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SSH port forwards, in your menu bar.

Pick a host from your SSH config, set a local and remote port, and Mapper keeps the tunnel alive in the background.

Available for macOS.

Start and stop tunnels from the tray menu, no window needed.

Saved tunnels restart on launch and reconnect when they drop.

Uses the OpenSSH client that ships with macOS. No server installs.

Mapper just works

Add a tunnel, start it, and forget about it.

Every tunnel is saved to disk and restarted on launch.

Capped backoff from 2s to 30s, and it gives up after 6 failures.

Connecting, connected or retrying, with round-trip latency.

The SSH log for each tunnel, with a 200-line buffer.

Edit ~/.ssh/config in a form or as raw text.

Move your saved tunnels around as plain JSON.

Mapper is MIT licensed. Read the code, file an issue, send a patch.