PortAura
See what’s listening on your Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1248664
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- PortAura
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 69
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9736476373743853
- Tags
- Mac, Developer Tools, Security
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
PortAura is a native macOS utility that shows which processes are listening on which ports, where they’re exposed, and what has changed since your trusted baseline. It helps you understand local services without digging through Terminal commands. Everything runs locally on your Mac.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- network port monitoring app for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS wrapper that periodically parses `lsof` or sysctl networking tables and renders the active listening ports in a clean Swift/SwiftUI interface.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 91 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 92 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
- portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- PortMon · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Port Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Portero · ph · 2026-07-14 · 166 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- What Just Pinged Me? · hn · 2026-09-13 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Verity · ph · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- adhan-mute · github · 2026-09-12 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Sonara · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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