PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar
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.
PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar launched on November 30, 2019 with 60 votes, #674 of 3,203 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
PortManager is a macOS menu bar utility that helps users manage network ports directly from their system menu. Designed for developers and system administrators who need quick access to port management tasks, it offers convenient control without requiring terminal commands or full applications. The tool streamlines port monitoring and configuration for those working with multiple services on their Mac.
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From the sources
Find, open and kill ports in a couple of clicks — so you can go back to writing code. You fire up a project and are interrupted by an obnoxious EADDRINUSE message. Frustrated, you do some Googling and find a series of commands on StackOverflow. You fumble around in terminal with some unfamiliar commands until you manage to kill the process. You get another EADDRINUSE message. You open Google and type "How do I kill a process on mac?"from portmanager.app
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