whoseportisitanyway

Cross-platform TUI for discovering which ports are in use, who owns them, and what they're for.

Install

cargo install whoseportisitanyway

Or download a prebuilt binary from the releases page.

Usage

Launch the interactive TUI:

whoseportisitanyway

Subcommands

whoseportisitanyway snapshot          # one-shot port table
whoseportisitanyway snapshot --json   # JSON output
whoseportisitanyway why 3000          # explain what's using port 3000
whoseportisitanyway list              # list all ports (JSON)
whoseportisitanyway list --plain      # tab-separated plain text

TUI Features

• Group ports by process, framework, or category
• Hide system/ephemeral ports to focus on dev services
• Search and filter by port, process, or description
• Kill processes directly from the TUI

Supported Platforms

• Linux (x86_64, aarch64)
• macOS (x86_64, Apple Silicon)

License

MIT