portkill
Native macOS menu bar app that lists local listening ports, shows which project owns them, and stops them in one click.
Details
- External ID
- 1387926532
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- portkill
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 64
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8719574686138868
- Tags
- developer-tools, kill-process, localhost, lsof, macos, macos-app, menu-bar, menubar-app, port-management, process-manager, swift, swiftui
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos menu bar app to view and kill listening ports
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar tool that runs system commands (like lsof and kill) and displays them in a GUI can be created quickly using Swift/SwiftUI or Tauri.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 281 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #54 of 282 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- Port Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- PortMon · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Termini · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- leftopen · github · 2026-09-16 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- DevSweep · github · 2026-09-13 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- sigstop · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- PortAura · ph · 2026-09-15 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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