portmaster VS simplewall

There's a very good relatively new open-source GUI firewall app like this called Portmaster:

https://safing.io/

It's available for Windows and Linux

You can get your own firewall app. Portmaster by safing.io lets you open and close what ever ports you want on your windows system

amazing work OP! what's the difference between zen and portmaster? :) i would like to compare options to see which one fits my needs the best way

Portmaster itself is open source (https://github.com/safing/portmaster)

Then install https://safing.io/ (Portmaster); it's free.

Hmm.. Is there something similar for just the firewall?

I am using [simple wall](https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall), but with that Windows complains about a disabled firewall. Registering simple wall as a firewall with windows would be nice.

EU server list: https://pastebin.com/raw/Sh1VXdTZ - compatibile with simplewall - just update game install path for records (find & replace all)

You could install WPD (https://wpd.app/), use Simplewall (https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall) and a pihole on the network to block a lot, but it's still sad that we need to do this.

Apple alternatives include LuLu (https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu)

Edit: Now that I am back on a PC I did find this https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall/issues/1307 Basically same issue I had and how to address it. Figured I post for future readers lol.

Using third party software. Yes. (it is just gui for windows firewall)

I use OpenSnitch on Linux which is great, and if you are looking for a similar software for Windows I can recommend simplewall.

https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

I'm currently using https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall