IPortView

IPortView is a tiny, straightforward and highly intuitive application whose only purpose is to reveal your current local and IP address.

It does so by showing a small notification balloon from the system tray area. Otherwise, it sits there silently without distracting you from your regular PC activities.

The program is not designed to help you change your IP address, so you'll have to resort to another tool for that purpose, like X-Proxy, Hotspot Shield or CyberGhost VPN. However, you can run it alongside such an app to easily get a glimpse of your current IP address.

Installing IPortView is a seamless job that shouldn't give you any trouble. It gets sent to the taskbar notifications area as soon as it's launched, and you can left click the icon to find out your local and public IP address.

By opening the right-click menu you can copy any of the two addresses to the Clipboard, change the interface language, refresh the addresses, find out if a specific port is open, as well as use a simple tool that expands a short URL, revealing its original form, and allowing you to copy it to the Clipboard. There are no other notable options available here.

Unsurprisingly, the application had minimal impact on computer performance in our tests, running on low CPU and memory. It didn't hang, crash or display error messages.

Although it doesn't feature rich options, IPortView is a simple and reliable program that quickly shows your local and public IP addresses from the system tray, backed by a port finder and short URL expander. Plus, it's freeware.