Quick guide
Perga
Perga lives in your menu bar and frees a port that something is still holding — find the process on a port, see what it is, and stop it without opening a terminal.
Open Perga from the menu bar
Click the Perga icon in the menu bar, or press Cmd+Shift+K, to open the kill panel. Perga stays out of the Dock and is there when a local port gets stuck.
Find what's holding a port
Search by port, PID, process name, path, arguments, or project hint. Perga shows the process, path, project context, and PID so you can check what you are about to stop.
Stop the process
Choose graceful or force mode, then select the row and kill it from the panel. Perga refreshes the list when the process has changed since the last scan, so stale rows do not get signaled.
Clear ports faster
Quick-kill a known listening port straight from the menu bar, or select several rows in the panel and clear them as a batch. Both are free — they were the paid tier until 2026-08-18.
What's included
Free
- Find the process on any listening port
- Search and browse active ports
- Kill one selected process, or several at once
- Quick-kill a listening port straight from the menu bar
- Choose graceful or force mode
- Manual refresh
- Recent kills
Free in full · no license, no limits, nothing held back
Good to know
- Perga is local-first: port discovery and process termination happen on your Mac.
- Perga is free in full — there is no licence, no limit, and nothing held back. If it saves you time you can support it, but the app never asks.