Everything it does, in plain words

Konsole keeps your website safe on your computer and takes it to your server when you say so.

Your site, on your computer

Everything here works on the free plan, for up to 3 sites.

Konsole's New site window with the name Bloom Florist
  • A new site in a few clicks

    Give it a name and Konsole sets up WordPress, the database and an address like bloom-florist.localhost. No hosts file, no admin password.

    Free
  • Plugins, themes and users

    Install, update and switch them from Konsole, or straight from the wordpress.org directory.

    Free
  • Security warnings

    Konsole checks your plugins, themes and WordPress itself against public security databases and tells you which version fixes each problem.

    Free
  • Restore points

    One click saves the files and the database. Go back whenever an experiment goes wrong.

    1 per site free
  • Emails stay on your computer

    Contact forms and shop orders send their emails to a private inbox in Konsole, never to real people.

    Free
  • Into WordPress in one click

    Open the dashboard already logged in. No passwords to remember.

    Free
  • The database, without phpMyAdmin

    Import, export and browse it. Addresses are fixed for you when you bring a site in.

    Free
  • Show the client

    Share a public link to the site on your computer while you keep it on.

    1 h a day free
  • An assistant for the boring parts

    Ask it to update plugins, add users or find an error. It works with your own AI account.

    20 a day free

The road to your server

For people who look after real websites. Pro, with a 7-day free trial.

Konsole's Add environment window with protocol choices SSH, SFTP, FTPS and FTP
  • Bring a live site home

    Connect over FTP, FTPS, SFTP or SSH. Konsole copies the files and the database and fixes the addresses so the copy runs on your computer.

    Pro
  • Your saved servers, already there

    Konsole can read the connections you saved in FileZilla, WinSCP or your SSH settings.

    Pro
  • Send changes back

    See the list of files before anything is uploaded, then send only what changed. A dry run comes first if you want one.

    Pro
  • Pull the latest from the server

    Get the live files or database back onto your copy when the client changed something.

    Pro
  • Clone a site

    Make a twin of a site to try something bigger without touching the first one.

    Pro
  • Unlimited sites and restore points

    No limits on how many sites you keep or how many restore points each one has.

    Pro

If you are a developer

The same app, with the parts you'd look for.

Harbor Bakery's overview in Konsole: its address, WordPress and PHP version, admin login and recent activity
Two ways to run a site
Docker with plain Compose files you can read, or native, with no Docker at all. Pick per site. Docker sites run on Docker Desktop, OrbStack or Konsole Engine, Konsole's own Docker, which needs neither.
Stacks
WordPress, PHP, Laravel, Symfony, Drupal and static sites. PHP 8.1 to 8.4 per site, Xdebug on Docker sites.
Addresses
Every site answers at name.localhost. No hosts file edits, no admin password.
Servers
Environments over SSH, SFTP, FTP and FTPS with push, pull, deploy and a dry run first. Git built in.
Terminal and AI agents
A konsole command line and an MCP server, so Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI can work on your local sites.

Try it on one of your sites

Download

Free for 3 sites on your computer. Bringing sites from a server and sending them back is Pro, with a 7-day free trial.