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Barflare: A macOS menu-bar app for managing Cloudflare Tunnels without the terminal

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Daniel Pinto

1d ago· 1 min readenProduct

Summary

Barflare is a native macOS menu-bar app that simplifies managing Cloudflare Tunnels for developers. It provides a graphical interface to discover local dev servers, bind them to tunnels, start/stop tunnels, inspect logs, manage ingress rules and access policies, and auto-start tunnels with crash recovery — eliminating the need for terminal commands and config files when using Cloudflare Tunnels during development.

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I kept needing routable endpoints while building and testing apps: sharing work with colleagues, testing mobile flows against a real URL, wiring webhooks, trying auth callbacks, and experimenting with features that don't work well on plain localhost.
Cloudflare Tunnels solved the networking part, but the day-to-day workflow still meant terminal commands, config files, and remembering what was running where.
Barflare came from wanting a native Mac control surface for that: discover local servers, bind them to tunnels, start and stop them quickly, inspect logs, and keep the focus on building.
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Barflare is a macOS menu bar app that finds local and Conductor dev servers, then crBarflare is a native macOS menu-bar app for developers who use Cloudflare Tunnels but don’t want to live in the terminal. Create, import, start, stop, monitor, and organis

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