WebDonkey Premium License
€8.00
Price in other currencies
- USD ≈ 9 $
- GBP ≈ 7 £
- CHF ≈ 8 Fr
- PLN ≈ 35 zł
- SEK ≈ 89 kr
- DKK ≈ 60 kr
- NOK ≈ 86 nkr
- CZK ≈ 194 Kč
Approximate conversion for orientation. Billing is always in euro.
Subscription product, Every month
Scroll through the app once. The bar on the left is the real sidebar; it follows along and shows you where you are.
Tour
Chapter 1 of 25
Top bar 01
An interface that stays out of your way
Free
The sidebar on the left holds everything the app can do. The top bar holds what you need all the time. And ⌘K opens a search that takes you anywhere in two keystrokes, more on that in the very next chapter.
- Start, stop or restart every service with one click in the top bar.
- Search and shortcuts take you to any page, site or action at the press of a key, no mouse needed.
- Collapse the sidebar, switch the theme, see Free or Premium at a glance.
Top bar 02
Search and shortcuts: your things, one keystroke away
Free
⌘K finds everything. Pages, sites, services, actions, tools, settings, docs, themes. The search learns what you use most, and any action can get a shortcut of its own. That is how you switch between your things without taking your hands off the keyboard.
- Recent and Popular on top, then every category with two suggestions drawn from your own usage, the rest one click away.
- Your own shortcuts, from a single key to a key sequence. The shortcut sits right next to the action in the search.
- Mistyped? ⌘Z takes a shortcut back for five seconds. Nothing ever fires while you are typing in a field.
Overview 03
A dashboard you assemble yourself
Free
The state of your environment at a glance: running services, your sites, new mail, subscriptions coming due, the next backups. Which tiles go where is your call, by drag and drop.
- 18 widgets, from status and services to monitor, notes and sandbox size.
- Arrange tiles in three columns, resize them, filter them.
- The layout stays the way you left it, restart included.
Top bar 04
A browser with an inspector, right in the window
Free
Page and tool side by side, no window switching. The integrated browser has tabs, tab groups and device sizes to try. The inspector next to it shows elements, console, network, cookies, storage, tags, SEO and Lighthouse.
- Check your local site in a phone, tablet or desktop viewport.
- Network requests with timing and sizes, a console with filters.
- See which tag managers, events and consent states a page really loads.
Hosting 05
Unlimited local sites, each with its own domain
Free & Premium
Pick a folder, type a domain, choose a PHP or Node version, done. HTTPS and name resolution are set up by WebDonkey itself. DDEV projects and Docker containers sit right next to them.
- Any domain, such as clientshop.test, with aliases and a valid certificate.
- nginx or Apache, a PHP version per site, a Node version per site.
- Diagnose, open the folder, open in the browser, regenerate the certificate.
Hosting 06
HTTPS locally, without warnings
Free & Premium
WebDonkey has its own root CA and issues a certificate for every site. Trust the CA once and every .test domain is green in the browser.
- All certificates with days left, domains and status on one page.
- Renew, view details, spot orphaned certificates.
- Set up CA trust with one click; the app asks for your password once.
Hosting 07
Every service in one place
Free & Premium
Web servers, PHP, Node, databases, cache, mail, search, queue, storage, apps and AI tools. Install, start, stop, switch versions. Everything in a sandbox, nothing touches your system.
- Several versions in parallel, say PHP 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 side by side.
- Pin favourites, set versions active, check for updates.
- Free runs up to six services at once, Premium all of them.
Hosting 08
Edit configuration without hunting for files
Free & Premium
php.ini, vhosts, FPM pools, service configs and your system files such as .zshrc or the SSH config. All in an editor with syntax colours, validation and presets to drop in.
- Save, and the service picks up the change.
- FPM configs are validated before saving; a typo takes nothing down.
- Presets for upload limits, OPcache, time zone, debugging.
Hosting 09
Create and browse databases
Free & Premium
Manage MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, create databases and users. Adminer is built in and opens right inside the app, with server and user already filled in.
- Start servers, create or drop databases, manage users.
- Adminer embedded for browsing tables, running queries and exporting.
- Free opens Adminer in the browser, Premium right in the window.
Hosting 10
Every mail lands with you, none with the client
Free & Premium
Mailpit catches everything your projects send. Order confirmations, password links, newsletter tests: all in the built-in inbox, with HTML view, source and attachments.
- One SMTP port for all sites, nothing leaves the machine.
- Read mail, search it, check it as HTML or text.
- The dashboard widget shows the latest mail without switching pages.
Work 11
Your terminal, tidied up
Free
Shell aliases, SSH keys, SSH hosts and known_hosts in one place. Plus shims, so php, node and the other tools in your terminal use the version from WebDonkey.
- Create aliases in the interface and import the ones your shell already has.
- Generate SSH keys, copy the public key.
- Maintain SSH hosts, clean out old known_hosts entries.
Work 12
Onto the client's server, without switching windows
Premium
SSH terminal and SFTP file manager in one tab. Drag files back and forth, edit them right in the editor, change permissions. Credentials live in the macOS keychain, not in a text file.
- Several sessions in tabs; they stay open while you work elsewhere.
- Your Mac on the left, the server on the right, upload and download in between.
- Open and save remote files in the editor, with a warning for unsaved changes.
Work 13
Build requests and check responses
Free & Premium
An API client with everything you expect from one: method, URL, params, headers, body, auth and tests. Environments with variables, saved requests, history. A Postman replacement, but local.
- Send requests with a timeout, read the response with body preview and headers.
- Assertions on status, headers and body fields, green or red.
- Sending and testing is Free, saving and organising is Premium.
Work 14
The small tools you would otherwise google
Free & Premium
24 tools in ten groups. Format JSON, test regex, generate hashes, manage colours, search icons, run code, build layouts, find components, build animations. All offline, nothing ends up on someone else's server.
- Two keystrokes in the palette and you are in any tool.
- Inputs survive a restart; you pick up where you left off.
- Every tool is Free; only saved items have quotas on Free.
Work 15
An assistant that stays on your Mac
Free & Premium
Local language models through Ollama, as a managed service. No key, no cloud, no token counter. Attach files, folders or logs to your question and the assistant reads along.
- Models rated for your hardware and loaded with one click.
- Specialists with a fixed context and their own role, say for Shopware or Laravel.
- The Agent tab runs coding agents in the embedded terminal against your local model.
Work 16
Notes that Obsidian understands
Premium
A Markdown vault with editor, preview and split view. The files sit as .md on your disk; Obsidian and any other editor read them just the same.
- Create, rename and move folders and notes.
- Saved automatically, with a note of when.
- Detects an existing vault, iCloud included.
Work 17
Know what your tools cost
Free & Premium
Hosting, domains, tools, every running cost with amount, cycle, payment method and notice period. At the top the monthly total, the yearly total and what comes due in the next 30 days.
- Grouped by category, with a link to the provider's website.
- Notice periods in view before something renews.
- Free manages up to six subscriptions, Premium unlimited.
Operate 18
Read logs where they happen
Free & Premium
Service logs from nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL and the others, live in the app. Plus your own log files, say a project's Laravel log, registered through a file picker and followed live just the same.
- Pick a stream, read the last lines, keep reading in the file.
- Custom logs with a name, clear them any time.
- Free opens the file externally, Premium shows it embedded.
Operate 19
Learn that the client's site is down, before the client
Free & Premium
Uptime, SSL expiry, domain expiry, response times, structured data, Lighthouse and a full SEO audit. Everything runs on your Mac and reports through Notification Centre.
- One project per client, the targets underneath. Problems rise to the top.
- A notification only on a state change, no wall of alerts.
- Free: one project with three targets and the full feature set.
Operate 20
A backup before the update, one that actually comes back
Premium
Back up files and database together, on schedule, with a retention rule. Every run with size and time. And a restore that shows what it will do before it does it.
- One set per project: folders, exclusions and databases belong together.
- Hourly, daily or weekly; old runs are removed by rule.
- Back up now with progress, restore with a choice.
Operate 21
Scheduled tasks with an interface instead of crontab
Free & Premium
Run commands on a cron schedule, with working directory, status, last output and next due time. The Laravel scheduler, a queue worker, a nightly export.
- Run now, pause, resume.
- Last output and exit code right in the list.
- Free: three tasks, Premium unlimited.
Operate 22
Test whole systems without a setup marathon
Free
Virtual machines with QEMU, right in the app. Load an image from the catalogue, enter RAM, cores and disk, start. Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, Fedora and Rocky are included.
- Always the current version, older ones by selection.
- An SSH port per VM, eject the ISO, notes per machine.
- Accelerated on Apple silicon.
Account & Help 23
Your design, your colours
Free & Premium
Aurora Dark and Arctic Light are included. With Premium you build your own themes from base, background and two accent colours, with an icon per theme, and share them in the gallery.
- Four sliders; the app derives the rest in OKLCH.
- Duplicate and adapt presets, import from the clipboard.
- A gallery of community themes; shared ones stay there.
Account & Help 24
The docs are already in
Free
Complete documentation inside the app, in 16 languages. Groups as in the sidebar, topics with subtopics, full-text search across titles and content.
- Search results expand the matching topic.
- Getting started, every page, Premium, Settings.
- Offline, no browser, always matching the installed version.
Bottom of the sidebar 25
Settings you make once
Free
Language, sites folder, container terminal, site browser, debug mode, shims, sandbox, hosts sync, root CA, app backup, service discovery and licence. All on one page, top to bottom.
- 16 languages, switched instantly.
- See the sandbox size, open it in Finder, reset it.
- Enter the licence key, name the device, release the seat.
WebDonkey bundles what usually takes separate apps and subscriptions. We only count money where there is no usable free alternative. Every reference figure is a list price, checked in August 2026.
Over €600 saved a year. And it all runs locally on your Mac, without project or client data going into someone else's cloud.
Already included in Free
We promise you no savings here, much of it exists free and scattered across the web. The point is a different one:
- A complete local server stack: sites, your own domains, HTTPS, PHP and Node versions
- Developer utilities: JSON, regex, diff, encoders, hashes, generators
- PHP scratchpad with your real php.ini, which no website can do
- Colour tool with a screen eyedropper, palettes and contrast checks
- Icon browser with over 200,000 free icons and their licences
- HTML builder for Bootstrap and Tailwind with a live preview
It all runs locally and offline in one place, instead of in twenty browser tabs you paste code and data into. And the PHP sandbox uses your real php.ini with your extensions, which no website can.
People who buy native apps for this pay €150 to €200. You don’t have to — Free costs €0.
Added with Premium
This is the real bill: services that otherwise run as monthly subscriptions, with no free alternative good enough for serious work.
- Mail, database & log viewer right in the app elsewhere the pro upgrade: ~€99/year
- Website monitoring: uptime, SSL & domain expiry, Lighthouse & SEO audits elsewhere from €15/month
- SSH client with terminal & SFTP file manager elsewhere ~€10/month
- Mail testing with a local inbox for all sites elsewhere from €14/month
- Scheduled project backups: folders & databases, with restore elsewhere from €13/month
- API client: saved requests, collections, environments, history elsewhere from €9/month
Included at no extra cost: Obsidian-compatible notes, ready-made project packages, unlimited cron jobs, the global php.ini and a licence seat that travels between your Macs.
As individual subscriptions: roughly €60 per month.
Reference figures are official list prices of typical standalone services in each category, checked in August 2026, deliberately without naming individual vendors. Categories with usable free alternatives are left out of the sum. Scope and limits are in the Free/Premium comparison.
After the purchase your key sits in your customer account. Four steps and Premium is running — the app needs the internet once for this, not permanently afterwards.
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Collect the key from your account
Sign in to the shop and open “My WebDonkey licences”. Your key is there to copy, in the form WD1-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.
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Open Settings in the app
Start WebDonkey and click “Settings” at the bottom of the left sidebar. The “License” section sits right below the app version.
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Paste the key and activate
Paste the key into the field and click “Activate”. The shop confirms it and the badge in the top right switches from “Free” to “Premium”.
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Done — Premium is unlocked
Monitor, Remote/SSH, backups and the other Premium features are available straight away. No restart needed.
The licence covers one installation active at a time. You may install WebDonkey on several Macs — the seat travels with you: quit the app on the old machine and the new one is unlocked at once. If a machine stays quiet for about 15 minutes, the seat is taken over automatically.
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