Localtunnel

Expose your localhost to the web with a public URL

About Localtunnel

Localtunnel is a free, open-source tool that assigns a public URL to a local development server. Key features include custom subdomain requests, a simple npm CLI, no sign-up required, and a self-hostable server. It is available free of charge from its official site, where the developers provide downloads, documentation, and updates for anyone who wants to install and use it.

Localtunnel key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: tunneling, localhost, open source, sharing
Official site: localtunnel.github.io

About the Developer Tools category

Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 776 tools. Alongside Localtunnel, it includes zrok, Pinggy, Dead Man's Snitch, AppSignal.

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Comparing tools in the Developer Tools category? These related listings are worth a look: zrok — Open-source sharing platform built on OpenZiti; Pinggy — Simple tunnels to localhost over a single SSH command; Dead Man's Snitch — Cron monitoring from the creators of PagerDuty-style simplicity.