Lokal

All your local servers, one click from running.

Lokal is a macOS app that starts, stops and watches the development servers you run every day. No more hunting through Terminal tabs to find which one died.

Download for macOS Free · macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

Every dev server in one window

Add each project once with its folder, command and environment variables. Group them by product, start a whole group together, and see at a glance which ones are running, idle or crashed.

Logs that survive a restart

Each run's output is saved, so you can read what a server printed before it died, even after you've restarted it or relaunched Lokal. A combined console shows a group's output in one stream.

Know when something crashes

A macOS notification tells you when a process exits with an error. Lokal also understands watchers like nodemon, flagging a crash the moment it's reported and clearing it when the watcher restarts.

Ports and PATH, handled

Commands run with the PATH from your login shell, so nvm, pyenv and friends resolve like they do in Terminal. If an old process still holds a port, Force Start frees it before launching.

Ready when you are

Mark projects to start automatically when Lokal opens, or start and stop everything with one shortcut. Quitting Lokal shuts down every server it started, so nothing lingers.

The same list on every Mac

Your projects sync through iCloud, while logs stay on the Mac that produced them. Export a project as JSON to share a setup with a teammate, or import theirs.

How it works

  1. 1

    Add a project

    Pick the folder and type the command you'd run in Terminal, like npm run dev or php artisan serve.

  2. 2

    Press Start

    The project turns green and its output streams into the console. Use ⌘R to start everything at once.

  3. 3

    Keep working

    Lokal watches the processes. Stop, restart or read past logs whenever you need them.

Nothing leaves your Mac but your project list.

Lokal has no accounts, no analytics and no server of its own. The only things it ever sends anywhere are your project names, folders and commands, to your own iCloud account so your other Macs see the same list. Logs never leave the machine that produced them.

Get Lokal.

Free · macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · Updates itself

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