Portero
Know exactly what's running on every port of your Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1195838
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Portero
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- July 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 166
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12155963302752294
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- monitor running ports on mac
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 147 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #143 of 148 (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 0.55
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PortAura · ph · 2026-09-15 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- omo · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Capso · ph · 2026-04-11 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OmniMac · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Launch Station · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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