Its easy to use and pretty straight forward... until it stops working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

Allows me to easily setup Apache, MySQL, PHP on my Mac Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost. Would be better if it was little lower Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

At times it seems a very slow app when it's launching or stopping the applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Very simplified workflow, especially the ability to add extras like WordPress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.