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Better Dev Server Manager
Menu Bar Dev Process Monitor
See every dev server running on your Mac, and kill the ones you don't need.
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In developmentThe Mac utility detects local processes and exposes ports, resource use, and individual/group stop controls.
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About this app
Better Dev Server Manager is a macOS menu bar app that detects and manages local development and background processes, including Node, Nuxt, Vue, Nitro, Express, Vite, and Next tooling alongside Python and Ruby app servers, local AI tools, tunnels, databases, and other local services. It surfaces every process's port, PID, runtime, CPU, and memory usage, flags ports reachable from the LAN, and lets you open any listening port in the browser with a click. Processes can be killed individually, in a multi-selection, or by family filter directly from the popover. Built with SwiftUI, @Observable, and actor-based services on Swift 6.2, it uses a C shim over libproc for process introspection and stuarttech-shared modules for core utilities and UI.
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