Laravel Valet Alternatives

Laravel Valet is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Laravel Valet for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, MySQL Community Edition and PHP apps. The best Laravel Valet alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Laravel Valet are WordPress Studio, ServBay, Local by Flywheel and Laragon.

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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.

    57 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 Laravel Valet.

    • XAMPP is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Laravel Valet.

    • XAMPP is Free and Open SourceLaravel Valet is also Free and Open Source
    • XAMPP is LightweightLaravel Valet is not according to our users
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    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.

    17 WordPress Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Wordpress
     
  3. ServBay icon
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    ServBay is a specially crafted local dev env platform made for web developers. It integrates all the essential components for daily development, including programming languages, SQL/NoSQL databases, web servers, DNS services, email services, SSL certificate, and AI/LLM features.

    35 ServBay alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    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
     
  5. 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 Valet.

    • Laragon is Paid and Open SourceLaravel Valet is Free and Open Source
    • Laragon is LightweightLaravel Valet is not according to our users
  6. 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
     
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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
     
  8. 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
     
  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. 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
     
  11. 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.

    12 InstantWP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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