Anvil Alternatives

Anvil is described as 'Takes your site folder, gives it a .dev URL and makes it run for you. Works for any static HTML sites and Rack apps' and is an app in the file sharing category. There are three alternatives to Anvil for Mac. The best Anvil alternative is Gas Mask, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Anvil are Hosts.prefpane and Knerve.

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    Gas Mask

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    Gas Mask is simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X. It allows editing of host files and switching between them.

    12 Gas Mask alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    • Gas Mask is the most popular Mac alternative to Anvil.

    • Gas Mask is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Anvil.

    • Gas Mask is Free and Open SourceAnvil is Free and Proprietary
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    Hosts.prefpane

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    Hosts add a preference pane to your system preferences which lets you toggle your host file entries on and off, as well as add and remove them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Knerve

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    A tiny menubar app for OS X that gives you dot dev domains, PHP support and HTTPS and does it without doing a thing to your system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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