Laravel Herd Alternatives

Laravel Herd is described as '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' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Laravel Herd for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and PHP apps. The best Laravel Herd alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Laravel Herd are FlyEnv, WampServer, WordPress Studio and MAMP.

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  1. Laragon icon
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    A lightweight, fast and convenient modern LAMP Server with Redis and Memcached, extremely high performance. Laragon'll turn your computer into a powerful server in a minute so you can host Wordpress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and Prestashop quickly and effortlessly.

    49 Laragon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Laragon is the most popular commercial alternative to Laravel Herd.

    • Laragon is Paid and Open SourceLaravel Herd is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Laragon is LightweightLaravel Herd is not according to our users
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    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Laravel
     
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • memcached
    • Node.JS
     
  4. BAMP icon
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    BAMP is a small macOS utility to manage your local server based on Apache + MongoDB + PHP using the Homebrew toolkit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Kalabox icon
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    Faster local development for Drupal, WordPress, and beyond. Kalabox is the easiest way to develop websites and get them live. Get rid of the drudgery and have more fun!

    Kalabox is now discontinued. The successor is Lando.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Theme Juice icon
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    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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    Open Server Panel is a powerful alternative to WAMP stacks like Xampp, Wampserver, Herd, EasyPHP, Vertrigo, and similar solutions. This application runs on the Windows operating system, supports Apache and Nginx as web servers, and provides the ability to run various versions of...

    30 Open Server Panel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Fenix is a desktop web server for developers. A simple and visual static web server with collaboration features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. Lando icon
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    Lando is a free, open source, cross-platform, local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology and developed by Tandem.

    22 Lando alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. USBWebserver icon
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    USBWebserver is a bundled package of Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin Mini Relay and software that allows a Web server from a USB stick to run.

    33 USBWebserver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • USBWebserver is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Laravel Herd.

    • USBWebserver is Free and ProprietaryLaravel Herd is Freemium and Proprietary
  11. wmWebStack icon
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    wmWebStack is a desktop application that offers a complete local server environment for web development on Windows. It includes Apache, MySQL, and PHP, bundled together for easy management. With just one click, you can publish your local web projects to the public internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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