Monitor and manage
your PHP installations
with ease.

PHP Monitor (”phpmon”) is a lightweight, native Mac menu bar app that interacts with Laravel Valet.

Sponsor GitHub Download

PHP Monitor helps you set up and develop Laravel and Symfony projects. It's also great for WordPress or Drupal sites. In fact, it's a great companion for all kinds of projects.

This app is made with ♥ by Nico Verbruggen. It is open source and entirely free to use. Further development of this app is supported by your donations.

PHP Monitor builds upon the excellent Laravel Valet. That means that PHP Monitor builds upon a solid and trusted foundation. If you've already got that installed, it's easy to get started.

PHP Monitor lives in your menu bar. From here, you can use the bulk of PHP Monitor's functionality, including the global version switcher as well as services status section.

Sometimes you need to edit a configuration file or toggle an extension. But where are those pesky config files located again? From the PHP Monitor's menu you can easily find them. Extensions can even be toggled with one click of the button!

Do you have many projects or legacy sites? No worries, the app includes a domain list that you can use to get a quick overview of all domains and proxies you have set up, as well as their PHP version, what type of project they are, and more.

You can easily link or proxy a folder: you can even easily customize the name of the domain and secure this new domain by simply checking a box. This will make these projects accessible as *.test domains on your system.

In addition to offering a global version switcher (which switches the PHP version for all of your projects), this app also includes support for Valet's site isolation feature. This allows you to use a specific version of PHP with a specific domain, all while retaining the globally linked PHP version.

PHP Monitor will help you figure out if your sites are compatible with the currently linked version of PHP. You will receive suggestions when site isolation may be of use.

Laravel Valet is a lightweight solution that is much leaner than Docker, and PHP Monitor as a companion tool uses equally few system resources. It is light on RAM and its CPU usage is negligible.

No tracking. No bullshit. Nothing to worry about. The only outbound connection PHP Monitor makes is a check (that you can disable!) to see if a newer version is available. If you encounter a bug or crash, please get in touch—I'd be happy to help you out.

PHP Monitor will only ask you to donate once, and should never ask you again... unless you install a fresh copy of the app on a new computer, of course. If you can, please do consider sending me some money!