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A personal dev control center for everything you run locally. One calm, dark window discovers your projects from the Caddy reverse proxy, gives each a pretty .localhost address, launches dev servers in embedded terminals that survive closing the window, watches every port, and deploys to production in one click.

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What it does

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Caddy App Discovery

Reads the local Caddy admin API and parses the running config, so every local project shows up automatically with its own myapp.localhost address.

Register in Seconds

Pick a folder and the start command is detected for you — Rails, Node, Django, Go, Rust — then the reverse-proxy entry gets wired up automatically.

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Persistent Terminals

Real pty sessions in tmux-style tabs. Dev servers keep running when you close the window, and each app-and-purpose pair reuses one tab instead of stacking them.

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Live Port Monitoring

Green 'Live' and grey 'Asleep' status everywhere in the UI, plus a reaper that frees ports left behind by dead processes.

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One-Click Kamal Deploy

Detects your deploy config, surfaces its aliases as buttons, and runs the deploy in a live terminal tab — with a second tab tailing production logs.

Command Palette

A ⌘K palette launches, restarts, stops and reloads everything without your hands leaving the keyboard.

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Per-App Avatars

Each registered project gets a deterministic animal glyph from a fixed set of nine, so projects stay recognizable at a glance.

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Signed In and Up to Date

Browser-based PKCE sign-in with Keychain-backed tokens, plus a notify-only update banner that rechecks daily.

Every Local App, One Window

Discover, launch, monitor and deploy every project you run — from a window that always knows what's live.

Current version
1.0.0
Native app
macOS 15+
Deterministic avatars
9

Built with

  • SwiftUI
  • Swift
  • SwiftData
  • SwiftTerm (pty)
  • Caddy Admin API
  • Kamal
  • Keychain + PKCE OAuth
  • XCTest
  • notarytool release pipeline

Built for My Own Machine First

A notarized macOS app I run every day across every project on this page. Currently distributed privately — get in touch if you want a look.

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