Alternatives to InstantWP for all platforms with any license

Local by Flywheel

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

Freemium Mac Windows
No features added Add a feature

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WordPress Portable

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...
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Free Windows
Portable Add a feature

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DesktopServer

Choose fictional domain names to personalize each of your projects and create dozens of virtual servers in seconds. WordPress designers and developers seldom work on a...

Freemium Mac Windows Wordpress
Portable Add a feature

3 Like
Theme Juice

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

Commercial Mac
Remote deployment Local server Add a feature

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Pressmatic

Pressmatic is a robust local WordPress manager for Mac. All sites are isolated in individual Docker containers.
- Discontinued Pressmatic is now http://alternativeto.net/software/local-by-flywheel/ , it was acquired.
Commercial Mac
Support for Docker Nginx Add a feature

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