No more cumbersome commands, ServBay increases your efficiency

ServBay is the best alternative to Homebrew, providing an easy-to-use development environment management through a graphical interface. From now on, there’s no need to remember and input complicated command-line instructions or manually modify configurations. Various versions of PHP, Python, and MySQL can coexist, making your project development more flexible.

Download for macOS 12+ & Windows 10+ / Server 2012+
No more cumbersome commands, ServBay increases your efficiency

Built for how you actually develop

Easy to Use

Easy to Use

Time is money. Developers can switch between different versions of PHP, Node.js, and Python freely without needing to redownload them, saving a considerable amount of time. This allows developers to focus on the actual project development rather than wasting time configuring the environment.

Born for Modern Teams

Born for Modern Teams

ServBay has a rich array of packages. Whether for development languages like PHP, Node.js, and Python, or web servers and databases like Caddy, Nginx, and Apache, even Ollama. Even if you know nothing about the command line, you can still set up your entire environment, all in just seconds, greatly increasing team efficiency.

Unified Development Environment

Unified Development Environment

Maintaining consistency in a team’s development environment is a challenge for team managers. ServBay Team’s Unified Configuration helps development teams quickly align their development environments, promoting real-time sharing and collaboration on work outcomes, especially beneficial for agile development teams, making project management and maintenance across the entire team simpler and more efficient.

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ServBay has a complete development ecosystem

As a cornerstone for development, ServBay possesses a complete development ecosystem. Whether it’s development languages like Node.js, Python, web servers like Apache, Caddy, Nginx, or databases like MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, users can use them freely without any restrictions. Moreover, different versions can coexist, supporting various custom configurations to provide developers with more choices.
ServBay has a complete development ecosystem
No Learning Curve, Beginner Friendly

No Learning Curve, Beginner Friendly

All features of ServBay can be used immediately, and there's no need to memorize command lines. Users simply need to click, taking mere seconds to set up various software. Even beginners can accomplish complex feature configurations through the graphical interface.

Auto-upgrade, No Version Conflicts

ServBay can automatically upgrade and safely update; there's no need to uninstall old versions. You can install the latest version with one click, without worrying about version conflicts. Different versions of various software can run simultaneously without concerns about overwriting.
Auto-upgrade, No Version Conflicts

Comparison of ServBay with Homebrew

Functionality
ServBay
Homebrew
Instant switching between different software versions ✓ ⚠️ Manual
User-friendly ✓ ✗
Easy backup ✓ ✗
Beginner-friendly ✓ ✗
OpenSSL ✓ ⚠️ Manual
PKI System ✓ ✗
Built-in DNS server ✓ ⚠️ Manual
LLM (Ollama) ✓ ✗

We have served countless excellent developers

"Our development team uses ServBay Pro; whether it’s onboarding new members or adding new services, the process has never been smoother."

Dave Wright @ Full Stack Freelancer

"ServBay freed me from the hassle of Brew."

monday_morning @ Python Developer

"Thanks for this amazing software! I really like it and wish to use it to replace Homebrew, as it is very flexible."

Ryan @ PHP Intern

"ServBay is easy to use and deploys websites easily; overall, it is very beginner friendly."

Giuseppe Pavan @ Senior Backend Engineer

"Thanks again for your great work. I use it daily in all my macOS setups, making development on macOS much easier."

James00 @ Software and Generative AI Engineer

"ServBay alleviated the stress of manually setting up each PHP framework, especially Laravel!"

Luke Martinelli @ Project Manager

Detailed feature comparison between ServBay and Homebrew

Features\Products
ServBay
ServBay Pro
ServBay Team
Homebrew
Pricing
Pricing
Free
$59 (Edu Plan: $29)
$399.00
Free
Free Trial
/
7 days
/
/
Licensed Users
/
1
10
/
Licensed Device
/
2/User
2/User
/
Additional User License
/
/
✓
/
Additional User Pricing (per user)
/
/
$39.90
/
Features
macOS Support
✓
✓
✓
✓
Native macOS App
Swift + SwiftUI
Swift + SwiftUI
Swift + SwiftUI
/
Supports macOS system versions
macOS 12+
macOS 12+
macOS 12+
/
Windows support
✓
✓
✓
✗
Native Windows Application
C# + AvaloniaUI
C# + AvaloniaUI
C# + AvaloniaUI
/
Supports Windows system versions
Windows 10/11 & Windows Server 2012+
Windows 10/11 & Windows Server 2012+
Windows 10/11 & Windows Server 2012+
/
Installer Size
50 MB
50 MB
50 MB
N/A
Upgradeable Package
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Security Updates
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Operating System
Non-intrusive Installation
✓
✓
✓
✗
Launch at Login
✓
✓
✓
✗
Start with System
✓
✓
✓
✓
CLI Support
✓
✓
✓
✓
GUI Interface
System Resource Monitor Panel
✓
✓
✓
✗
Quick Control / Menu Bar
✓
✓
✓
✗
Service Control Panel
✓
✓
✓
✗
Multilingual
✓
✓
✓
✗
User-friendly Application
✓
✓
✓
✗
Configurable via GUI
✓
✓
✓
✗
Easy Backup
✓
✓
✓
✗
Website Grouping
✗
✓
✓
/
Web Servers
Apache
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
NGINX
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Caddy
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Websites / Hosts
Configurable via GUI
✓
✓
✓
✗
Multiple Websites
✓
✓
✓
✓
Max Websites
5
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Custom Domains
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Custom Ports
✗
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Custom SSL Certificate
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Custom TLD
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Multiple Domains / Aliases
✗
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Selectable PHP Version
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
URL Rewrite (Pseudo-static)
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
CORS Support
✗
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Static Site Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Reverse Proxy
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Docker/Node.js Proxy
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Redirect (301/302)
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
SSL Support
PKI
✗
✓
✓
✗
ACME Certificate
✗
✓
✓
✗
ACME Auto-Renewal
✗
✓
✓
✗
ACME - Let's Encrypt
✗
✓
✓
✗
ACME - ZeroSSL
✗
✓
✓
✗
ACME - Google Trust Services
✗
✓
✓
✗
Self-signed SSL
✓
✓
✓
✗
ServBay Private CA
✓
✓
✓
✗
Private Domain Certificate
10
Unlimited
Unlimited
✗
Private S/MIME Certificate
2
10
30
✗
Private Code Signing Certificate
✗
2
10
✗
Private Document Signing Certificate
✗
5
30
✗
ServBay Public CA
✗
✓
✓
✗
Public Domain Certificate
✗
20
100
✗
Public S/MIME Certificate
✗
10
30
✗
Public Code Signing Certificate
✗
1
5
✗
Public Document Signing Certificate
✗
5
30
✗
Programming Languages
PHP Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Multiple PHP Versions
5.3 ~ 8.6
5.3 ~ 8.6
5.3 ~ 8.6
8.0 / 8.1 / 8.2 / 8.3
PHP 8.4
✓
✓
✓
✓
PHP 8.5
✓
✓
✓
✓
Multiple PHP Instances
✓
✓
✓
✗
Instant PHP Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
Node.js Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Node.js 22
✓
✓
✓
✓
Node.js 23
✓
✓
✓
✓
Multiple Node.js Versions
12 ~ 25
12 ~ 25
12 ~ 25
14/16/18/20/21/22
Instant Node.js Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
Bun supported
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Deno Supported
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Python 2.x
✓
✓
✓
✓
Python 3.x
✓
✓
✓
✓
Multiple Python Versions
2.7 & 3.5 ~ 3.14
2.7 & 3.5 ~ 3.14
2.7 & 3.5 ~ 3.14
/
Instant Python Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
Go Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Multiple Go Versions
1.11 ~ 1.26
1.11 ~ 1.26
1.11 ~ 1.26
/
Instant Go Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
Java Support
✓
✓
✓
✗
Multiple Java Versions
7(1.7.0) ~ 25
7(1.7.0) ~ 25
7(1.7.0) ~ 25
/
Instant Java Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
.NET Support
✓
✓
✓
✗
Multiple .NET Versions
2.0 ~ 10.0
2.0 ~ 10.0
2.0 ~ 10.0
/
Instant .NET Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
Mono Support
✓
✓
✓
✗
Multiple Mono Versions
6.x
6.x
6.x
/
Ruby Support
✓
✓
✓
✗
Multiple Ruby Versions
2.4 ~ 4.0
2.4 ~ 4.0
2.4 ~ 4.0
/
Instant Ruby Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
Rust Support
✓
✓
✓
✗
Multiple Rust Versions
1.x
1.x
1.x
/
Databases
MySQL Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Multiple MySQL Versions
5.1 ~ 9.6
5.1 ~ 9.6
5.1 ~ 9.6
⚠️Manual
Multiple MySQL Instances
✗
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Instant MySQL Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
MariaDB Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Multiple MariaDB Versions
10.4 ~ 12.1
10.4 ~ 12.1
10.4 ~ 12.1
❗️Limited
Multiple MariaDB Instances
✗
✓
✓
❗️Limited
Instant MariaDB Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
PostgreSQL Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Multiple PostgreSQL Versions
10 ~ 18
10 ~ 18
10 ~ 18
✓
Multiple PostgreSQL Instances
✗
✓
✓
✓
Instant PostgreSQL Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
MongoDB Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Multiple MongoDB Versions
5.0 ~ 8.2
5.0 ~ 8.2
5.0 ~ 8.2
/
Multiple MongoDB Instances
✗
✓
✓
/
Instant MongoDB Version Switching
✓
✓
✓
✗
Redis Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Memcached Support
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
SQLite 3
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
AI
Ollama
✓
✓
✓
✓
Multi-threaded Model Download
✗
✓
✓
✗
AI Gateway
✓
✓
✓
✗
MCP Server
✓
✓
✓
✗
AI Client Integration
✓
✓
✓
✗
Mail Server
Built-in Mail Server
✗
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
SSL/TLS
✗
✓
✓
✗
STARTTLS
✗
✓
✓
✗
SMTP
✗
✓
✓
✗
POP3
✗
✓
✓
✗
Mail Relay
✗
✓
✓
✗
Webhook
✗
✓
✓
✗
SpamAssassin
✗
✓
✓
✗
DNS
Built-in DNS Server
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Custom Domains
5
Unlimited
Unlimited
✗
hosts File Management GUI
✗
✓
✓
✗
Domain Resolution via /etc/hosts
✓
✓
✓
✗
Domain Resolution via Local Built-in DNS Server
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Tunnels / Reverse Proxy
ServBay
✗
✓
✓
✗
Cloudflared
✗
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
FRP
✗
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Ngrok
✗
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Pinggy.io
✗
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Search Engine
Typesense
✗
✓
✓
✗
Meilisearch
✗
✓
✓
✗
Object Storage
MinIO
✗
✓
✓
✗
Tools
phpMyAdmin
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Adminer
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Git
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
SVN (Subversion)
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
OpenSSL
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Composer 2.2 LTS
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
Composer
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
cURL
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
npm
✓
✓
✓
⚠️Manual
pnpm
✓
✓
✓
N/A
yarn
✓
✓
✓
N/A
Apache Maven
✓
✓
✓
N/A
Customization
Project-level Custom Configuration
✓
✓
✓
/
Custom PHP Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
PHP FPM Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
PHP Extension Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
Node.js Settings
✓
✓
✓
/
Python Settings
✓
✓
✓
/
Redis Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
Memcached Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
MySQL Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
MariaDB Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
PostgreSQL Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
MongoDB Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
Email Server Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
Ollama Settings
✗
✓
✓
/
Backup
Backup to External Storage
✗
✓
✓
/
Automatic Scheduled Backup
✗
✓
✓
/
Scheduled Backup - Daily
✗
✓
✓
/
Scheduled Backup - Weekly
✗
✓
✓
/
Scheduled Backup - Monthly
✗
✓
✓
/
Manual Backup
✗
✓
✓
/
Manual Backup Restore
✗
✓
✓
/
ServBay Configuration
✗
✓
✓
/
Website
✗
✓
✓
/
Single / Multiple Websites
✗
✓
✓
/
SSL Certificate
✗
✓
✓
/
Single / Multiple SSL Certificates
✗
✓
✓
/
MySQL
✗
✓
✓
/
Multiple MySQL Servers
✗
✓
✓
/
Single / Multiple MySQL Databases
✗
✓
✓
/
MariaDB
✗
✓
✓
/
Multiple MariaDB Servers
✗
✓
✓
/
Single / Multiple MariaDB Databases
✗
✓
✓
/
PostgreSQL
✗
✓
✓
/
Multiple PostgreSQL Servers
✗
✓
✓
/
Single / Multiple PostgreSQL Databases
✗
✓
✓
/
Development Tools
Development Libraries
✓
✓
✓
/
Recompilation Support
✓
✓
✓
✓
Additional PHP Extension Compilation
✓
✓
✓
N/A
Team
Team Management
✗
✗
✓
✗
Share To Team
✗
✗
Coming Soon
✗
Unified Configuration
✗
✗
Coming Soon
✗
Virtual Dev Network
✗
✗
Coming Soon
✗
Support
AI Assistant
✓
✓
✓
✗
Self-service Diagnostic Tool
✓
✓
✓
✗
Documentation
✓
✓
✓
✗
Community
✓
✓
✓
✓
Email
✗
✓
✓
✗
Paid Support
✗
✓
✓
✗
Discord
✓
✓
✓
N/A
Telegram
✓
✓
✓
N/A
WhatsApp
✗
✓
✓
N/A
Line
✗
✓
✓
N/A
WeCom
✗
✓
✓
N/A
WeChat Group
✓
✓
✓
N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have more questions, please visit the Help Center.
Does ServBay support macOS 12?

ServBay supports macOS 12.0 Monterey or later. Homebrew has stopped supporting macOS 12 Monterey, so developers will face increasing restrictions when using brew commands. ServBay, however, treats all macOS versions equally.

My production environment is complex; can ServBay handle it?

ServBay not only supports multiple PHP, Node.js, and Python versions, various databases, web servers, and a range of built-in tools and features, but also enables these to run safely and simultaneously. Users can easily switch between them with just one click. No matter how complex the environment, ServBay can handle it with ease.

Should I use ServBay or Homebrew?

Most features of Homebrew require manual configuration, while many of ServBay's functions are automatically built in, needing just a simple click to install without manual configuration. When combined with IDEs like vscode, developers can immediately dive into coding.

What packages does ServBay support?

ServBay boasts a rich array of packages supporting various versions of PHP (from PHP 5.6 to PHP 8.5-dev), Node.js (from Node.js 12 to Node.js 23), and Python, as well as SQL databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, MariaDB, and Redis, along with web servers like Caddy, Apache, Nginx. Users can run these simultaneously and freely choose appropriate software for their projects.

I'm a beginner; is ServBay easy to use?

There's no need to worry at all. ServBay features a powerful GUI, allowing developers to stack the modules they need like building LEGO, achieving zero code and zero configuration right out of the box. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned developer, setting up your required services is straightforward.

Is ServBay suitable for team usage?

Of course! The design of ServBay aims to help teams create consistent and easy-to-maintain development environments. With ServBay Team’s Unified Configuration feature, team managers can deploy configurations with one click, unifying the development environment of the entire team and minimizing differences in the team’s development environment and code.

The Next Generation Development Tool

1 app, 2 clicks, and 3 minutes are all you need to set up your web development environment. No need to compile and install dependencies, non-intrusive to the system. Includes various versions of programming languages, databases, domain names, SSL certificates, email servers, and reverse proxies.

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