diff --git a/src/tools/qmlprofilertool/qmlprofilerapplication.cpp b/src/tools/qmlprofilertool/qmlprofilerapplication.cpp
index 75ee0daa0e0..8e8be8715b1 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"