Portals - Local Web Server (for Mac)

[Melooon]

Portals! (Local Web Server)

Hello this is a tiny utility I made for myself and people who have followed my $30 webcraft guide (as well as anyone else on a mac)! It's a tiny local web hosting manager for your computer; it will transform any folder on your computer into a local website! (So you can code your site offline and still know everything is working)

Features:

• Just drag a folder from anywhere on your computer!
• Has hot-buttons to open the folder in your browser AND Finder
• Let's you share your site with anyone on your local network!
• Remembers your folders between restarts!
• Turns everything off neatly when you quit!
• Uses Python HTTP under the hood - will pick the latest python you have installed!
• Gives you random somewhat supportive messages??

Screenshot:


Download:

  Download Me Here! (Intel - MacOS 10.5+) 

  Download Me Here! (Apple Silicon - macOS 11+) 

  EXTRA note, if you are on an older MacOS (such as 10.6), *optional* I recommend installing a newer version of Python. Download and install the latest MacPorts (select the your OS version - For 10.6 it's "Snow Leopard"). Then open a terminal and run "sudo port install python313", agree to everything, and when its done run "sudo port select --set python3 python313" - This will inform Portals to use a newer python version that is quite a bit faster!

  EXTRA note, if you are on a modern MacOS, you may get unverified developer security alerts! Crtl-Click on it, then select Open. Failing that, put Portals.app in your Applications folder, then open terminal and run this "sudo xattr -rds com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Portals.app" - it may or may not help  (I do not plan to pay apples developer fees to resolve this)


    Updates:
I uploaded version 1.1 on 23/02/2026 It adds:

• A native Apple Silicon build
• A new Portal menubar item, plus keyboard shortcuts for all features
• A lot of small fixes for UI quirks
• Fixed issues with darkmode on macs that have darkmode