Cockpit lives in your menu bar. Toggle SSH tunnels and bash commands on and off instantly — no terminal juggling required.
Why Cockpit
Start and stop SSH tunnels or any bash command instantly from the menu bar. No terminal windows, no typing.
Passwords are stored in the macOS Keychain — never in plain text. Temp scripts are deleted the moment they're no longer needed.
Click the terminal button on any running connection to attach to its live session and see exactly what's happening.
Cockpit watches your sessions. If a tunnel drops, the status updates automatically — no manual refresh needed.
Lives quietly in your menu bar with a status badge. Green means go. One glance tells you everything.
Heading into a meeting? One master toggle starts or stops all your connections simultaneously.
Free download. No installer. Just drag to Applications and go.
Download Cockpit 1.0 (.dmg)macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · ~4MB