Canopy
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The facts
Each one read from Canopy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The use-cases page describes workflows for onboarding teammates, running polyglot stacks, managing agency client projects, and monitoring local environments.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Availability
- Canopy is in a limited, invite-only private beta, and testers can request access or join a queue.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CLI
- Canopy says its CLI exposes every UI feature, including project creation, linking, editing, and restarting environments.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Configuration
- Canopy provides a visual nginx configuration editor with syntax highlighting and Save & Reload.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Dev server support
- Canopy can proxy existing Vite, Next, and Nuxt development servers behind a domain and HTTPS.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Frameworks
- Its 12 nginx templates include options for Laravel, PHP, static sites, SPAs, Vite, Node, Django, FastAPI, Flask, and Python.checked 11 Oct 2026
- IDE and terminal integrations
- The app lists VS Code, Cursor, PhpStorm, Terminal.app, iTerm2, Warp, Ghostty, Alacritty, and Kitty as supported IDEs or terminals.checked 11 Oct 2026
- IDE and terminal support
- The app lists VS Code, Cursor, PhpStorm, Terminal.app, iTerm2, Warp, Ghostty, Alacritty, and Kitty for one-click project opening.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Included services
- The site lists PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Typesense, Meilisearch, OpenSearch, Qdrant, RabbitMQ, MinIO, Mailpit, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki among its included services.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- The health dashboard shows host memory and disk, Docker allocations, per-container CPU and memory, and detects configuration drift and restart loops.checked 11 Oct 2026
- PHP
- Canopy provides PHP-FPM versions 8.1–8.5 and per-site PHP version switching.checked 11 Oct 2026
- PHP versions
- The shared services architecture lists versioned PHP-FPM runtimes from 8.1 to 8.5.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Pricing
- The pricing page says pricing is hidden during the private beta.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Canopy is a native macOS app for running local development environments in Docker.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Project setup
- Canopy detects a project's framework and can create its site, database, environment template, SSL certificate, and hosts entry.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- Canopy says the app is notarized by Apple and runs local Docker containers without modifying core system files beyond standard proxy, SSL routing, and hosts file changes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Services
- Canopy includes 16 Docker services, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Typesense, Meilisearch, OpenSearch, RabbitMQ, MinIO, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SSL and CORS
- Canopy can generate trusted local SSL certificates and configure per-site CORS rules.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Canopy lists [email protected] for beta questions and access requests.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Trial
- The use-cases page invites users to start a 14-day trial.checked 11 Oct 2026
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