PortlessBar
Your Portless apps, one click away from the macOS menu bar
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Details
- External ID
- 1267299
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- PortlessBar
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.89
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Menu Bar Apps
Description
A free, open-source macOS companion for Portless. Open registered local apps from your menu bar, toggle the proxy without stopping your dev servers, and launch at login. Native Swift, no account or analytics. Requires macOS 14+ and Portless.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos menu bar utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos menu bar app for accessing local portless apps
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight native macOS menu bar utility written in Swift that acts as a GUI wrapper to toggle local proxies and open localhost URLs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 392 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #72 of 393 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- OmniMac · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Portero · ph · 2026-07-14 · 166 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MacRemote · github · 2026-09-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Open Contexts · ph · 2026-10-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Tetherly · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- macOS Apps on Linux: SwiftUI for Linux (and AppKit, NSFoundation, etc.) · hn · 2026-06-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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