diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5421ad504..f2fa2d00d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1395,7 +1395,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
  "pgp",
  "pretty_assertions",
- "pretty_env_logger",
  "proptest",
  "qrcodegen",
  "quick-xml",
@@ -1451,7 +1450,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "deltachat",
  "deltachat-contact-tools",
- "env_logger 0.11.3",
+ "env_logger",
  "futures",
  "log",
  "num-traits",
@@ -1475,10 +1474,10 @@ dependencies = [
  "deltachat",
  "dirs",
  "log",
- "pretty_env_logger",
  "rusqlite",
  "rustyline",
  "tokio",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1488,13 +1487,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
  "deltachat-jsonrpc",
- "env_logger 0.11.3",
  "futures-lite 2.3.0",
  "log",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
  "yerpc",
 ]
 
@@ -2150,19 +2149,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "env_logger"
-version = "0.10.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4cd405aab171cb85d6735e5c8d9db038c17d3ca007a4d2c25f337935c3d90580"
-dependencies = [
- "humantime",
- "is-terminal",
- "log",
- "regex",
- "termcolor",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "env_logger"
 version = "0.11.3"
@@ -4759,16 +4745,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "yansi",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "pretty_env_logger"
-version = "0.5.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "865724d4dbe39d9f3dd3b52b88d859d66bcb2d6a0acfd5ea68a65fb66d4bdc1c"
-dependencies = [
- "env_logger 0.10.2",
- "log",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "primeorder"
 version = "0.13.6"
@@ -6381,15 +6357,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "termcolor"
-version = "1.4.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "06794f8f6c5c898b3275aebefa6b8a1cb24cd2c6c79397ab15774837a0bc5755"
-dependencies = [
- "winapi-util",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "testdir"
 version = "0.9.1"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2c9d00814..816337aad 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ once_cell = { workspace = true }
 percent-encoding = "2.3"
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 pgp = { version = "0.11", default-features = false }
-pretty_env_logger = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
 qrcodegen = "1.7.0"
 quick-xml = "0.31"
 quoted_printable = "0.5"
@@ -119,7 +118,6 @@ anyhow = { version = "1", features = ["backtrace"] } # Enable `backtrace` featur
 criterion = { version = "0.5.1", features = ["async_tokio"] }
 futures-lite = "2.3.0"
 log = "0.4"
-pretty_env_logger = "0.5"
 proptest = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 tempfile = "3"
 testdir = "0.9.0"
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
index 02f7ad381..7827fa39a 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ anyhow = "1"
 deltachat = { path = "..", features = ["internals"]}
 dirs = "5"
 log = "0.4.21"
-pretty_env_logger = "0.5"
 rusqlite = "0.31"
 rustyline = "14"
 tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 
 [features]
 default = ["vendored"]
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs b/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
index 9f666b318..00e885f46 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
+++ b/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ use rustyline::{
 };
 use tokio::fs;
 use tokio::runtime::Handle;
+use tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter;
 
 mod cmdline;
 use self::cmdline::*;
@@ -483,9 +484,10 @@ async fn handle_cmd(
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
-    pretty_env_logger::formatted_timed_builder()
-        .parse_default_env()
-        .filter_module("deltachat_repl", log::LevelFilter::Info)
+    tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+        .with_env_filter(
+            EnvFilter::from_default_env().add_directive("deltachat_repl=info".parse()?),
+        )
         .init();
 
     let args = std::env::args().collect();
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index dc4161d71..5bafe76fb 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ deltachat-jsonrpc = { path = "../deltachat-jsonrpc", default-features = false }
 deltachat = { path = "..", default-features = false }
 
 anyhow = "1"
-env_logger = { version = "0.11.3" }
 futures-lite = "2.3.0"
 log = "0.4"
 serde_json = "1"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["io-std"] }
 tokio-util = "0.7.9"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }
 
 [features]
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs b/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs
index 2ed976609..0702be77e 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use deltachat::constants::DC_VERSION_STR;
 use deltachat_jsonrpc::api::{Accounts, CommandApi};
 use futures_lite::stream::StreamExt;
 use tokio::io::{self, AsyncBufReadExt, BufReader};
+use tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter;
 use yerpc::RpcServer as _;
 
 #[cfg(target_family = "unix")]
@@ -60,7 +61,13 @@ async fn main_impl() -> Result<()> {
     #[cfg(target_family = "unix")]
     let mut sigterm = signal_unix::signal(signal_unix::SignalKind::terminate())?;
 
-    env_logger::Builder::from_env(env_logger::Env::default().default_filter_or("info")).init();
+    // Logs from `log` crate and traces from `tracing` crate
+    // are configurable with `RUST_LOG` environment variable
+    // and go to stderr to avoid interferring with JSON-RPC using stdout.
+    tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+        .with_env_filter(EnvFilter::from_default_env())
+        .with_writer(std::io::stderr)
+        .init();
 
     let path = std::env::var("DC_ACCOUNTS_PATH").unwrap_or_else(|_| "accounts".to_string());
     log::info!("Starting with accounts directory `{}`.", path);
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 49638def4..c860dea4f 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ skip = [
      { name = "dlopen2", version = "0.4.1" },
      { name = "ed25519-dalek", version = "1.0.1" },
      { name = "ed25519", version = "1.5.3" },
-     { name = "env_logger", version = "0.10.2" },
      { name = "event-listener", version = "2.5.3" },
      { name = "event-listener", version = "4.0.3" },
      { name = "fastrand", version = "1.9.0" },