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CLUSTER BAR-MACOS-MENU-3 · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-11

macOS dev server managers

This cluster consists of macOS menu bar apps that help developers monitor and manage running dev servers, processes, and memory usage, often allowing one-click termination or pausing. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from – it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction is led by macos-sysdata with 611 stars, far ahead of open-bar (7) and ghostdev (3).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 4SEP 2026: 9OCT 2026: 2
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 13 unlabelled

Operator · 11 hobby · 4 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01localhostage2★15 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that lists running dev servers, identifies their processes, and frees occupied ports with one click.
  2. 02server-hub1★10 dayslivehobbymacOS menu bar app that lists every open localhost server and reports whether each is healthy, broken, or not a web server.
  3. 03portside1★16 days—hobbyMenu bar app that lists every local dev server and service running on a Mac, with ports and project origin, and can stop them.
  4. 04ghostdev3★1 mo—hobbymacOS menu bar app that tracks background development servers and virtual machines and lets users free memory by killing idle processes.
  5. 05haru0★25 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that opens local coding projects in VS Code with Docker containers and automatically shuts down unused containers.
  6. 06polinshield0★9 dayslivehobbyMenu bar app that protects macOS developers from npm supply-chain malware by detecting compromised packages.
  7. 07agent-janitor4★1 mo—A macOS menu-bar tool that tracks process lineage and cleans up orphaned dev servers.
  8. 08portless-manager0★20 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar utility that manages portless dev servers, showing projects and git worktrees with start, stop, and open actions.
  9. 09portside0★20 days—hobbyMenu bar app that lists running development servers grouped by repository and git worktree, showing ports and branches, and stops servers in one click.
  10. 10dsh-launcher2★1 mo—Tray application that manages the lifecycle of a local web service from the macOS menu bar, providing start, restart, and stop controls.
  11. 11ports-manager1★1 mo—hobbyA macOS menu bar app that lists running dev servers with process details and allows one-click termination for developers.
  12. 12town-dock0★1 mo—macOS menu-bar utility for managing worktrees, local services, ports, and orphaned resources.
  13. 13PortKiller0★1 mo—hobbymacOS menu bar app that lists running development servers with their ports and resource impact, and kills any of them with one click.
  14. 14wyd-barman0★1 molivehand-codedMenu bar utility that monitors and controls a local development runtime, showing status, containers, and projects with one-click actions.
  15. 15claude-reaper0★1 mo—hobbyMac menu bar app that finds orphaned shell processes left behind by AI coding sessions and terminates them to free CPU.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.