InstantWP Alternatives

InstantWP is described as 'Complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. It will turn almost any Windows or macOS machine into a WordPress development server. It will even run from a USB key' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to InstantWP for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, MySQL Community Edition and Redis apps. The best InstantWP alternative is WordPress Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like InstantWP are Local WP, Laravel Valet, Nitro Server and Laravel Herd.

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  1. A new way to develop locally with WordPress. Share your local sites with clients or colleagues and keep your local development process smooth and simple with unbreakable infrastructure.

    18 WordPress Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Wordpress
    • Linux
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    Provides a simple, local development environment with a friendly GUI. Uses Docker under the hood, similar to Vagrant but less tech experience needed.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Valet is a Laravel development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, no hosts file. You can even share your sites publicly using local tunnels. Yeah, we like it too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Laravel
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  4. Nitro Server icon
     1 like

    Create web servers with everything you need and deploy them wherever you prefer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
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  5. Laravel Herd icon
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    Herd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, dnsmasq and Node.js.

    51 Laravel Herd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
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  6. Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, or any other server software on your local machine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • memcached
    • Node.JS
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  7. Theme Juice icon
     2 likes

    Theme Juice is a powerful Mac app that creates local WordPress sites with just a click.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. WordPress Portable is a free program for Windows that automatically ships with everything needed to run WordPress locally. All you need to do is to extract the package contents on your system after download and start the WordPress Portable executable afterwards.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Pressmatic icon
     3 likes

    Pressmatic is a robust local WordPress manager for Mac. All sites are isolated in individual Docker containers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. 1ClickWP icon
     1 like

    1ClickWP is a powerful open-source tool that allows you to effortlessly create WordPress sites with just a single click. Whether you need a single WordPress site or a multisite network, 1ClickWP has got you covered.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. Laravel Sail is a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel's default Docker development environment. Sail provides a great starting point for building a Laravel application using PHP, MySQL, and Redis without requiring prior Docker experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Redis
    • Docker
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