75ee0daa0e0d3c1a44b9fed9d478f8384530c7f8..8e8be8715b19583ae44e4ab55b6eeed220686cd7 100644
--- a/src/tools/qmlprofilertool/qmlprofilerapplication.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/qmlprofilertool/qmlprofilerapplication.cpp
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ static const char usageTextC[] =
 "    qmlprofiler [options] [program] [program-options]\n"
 "    qmlprofiler [options] -attach [hostname]\n"
 "\n"
-"QML Profiler is a command line client to retrieve tracing data from a QML engine.\n"
-"The tracing data collected can then be visualized in Qt Creator.\n"
+"QML Profiler is used to retrieve QML tracing data from a running application.\n"
+"The data collected can then be visualized in Qt Creator.\n"
 "\n"
 "The application to be profiled has to enable QML debugging. See the Qt Creator\n"
 "documentation on how to do this for different Qt versions.\n"