Monitor, manage, and kill port processes from your menu bar and a full-featured window — with first-class support for SSH, Kubernetes, and Cloudflare tunnels.

Port conflicts kill developer flow. PortPilot gives you instant visibility into every listening port on your Mac — and the power to kill any of them in one click.

Unlike basic lsof wrappers, PortPilot understands tunnels. It detects SSH forwards, kubectl port-forward, and Cloudflare tunnels, showing you meaningful names like meilisearch instead of raw kubectl.

• Live port list grouped by connection type (Local, SSH, Kubernetes, Cloudflare)
• Color-coded sections with tunnel-aware labels
• Inline Stop button on tunnel rows — no hover required
• K8s namespace sub-grouping when ports span multiple namespaces
• Search, protocol filter, tree/list toggle

• Full port list with type icons and tunnel names
• Configuration panel — connection details, editable names, port mapping visualization
• 3-box port mapping for tunnels: Remote(:8080) → Local(:3000) → Protocol(TCP)
• Connection naming — name any port, persisted across sessions
• Per-port log filtering — toggle a funnel icon to see only the selected port's logs
• Favorites, categories (Web, Database, Dev, System), bulk kill

# List all ports
portpilot list

# Filter by range and protocol
portpilot list --start 3000 --end 3999 --proto tcp

# JSON output
portpilot list --json

# Kill a port
portpilot kill 5173 --force

# Interactive mode
portpilot interactive

git clone https://github.com/sriinnu/portpilot.git
cd portpilot

# Build release
swift build -c release

# Copy app to Applications
cp -r .build/release/PortPilot.app /Applications/

• macOS 13.0+
• Xcode 15.0+ / Swift 5.9+ (build only)

Sources/
├── PortPilot/              # SwiftUI macOS app
│   ├── PortPilotApp.swift        # App entry point
│   ├── ContentView.swift         # Main window layout
│   ├── PortViewModel.swift       # Core state + tunnel detection
│   ├── MenuBarDropdownView.swift # Menu bar popup
│   ├── MenuBarController.swift   # Status item management
│   ├── PortListPanel.swift       # Port list sidebar
│   ├── ConfigurationPanel.swift  # Port detail + mapping
│   ├── LogsPanel.swift           # Activity logs
│   ├── Theme.swift               # Colors, icons, sizes
│   ├── SettingsView.swift        # Preferences
│   └── AppSettings.swift         # UserDefaults wrapper
├── PortManagerLib/         # Shared library
│   ├── PortManager.swift         # lsof/kill operations
│   ├── PortWatcher.swift         # Port monitoring
│   ├── FavoritesManager.swift    # Favorites persistence
│   └── HistoryManager.swift      # Kill history
└── PortKillerCLI/          # CLI tool
    ├── CLI.swift                 # Argument parsing
    └── InteractiveMode.swift     # TUI mode

• Swift + SwiftUI — native macOS UI
• AppKit — menu bar integration
• Swift Package Manager — build system

MIT — see LICENSE for details.

Inspired by PortKiller.