--- title: MAMP Reviews meta\_title: 'MAMP Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 51 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how MAMP works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 51 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # MAMP Reviews & Product Details MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it MacBook or iMac. * * * Seller [appsolute GmbH](https://www.g2.com/sellers/appsolute-gmbh) Discussions [MAMP Community](https://www.g2.com/products/mamp/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement \<1 month ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/mamp/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Okta](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Okta") Okta 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) [ ![Termius](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Termius") Termius 4.8/5(268) ](https://www.g2.com/products/termius/reviews) [ ![SAP Fiori](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAP Fiori") SAP Fiori 4.3/5(207) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-fiori/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/mamp/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 51 real user reviews. Implementation Time \<1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/16/2019 "Not a Fan" 1/5 What do you like best about MAMP? Its easy to use and pretty straight forward... until it stops working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? The SQL server would stop running. It happened to me twice already and both times near completion of the website. I tried all the online forums and googled answers but nothing got it to run again and I had to restart the whole entire website. Just wanted to warn anyone trying to run it. First time my laptop died and it was my fault. Supposedly the databases crash if your computer dies. I tried everything to recover it didnt work. Happened again with properly turning off the databases everytime. I gave up on this program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? No benefits I have seen Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/4/2019 "Must Have for Web Developers" 4.5/5 What do you like best about MAMP? Allows me to easily setup Apache, MySQL, PHP on my Mac Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? The cost. Would be better if it was little lower Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? Able to test and develop locally on my Mac. The benefit is I don't have to push code to a server to test/view a project I am working on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SM Steven M. Co-Founder & CTO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/8/2018 "love the simplicity of one app" 4.5/5 What do you like best about MAMP? I like that you can setup an apache/mysql/php stack very easily. I also like that you can provision sites from the UI without having to go in the apache settings, and use different versions of php in each site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? At times it seems a very slow app when it's launching or stopping the applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MAMP: UI design could be better. I don't like the upgrade options that we have to pay every so often for a new version of the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? It lets our developers quickly come up to speed by having a unified enviroment with multiple sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Design](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Design") UD Verified User in Design Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/1/2018 "So easy to get a local server up and running" 5/5 What do you like best about MAMP? The simple interface makes getting a server up and running so simple. A click of a button gets your Apache and MySQL servers running, and then you've got a folder where all your 'sites' can live. Everything is customizable, so if you're more familiar with server stuff, then you can set it up however you like. But if you're not, MAMP make it really easy to get your site up and running locally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? It's an extra app to have loaded on your machine. There's not much to dislike, it's a simple product that does what it's supposed to really well. I'm sure if you're more server-savvy, then this might be a bit basic, but for us front-end devs, it's pretty sweet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MAMP: Use this if you're not super comfortable with servers in general. Really easy to set up and use, and if you are more server-savvy, all of the settings are customizable, just like any other type of server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? I use MAMP daily. All my sites in development run on it, as well as any sites that are getting updated. Simple, easy to use, would recommend for simpler sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Luke D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Luke D.") LD Luke D. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/19/2018 "Straight forward and productive" 5/5 What do you like best about MAMP? I like how easy it is to get sites up and running with access to a MySQL database and a PHP dashboard. The software allows you to specify where your websites are located. You can easily drop WAR files into the source location and they will automatically be unpacked and displayed. I also enjoyed the MySQL database and functionality. The setup is so fast and easy to get running that there is little to no reason why you would choose anything else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? The startup web page could use a little work to bring it up to the modern look of the rest of the application. For as elegant and well designed the rest of the application is designed, you would think that the main website that lists all of your resources would be designed a little better. It looks as plain as the simple version that ships with Apache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MAMP: It helps to have a basic understanding of all the technologies that are brought together by MAMP. You should be capable of running SQL queries and commands, but the PHP Admin console provided will automatically script them for you if you don't have any experience with that. MAMP also allows you to specify the location of your sites folder in case you already have one set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? I can easily deploy multiple Wordpress website versions and spin up different databases that can be exported easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/29/2018 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chris H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chris H.") CH Chris H. Vice President of Operations & Senior Software Developer Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/18/2018 "Easy server management for dev or production" 5/5 What do you like best about MAMP? I've used MAMP pro in two distinct ways... 1) to start my development servers on my dev machine and 2) to run a home server and host multiple websites. MAMP handled both perfectly. Setup is simple and all you need to do is check a few boxes to get a server up-and-running. There's no other solution for getting a Mac server up and running quicker. Especially if you don't want to mess around with the native APACHE setups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? You are not allowed to setup a wildcard alias on a domain name. This is my largest gripe about the software. Sometimes it's useful to be able to setup a single host and just point all traffic no matter the subdomain to it. MAMP will not allow that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MAMP: When you get MAMP Pro setup point your directory to a better one than the default within it's application folder. Much better to manage when the folder is simpler to find and similar to a server setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? MAMP solves the need for multiple developers to get a development environment setup quickly and also manage that environment easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Tim C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tim C.") TC Tim C. Website and Wordpress Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/28/2018 "MAMP is incredibly useful for working locally." 4/5 What do you like best about MAMP? I like how fast and easy MAMP is to use. It makes developing database websites a quick and fairly painless process. You simply open the application and you're good to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? There isn't really anything I dislike about MAMP. If I had to pick something I would probably say it can be a little difficult to understand the file locations if you're looking to customize any of the PHP or Apache settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MAMP: If you're looking for a quick and easy solution for local development that requires MySQL and Apache, then MAMP is definitely a good choice. It will require some research if you need to change any of your custom PHP.ini settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? I use MAMP for local development. It makes it very easy to develop locally. I like the fact that I do not have to wait for files to upload to the server to see the changes I've made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Richard M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Richard M.") RM Richard M. Operations Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/8/2017 "Well Written Web Development Stack" 4.5/5 What do you like best about MAMP? The are a lot of environments you can set up from this one app. You can choose Apache or Nginx for your server, many different versions of PHP, PHP accelerators and it does a fairly good job controlling your hosts file. You can even preinstall a nice selection of common web platforms from WordPress to Magento and Drupal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? You can run into difficulties with competing versions of PHP, Perl or Ruby on your local machine via the command line and it may require some voodoo to get things straight. As with all of these stack apps, DNS cache can make some installations balky unless you clear DNS cache which can be different for different versions of Mac OS. None of this is a crisis and can be solved easily with a look around Stack Exchange. Also, there aren't nearly as many different packages for easy install as AMPPS for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MAMP: For Mac, MAMP Pro is very solid. AMPPS is free, though, and can pretty much be horsed into doing much of what MAMP can do. If you are just playing with this kind of thing, try AMPPS first and see if it is something you'll be spending a lot of time on. I like MAMP for its thoroughness and can make it do what I need it to although I wish I didn't have to know so much command line stuff to make it play nicely with the Mac's own versions of PHP, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? This is my go to for getting sites to beta stage. I have also used MAMP to migrate large data sets from obsolete CMS's to something like Drupal or WordPress. I like that you can change the PHP versions easily so you can closely mimmic your web host. One especially difficult thing I work with is testing Drupal and getting it to behave with Drupal Commerce. This can take a lot of command line coupled with playing with code. Likewise, I have been testing Magento's latest offerings and getting used to the much more command line driven approach it has. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/2/2018 "MAMP PRO Worth every penny" 5/5 What do you like best about MAMP? Very simplified workflow, especially the ability to add extras like WordPress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? Sometimes buggy - There have been a few occasions that I've had to kill my mamp install and reinstall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MAMP: I've considered using other tools, but I've not seen any tool that advertises features I would need that MAMP PRO does not provide to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? MAMP Pro has simplified our workflow by allowing us to quickly create and share projects within our network. This is great for workflow on local sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/23/2018 "Great app for managing local web projects" 4.5/5 What do you like best about MAMP? This is such an easy system to make an Apache and PHP environment accessible and usable. Instead of having to edit system files directly, this allows for super easy configuration of ports for all my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MAMP? Some of the settings are a bit ill-defined, or in an unexpected place. It can take a little bit of time to get oriented to where everything is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MAMP: Excellent option for those who do not want to spend the time (or KNOW how to spend time) in system files to set up test website environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MAMP solving and how is that benefiting you? MAMP let's me test out the various server-side pieces of my websites locally with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about MAMP? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about MAMP ](https://www.g2.com/products/mamp/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is MAMP used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-mamp-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/mamp/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement \<1 month ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/mamp/pricing) MAMP Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_b3ddc97808eba7070858084e6bdc599b/mirantis-kubernetes-engine-formerly-docker-enterprise.png "Product Avatar Image") Mirantis 4.4/5(286) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/mamp-vs-mirantis-kubernetes-engine-formerly-docker-enterprise) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_6ea8cb7543ad05ad4f09ff38900bbaf7/mariadb.gif "Product Avatar Image") MariaDB 4.4/5(226) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/mamp-vs-mariadb) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_54f7fea54db13629092af1a40cd0a6fa/wampserver.png "Product Avatar Image") WampServer 4.3/5(40) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/mamp-vs-wampserver) ## Work at appsolute GmbH? Claim this profile to respond to reviews, update product info, and reach in-market buyers. [ Claim this profile ](https://www.g2.com/products/mamp/claim_requests/new?utm_medium=profile-footer-claim-cta&utm_source=g2) ##### Categories on G2 [Other Development](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-development) ##### Explore More [What content curation tools integrate with team messaging platforms, LinkedIn, and employee advocacy tools without feature inconsistencies?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-content-curation-tools-integrate-with-team-messaging-platforms-linkedin-and-employee-advocacy-tools-without-feature-inconsistencies)[Which CLM platforms are best for mid-market organizations that need real-time visibility into contract status across the team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-clm-platforms-are-best-for-mid-market-organizations-that-need-real-time-visibility-into-contract-status-across-the-team)[Which consumer insights software is the most accurate for tracking changing customer preferences across multiple countries for a brand managing research across several markets simultaneously?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-consumer-insights-software-is-the-most-accurate-for-tracking-changing-customer-preferences-across-multiple-countries-for-a-brand-managing-research-across-several-markets-simultaneously%20) [What is the best payroll software for small businesses?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-payroll-software-for-small-businesses)[Best chatbots for customer engagement tools](https://www.g2.com/discussions/chatbots-what-are-the-best-chatbots-for-customer-engagement-tools)[Best-rated software for managing virtual communities](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-best-rated-software-for-managing-virtual-communities) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)