Observed arrival · 2026-11-13
Portis puts Mac listening ports in one table
A native Mac app for inspecting listening TCP ports and bound UDP ports, the processes behind them, and whether other machines can reach them.
- For
- Mac developers troubleshooting ports and local servers
- Worth noticing
- The page says Portis uses Apple's nettop on macOS 27 to list ports belonging to system services and other users without sudo.
Field notes
The page walks through a port table with search across row contents, sortable columns, and per-column filters. Selecting a row exposes its full command line, working directory, and parent process; the page notes that a folder path can distinguish several node processes. Portis says it uses Apple's nettop on macOS 27 to include system and other-user ports without sudo. Its process-ending action asks first and sends SIGTERM, but applies only to the current user's processes.
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