Local by Flywheel AlternativesOnly apps categorised as IDEs

The best IDE alternative to Local by Flywheel is Laravel Valet, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't work for you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Local by Flywheel, but unfortunately only two of them are IDEs.

Local by Flywheel

Web Server
Freemium • Proprietary

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

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Local by Flywheel alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022

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Laravel Valet
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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.
16 Laravel Valet alternatives
IDE
Free • Open Source
Mac
Laravel
License model
Free • Open Source
Application type
IDE
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Laravel
Laravel Valet Features
Based on Laravel
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InstantWP
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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
IDE
Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
MySQL Community Edition
Apache HTTP Server
PHP
Wordpress
License model
Free • Open Source
Application type
IDE
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
Mac
Windows
MySQL Community Edition
Apache HTTP Server
PHP
Wordpress
Discontinued
No release since 2018. The developer doesn't seem to answer bug reports and issues on GitHub anymore, and the used port (10080) is now blocked by default on modern browsers (see https://github.com/webtoolsgroup/InstantWP/issues/103).
InstantWP Features
LAMP
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