Sesshy

Native macOS menubar app that shows all your active terminal connections at a glance.

SSH sessions · Database connections · Port forwards · all in one click.

Ziplyne · Isaac Horowitz

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What it does

Sesshy sits in your macOS menubar and scans your running processes in real time. Click the icon to see every active remote session across all your terminal windows — no setup, no agents, no configuration files.

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Everything Sesshy detects

Remote Access

Command	What Sesshy shows
ssh user@host	Host or user@host target, connected socket endpoint, terminal app, TTY, elapsed time, working directory
ssh -i key.pem host	Correctly skips key flag, resolves host as the target
ssh -o ProxyCommand="..." host	Handles quoted option values, resolves the final host
ssh host tail -f /var/log/app.log	Detects host even when a remote command follows
scp src user@host:dest	Detected as a remote session, target resolved from arguments
sftp user@host	Detected as a remote session
mosh-client	Detected as a remote session (Mosh underlying transport process)

Databases

Command	What Sesshy shows
psql postgresql://user@host:5432/dbname	Host (host), database name (dbname)
psql postgresql://host/dbname	Host, database name
psql -h host -d dbname	Host via -h / --host, database via -d / --dbname
psql -h host dbname	Host and positional database name

Tunnels & Port Forwards

Command	What Sesshy shows
kubectl port-forward deployment/api 8080:80	Resource (deployment/api), port mapping (8080:80)
kubectl port-forward pod/mypod 5432:5432 -n staging	Resource, port mapping, ignores namespace flag
kubectl port-forward svc/myservice 3000:3000	Service name and port mapping

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Supported terminals

Sesshy walks the process tree to identify which terminal app each session belongs to:

Terminal	Detected as
Apple Terminal	Terminal
iTerm2	iTerm2
Ghostty	Ghostty
Warp	Warp
Kitty	Kitty
Alacritty	Alacritty
WezTerm	WezTerm
Hyper	Hyper

Any unrecognized terminal falls back to the TTY identifier (e.g. ttys003).

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Per-session details

For every detected session, Sesshy displays:

• Title — connection type (SSH, Postgres, Port Forward)
• Target — the hostname, user@host, Kubernetes resource, or database host
• Subtitle — database name, port mapping, or remote socket endpoint
• Terminal — which terminal app the session is running in
• TTY — the tty identifier
• Duration — how long the session has been alive (5s, 12m, 2h 4m, 1d 3h)
• Working directory — the cwd at the time of the session

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Requirements

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later
• Xcode 15+ (to build from source)

Build & Run

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/isaachorowitz/Sesshy-Menu.git
cd Sesshy-Menu

# Build release
swift build -c release

# Or open in Xcode
open SessionMenu.xcodeproj

Important: Run the built .app bundle — not swift run. The menubar icon only appears when launched as an .app.

Run tests

swift test

License

MIT — see LICENSE

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Built by Ziplyne — Product development & engineering
Isaac Horowitz

test Mon Mar 16 15:05:30 IST 2026