Pressmatic Alternatives

Pressmatic is described as 'Robust local WordPress manager for Mac. All sites are isolated in individual Docker containers' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Pressmatic for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, PHP and MySQL Community Edition apps. The best Pressmatic alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pressmatic are BitNami Application Stacks, MAMP, WordPress Studio and Local by Flywheel.

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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 Pressmatic.

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

    • XAMPP is Free and Open SourcePressmatic is Paid and Proprietary
    • XAMPP is LightweightPressmatic is not according to our users
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    BitNami Stacks make it incredibly easy to deploy your favorite open source software. BitNami Stacks include an open source application and all of the other software necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL, PHP or Ruby.

    44 BitNami Application Stacks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • BitNami Application Stacks is the most popular Web-based alternative to Pressmatic.

    • BitNami Application Stacks is Free and Open SourcePressmatic is Paid and Proprietary
  3. MAMP icon
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    MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your computer. It comes free of charge, and is easily installed. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running on your system.

    45 MAMP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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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
     
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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
     
  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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    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

    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
     
  9. 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
     
    • Theme Juice is the most popular commercial alternative to Pressmatic.

    • Theme Juice is Paid and ProprietaryPressmatic is also Paid and Proprietary
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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
     
  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
     
  12. 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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