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DevKinsta Reviews & Product Details

Your Free Local WordPress Development Suite Design, develop, and deploy WordPress sites from the comfort of your local machine. DevKinsta is free forever, and available for macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu. Used by more than 22,000 developers, web designers, and freelancers. Watch a webinar about DevKinsta at kinsta.com/webinars.

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Kinsta

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Danish, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

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DevKinsta Demo - Create local environments

Launch WordPress sites, including multisites, with a single click! Every DevKinsta site is powered by a modern hosting stack plus the latest version of WordPress Core.

DevKinsta Demo - Test and debug new ideas

You’ll also get access to powerful tools like a built-in database manager, SMTP server, WP_DEBUG toggle, and more. Use DevKinsta to test your site with the latest version of PHP in a safe environment. DevKinsta supports PHP 7.2-8.0, and you can switch versions with just a few clicks. If your proj...

DevKinsta Demo - Deploy your site to your Kinsta account

Download your live site, work on it offline, and push it back to your Kinsta staging environment. Full integration with MyKinsta means you can easily merge DevKinsta into your current workflow.

Being able to pull sites hosted with Kinsta, push them to staging, and create a local environment has made my life so much easier. Reviewing plugins/themes and endlessly putting them on domains is now a thing of the past. Even if you're not hosting with Kinsta, I'd recommend the tool.

DevKinsta Demo - Paul Andrew (Speckyboy)

I tried it... and loved it! I was still setting up my local environment using XAMPP, like a cavemen! It's a game-changer for me.

DevKinsta Demo - Eric Karkovack (Speckyboy)

If you're a Kinsta customer, you'll love the added convenience DevKinsta provides. There's no need to mess with complicated export plugins. This will seriously streamline your workflow.

DevKinsta Reviews (12)

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Alex F.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/9/2024

"DevKinsta experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

When i started to build my website devkinsta provided free and powerful way to build my website. its is easy to use and gives multiple tools for website development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

I didnt experience any major problems while using devkinsta. Offcourse there is always something small in everything but devkinsta provided what it promised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fer G.

Consultor de Marketing Digital - Desarrollador Web

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/10/2022

"Package to develop a simple WordPress page with good tools"

4/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

The best thing about using the developer is its simplicity, immediacy, and how economical and easy it is. Additionally, they provide you with effective tools for managing your own email and databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

What I miss is a bit of lack of freedom if what you like is programming and customizing your work and projects. Also, it is not as effective in terms of positioning and SEO as would be noteworthy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DevKinsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

If what you need is a simple website without too many development complications, and if it's already easy for your clients to find you and you don't need to do SEO, this solution is very useful. If you want to launch your project from scratch in the market, you might need another system or a professional to do it for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raquel D.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/29/2022

"Simplicity for local development"

4.5/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

DevKinsta is a very simple tool with which you can build, test, and deploy WordPress sites in a very fast and hassle-free way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

I have an old Mac computer and Docker runs a bit slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Óscar M.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/31/2022

"Your easy and professional local WordPress testing environment"

5/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

Being able to create a WordPress website quickly and easily locally, and also, if you use Kinsta, upload it to the server easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

I still haven't found something that I like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raúl M.

estudiante de turismo y diseño páginas web

Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/23/2022

"tool that speeds up a lot when creating web pages"

4/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

The ease it provides when modifying plugins on your website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

The amount of space it requires on the hard drive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keith E.

Web Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/16/2021

"Simple and solid way to test web development locally"

4.5/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

It's very easy to spin up a site and test out new ideas, develop new sites or components or test updates before launching a site or making major changes to functionality and not worry about breaking anything. Importing a Kinsta hosted website is just a couple clicks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

It does use Docker, so you'll need a computer with plenty of resources. More of a Docker issue than an app issue, though. I had the same issue with Local (by Flywheel). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering DevKinsta:

Make sure you have a computer with plenty of processing power. Otherwise you'll probably be better off using an online server. Also, plan out where you will store you website files so you don't end up with duplicates, or worse - losing them if you end up deleting the site. You can find this in the dashboard though.

If you aren't using Kinsta hosting, be sure you check the specs of the server you will be hosting on to make sure they are set up the same. (PHP version, Database, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DevKinsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

For most development these days, it is easy and cheap enough to spin up a site directly on your hosting server, but for testing and just designing website components, that can still be a waste. It also doesn't work well if you have slow wifi or no internet access at all. I can start designs for long projects locally; then when I'm ready to start involving the client or other devs, it is easy enough to migrate the site to a live server.

It is also easy to test updates like PHP and new WordPress versions in the same environment so you know they will actually work when moved to the live site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tim C.

Website and Wordpress Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/6/2021

"Very useful, but can be a bit tricky to get it set up."

3.5/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

DevKinsta gives me the ability to develop websites locally, quickly, and efficiently. It's easy to use. Open the application, and it checks to make sure it has everything it needs to run correctly; you're off and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

As easy as it is to use, it took some effort to get it set up and running correctly. I had to install and uninstall multiple times to get everything working, and I had a hard time finding much help online for the issues I was having. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chad M.

Freelance Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/29/2021

"WordPress Development Environment for Linux!"

5/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

I think the most valuable part of DevKinsta is that everything you need to build a WordPress website is part of DevKinsta. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

This isn't a dislike, but I would love to see a version for .rpm-based Linux distributions that doesn't require the manual install and configuration of Docker. Right now, the .deb-based release installs Docker for you. But, as I mentioned, this isn't a negative, and I believe that as DevKinsta on Linux becomes more popular, this will happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/3/2022

"Product Review - DevKinsta"

3.5/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

The tool is open-source which means I can use it for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

DevKinsta doesn’t currently support Apache Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rick C.

Junior Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/30/2021

"Quick & easy"

5/5

What do you like best about DevKinsta?

- One-click downloads to get a live site onto your local machine means you have more time to complete the task e.g code changes, updates etc

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What do you dislike about DevKinsta?

there isn't a way to share local sites with trusted colleagues but they have said this may become a feature!

I also would like to have the option of pushing the local site straight to staging, rather than having to create a staging in the dashboard, then pushing local to staging after it's created. it confused me at first until I read the knowledgebase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.