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 a IDE in the development category. There are five alternatives to InstantWP for Mac, Windows, Linux and Laravel. The best InstantWP alternative is Local by Flywheel, which is free. Other great apps like InstantWP are WordPress Portable, Laravel Valet, Theme Juice and Pressmatic.

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Local by Flywheel
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Freemium • Proprietary
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8 Local by Flywheel alternatives
Provides a simple, local development environment with a friendly GUI. Uses Docker under the hood, similar to Vagrant but less tech experience needed.
- - Local by Flywheel is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to InstantWP.
- - Local by Flywheel is the most popular free alternative to InstantWP.
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WordPress Portable
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
5 WordPress Portable alternatives
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.
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1. PortableWordPress Portable can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 3.5, can be still downloaded from the Box link on the official website
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Laravel Valet
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Free • Open Source
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Mac
Laravel
8 Laravel Valet alternatives
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.
- - Laravel Valet is the most popular Open Source alternative to InstantWP.
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Theme Juice
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
10 Theme Juice alternatives
Theme Juice is a powerful Mac app that creates local WordPress sites with just a click.
- - Theme Juice is the most popular commercial alternative to InstantWP.
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Remote Deployment
Database migration
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Pressmatic
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
10 Pressmatic alternatives
Pressmatic is a robust local WordPress manager for Mac. All sites are isolated in individual Docker containers.
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Support for Docker
Nginx
Discontinued
Pressmatic is now Local by Flywheel , it was acquired.