Your local web server. And the starting point for your whole Mac.

WebDonkey is a native macOS app with two jobs. It runs your local web server environment with Apache, Nginx, PHP, MySQL, your own domains and real HTTPS. And it sets your Mac up for coding, letting you install editors, database tools, terminals and AI CLIs straight from the app. On a fresh Mac you need nothing else to get started.

Free is a complete local web server: unlimited sites, six services at a time, HTTPS for three of them, the whole toolbox, the browser with its inspector and the local AI. Premium takes the limits off and adds the tools you use when working for clients: monitoring, remote over SSH, backups, and the embedded mail, database and log views. The comparison above shows every row on its own.

Premium is a subscription with a travelling seat. The key appears in your customer account after purchase and is activated in the app under Settings. One seat, any number of Macs: the licence is active wherever you are working. Quit the app on one machine and the other is free right away. Premium stays active without internet, and Free keeps getting every stable update.

Yes. Premium adds a full remote workspace: SSH connections with an embedded terminal, and an SFTP file manager showing local and server side by side, with multiple tabs and a built-in editor. Credentials are stored encrypted in the macOS keychain. There is also an Obsidian-compatible notes editor, both right inside the app.

Yes. Premium adds a full backup area: build backup sets from folders and databases, sort them into categories, and run them by hand or on a schedule, hourly, daily or weekly. Missed runs are caught up on the next start. You decide how many versions to keep, can back up incrementally, and write everything to a folder of your choice, an external drive for instance. Restoring works per folder and per database, and always asks before anything is overwritten.

Yes. WebDonkey has a cron workspace with a UI: create scheduled tasks that run any shell command on a standard cron expression (e.g. php artisan schedule:run, a queue worker, or a database export). Pick the working directory, output and exit code are captured, and missed runs are caught up on start. Three tasks are free; Premium makes them unlimited.

Yes. The built-in API client sends requests of any method with headers, query parameters, body and auth, and shows the response with status, timing, headers and a formatted body. Assertions check status code, response time, content and JSON paths. Sending and testing is free; saving into collections, with environments and history, is Premium. The client runs in the background service, so there are no CORS problems, and it reaches your local servers even over self-signed HTTPS.

A whole toolbox, free: a JSON viewer with conversion to CSV, YAML, PHP and TypeScript, a regex tester in JavaScript and PCRE flavours, file diff, a colour tool with a screen eyedropper and WCAG contrast, an icon browser with more than 200,000 free icons and plain-language licence guidance, code sandboxes for HTML, CSS and JavaScript, for PHP with the same php.ini as your sites, for Node and SQL, plus an HTML builder for Bootstrap and Tailwind. On top of that you manage shell aliases, SSH keys and host entries through a proper interface instead of dotfiles.

Yes. The subscription can be cancelled monthly, and the statutory right of withdrawal applies. The details are in our cancellation policy in the footer.