Theme Juice Alternatives

Theme Juice is described as 'Powerful Mac app that creates local WordPress sites with just a click' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Theme Juice for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, PHP and MySQL Community Edition apps. The best Theme Juice alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Theme Juice are BitNami Application Stacks, WordPress Studio, MAMP and Local by Flywheel.

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  1. XAMPP icon
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    Free open-source web server solution with Apache, MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. Easy installation for local web development across Windows, Linux, macOS. Ideal for creating and testing websites, supports commercial use, with regular updates and a user-friendly control panel.

    58 XAMPP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
     
    • XAMPP is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Theme Juice.

    • XAMPP is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Theme Juice.

    • XAMPP is Free and Open SourceTheme Juice is Paid and Proprietary
    • XAMPP is LightweightTheme Juice is not according to our users
  2. BitNami Stacks make it incredibly easy to deploy your favorite open source software. BitNami Stacks include an open source application and all of the other software necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL, PHP or Ruby.

    44 BitNami Application Stacks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • BitNami Application Stacks is the most popular Web-based alternative to Theme Juice.

    • BitNami Application Stacks is Free and Open SourceTheme Juice is Paid and Proprietary
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Wordpress
     
  4. MAMP icon
     86 likes

    MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your computer. It comes free of charge, and is easily installed. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running on your system.

    45 MAMP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    17 Local by Flywheel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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.

    50 Laravel Herd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  8. Nitro Server icon
     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
     
    • Nitro Server is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Theme Juice.

    • Nitro Server is Free and Open SourceTheme Juice is Paid and Proprietary
    • Nitro Server is LightweightTheme Juice is not according to our users
  9. 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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • memcached
    • Node.JS
     
  10. InstantWP icon
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    InstantWP is a 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.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
    • Wordpress
     
  11. 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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