Tailscale Proxy for desktop

A native menu-bar app for tsp. Start, stop, and watch your dev servers — and share them through one Tailscale URL — without touching a terminal.

Direct downloads from the latest release. Also see all releases .

What it does

• Menu-bar first. Click the icon for a panel: live status, one-tap Start / Stop, and a Public · Funnel / Private · Serve switch.
• Sees every dev server. Each discovered service shows its runtime, 127.0.0.1:port, CPU / memory / uptime, and project folder — auto-refreshed.
• Per-service actions. A ⋯ menu on each row: open the local or public URL, open the project folder, copy info, or kill the process (with confirmation).
• Guided setup. If Tailscale isn’t installed or signed in, the panel shows exactly what to do.
• Settings window for the full config (ports, runtimes, bind, mode, MagicDNS, …) plus Start at login.

It runs the exact same engine as the CLI and shares the same ~/.tailscale-proxy/config.json, so the app and tsp stay in sync.

Install

macOS

1. Open the .dmg and drag Tailscale Proxy into Applications.
2. The app isn’t notarized yet, so the first launch needs a one-time bypass — right-click the app → Open → Open, or run:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Tailscale Proxy.app"

3. It launches into the menu bar (no Dock icon). Click the icon to open the panel.

Windows

Unzip and run TailscaleProxy.exe. It’s unsigned, so SmartScreen may warn — More info → Run anyway. The icon appears in the system tray.

Linux

tar xzf Tailscale-Proxy-Linux.tar.gz
sudo apt install libgtk-4-1 libwebkitgtk-6.0-4   # one-time runtime deps
./tailscale-proxy

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/meabed/tailscale-proxy
cd tailscale-proxy/desktop && go build -o tsp-app . && ./tsp-app

Needs Go 1.25+ and a C toolchain (Xcode CLT on macOS; libgtk-3-dev + libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev on Linux). See desktop/README.md.