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Portero

Know exactly what's running on every port of your Mac

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Portero is a free, open source Mac app that shows every open port and the process behind it. See what's running, kill processes on busy ports, fix 'address already in use' errors, and block ports with the built-in macOS firewall.

PH · launched Jul 14, 2026 · 166 upvotes (top 88%) · 0 views

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes This is a straightforward native macOS utility app that wraps common system commands like `lsof -i`, `netstat`, `kill`, and native pf/firewall configurations in a standard Swift/SwiftUI interface.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 363 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #355 of 364 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 236 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Port Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • PortlessBar · ph · 2026-10-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • MacMetric · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • portkeeper · github · 2026-10-15 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • PortAura · ph · 2026-09-15 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Portlivo · ph · 2026-10-20 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.46

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