Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Portview – a diagnostic-first port TUI (Rust, cross-platform)
I built a small CLI tool that answers "what's using my port?" without the lsof/ss/netstat incantation dance.
Portview is a terminal user interface tool built in Rust for diagnosing port activity across Windows, macOS, and Linux. It displays information about open ports and network connections in an interactive command-line… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Port Kill helps you find and free ports and caches blocking your dev work. - treadiehq/port-kill
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — I’m the developer of NetViews, a macOS utility I built because I wanted better visibility into what was actually happening on my wired and wireless networks. I live in the CLI, but for discovery and ongoing monitoring, I kept bouncing between tools, terminals, and mental context switches. I wanted something faster and more visual, without losing technical depth — so I built a GUI that brings my favorite diagnostics together in one place. About three months ago, I shared an early version here and got a ton of great feedback. I listened: a new name (it was PingStalker), a longer trial,…
Feb 2026 · netviews.app · its alternatives →
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Port Checker▲87simple tool to check open ports on your computer
2014 · portchecker.co · its alternatives →
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A real-time network connection monitoring tool built with Rust and GTK4, displaying active connections with live I/O statistics in a modern graphical interface. https://github.com/grigio/network-monitor
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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I built a Rust-based CLI/terminal UI for inspecting Parquet files—data, metadata, and row-group-level structure—right from the terminal. If someone sent me a Parquet file, I used to open DuckDB or Polars just to see what was inside. Now I can do it with one command. Repo: https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Portia▲83The ultimate 1-click hunter for blocked macOS ports
Jun 2026 · getportia.app · its alternatives →
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An AI port manager for your Mac.
Aug 2026 · portradar.devmesh.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hi HN - I’m the developer of PingStalker, a macOS utility I built to see what’s really happening on the LAN/WLAN. I live in the CLI, but when it came to discovery and monitoring, I found it limiting. So I built a GUI that brings my favorite tools together in one place. PingStalker started because I wanted to know if something on the network was scanning my machine. I also wanted quick access to core details—external IP, Wi-Fi data, and local topology. Then I wanted more: fast, reliable scans using ARP tables and ICMP. As a Wi-Fi engineer, I couldn’t stop there. I kept adding ways to…
Nov 2025 · pingstalker.com · its alternatives →
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A beautiful web dashboard for Linux. Contribute to tariqbuilds/linux-dash development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Find, open and kill ports in a couple of clicks. Works with Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, HTTP and pretty much any process listening on a TCP port.
2019 · portmanager.app · its alternatives →
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Expose local http, tcp or websocket connections to the public internet - amalshaji/portr
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Portero▲166Know exactly what's running on every port of your Mac
Jul 2026 · porteroapp.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Port Checker is a simple tool to check for open ports and test port forwarding setup on your router. Verify and diagnose connection errors on your computer.
2014 · portchecker.co · its alternatives →
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📶 Troubleshoot problems with your Internet connection - jesusprubio/up
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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cat for images, by RUST
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HTTP client/libcurl TUI front end in Rust, with request + key storage - PThorpe92/CuTE
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I found it odd there wasn’t a simple web tool to scan Docker Hub images for vulnerabilities. So I built one. It’s powered by the popular open-source tool Trivy.
2023 · containercve.com · its alternatives →
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KDash▲76A simple terminal dashboard for Kubernetes built with Rust
2021 · kdash.cli.rs · its alternatives →
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My first Rust program with support from Cursor :)). few days for idea. 1 night for "talk and fight" with Cursor
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I built RustNet, a Terminal UI based network monitor written in Rust that shows real-time connections with process identification and protocol detection. What may make it interesting: • Deep packet inspection for HTTP, HTTPS/TLS (with SNI), DNS, and QUIC protocol detection • Process identification using eBPF on Linux (experimental) and PKTAP on macOS which does also catch short-lived processes that polling procfs or lsof would miss • Multi-threaded packet processing with lock-free data structures for the UI • Cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows but process identification so far…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This code is still in early beta, but i sincerley hope it will become as ubiquitous as VIM on Linux.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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YC (S26) | Open Computer History | Record your screen continuously locally and provide context to your agents (Claude, Codex, Openclaw, Hermes, Runner...) - screenpipe/screenpipe
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Port Light▲16I make this tool, a self-hosted dashboard, to show which host ports are taken, as a traffic-light grid. All the reason because I'm a home server enthusiast, but have a chaotic and terrible memory. It can aggregate ports from your different hosts and VPS as long as the network is reachable. And it merges three local sources into one grid: host listen tables, Docker API, and Compose files. As a beginner, I am open to everyone's comments, and if there are better similar tools, please tell me about them to help me refer to them for learning, thanks.
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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