Make room for PXM.

After downloading.

1. 1
   Open the disk image and drag PXM into Applications.
2. 2
   Open PXM. Start with Free, or enter your Pro license key.
3. 3
   Approve the background helper when macOS asks.

   It is what makes .test addresses work.

4. 4
   Link your first project and choose its PHP or Node version.

What Free includes.

• Sites with .test addresses and local HTTPS
• PHP 8.2 to 8.5, Node, and Composer
• Laravel creation
• Project tasks
• SPX profiling
• Cloudflare sharing
• The pxm command line and runtime shims

What Pro adds.

• 12 service engines and database adoption
• WordPress creation with its own MySQL
• Mail, Dumps, and Insights
• Xdebug, Tinker, pxm debug and coverage
• Capture commands
• The MCP server for AI agents

Compare the plans

Set up your terminal.

Choose Set Up Terminal in the app for a reviewed change to zsh, bash, or fish. Prefer to do it yourself? Add this line to your shell profile:

That puts pxm and the eight shims for php, node, npm, npx, composer, corepack, laravel, and cpx on your path. Read the command reference.

Updates you approve.

PXM checks an Ed25519-signed Sparkle feed and tells you when a new version is ready. You choose when to install it. Checking the PHP and Node catalogs never installs or switches a runtime.

Verify your download.

The SHA-256 digest for PXM 0.2.0 is:

Compare it with the output of shasum -a 256 on the file you downloaded.

Open the getting-started guide · Read the changelog