Port Tools
Know which project owns every localhost port
Get picks like this daily. Today's launch numbers, the top launches, AI and tech news, and a daily opportunity pick, straight to your inbox.
Want to reach these readers? Sponsor an issue.
Port Tools is a native macOS menu bar app for developers who lose track of localhost services across repos and worktrees. Instead of showing only a port and PID, it maps each listener to its project, branch, app, and service type, and gives web apps stable *.localhost names. Before stopping an eligible service, it rechecks the process identity and refuses when the evidence is weak. It runs locally and is open source.
PH · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 312 launches in macos menu bar utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes The app is a native macOS menu bar tool that polls system utilities like `lsof` and `ps`, parses local `.git` metadata, and runs a basic reverse proxy.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 329 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #255 of 330 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Portlivo · ph · 2026-10-20 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- PortMon · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Doorman · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Portero · ph · 2026-07-14 · 166 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- MacMetric · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- PortSnap · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.53
The niche, labels, vibe code rating and competitor comparison on this page are analysis by Nicheloom. If you use them, please credit nicheloom.com. How you may use our data.