Ark
Every stack. One click. No Docker.
£79 per year · 2 devices per licence
$ ark link
✓ my-app linked → https://my-app.test
✓ runtime detected: php 8.5 · services: postgres 17
✓ TLS trusted · DNS resolved · ready in 1.2s
One tool for the whole team
Get Ark
The latest release, served straight from our CDN. Ark installs the runtimes and services each project needs on demand.
Ark is not code-signed yet, so macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen will warn the first time you launch it. Every artifact’s SHA-256 is published in the release manifest if you want to verify a download.
One licence, every platform
£79per year
GBP · Annual subscription · 2 devices per licence
- Ark on 2 of your devices
- A year of updates on macOS, Linux, and Windows
- Every runtime and service Ark manages, downloaded on demand
- Licence keys and device management in your account
Checkout opens on keystone.cloudbluedigital.co.uk, our licensing service, where the licence key is issued and your devices are managed. Paddle is the merchant of record and handles the payment and your receipt.
Ark is a one-click local development environment for any language — PHP, Node, Python, Go, Java, .NET, Ruby — on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Install one app, park a folder, and every project inside it is instantly reachable at https://<name>.test with a trusted certificate, running on the runtime and services it declares.
No Docker. No VMs. No config archaeology.
Ark runs everything natively, so your projects start fast, your laptop battery survives the afternoon, and your file watchers actually watch files. Runtimes and services are downloaded on demand and managed for you — including running multiple versions side by side.
CLI-first, GUI included
The Ark daemon does the work; the GUI and the ark CLI are both thin clients on top of the same API. That means everything the GUI can do, your shell scripts and CI can do too — link a site, pin a runtime version, snapshot a database, tail a log.
For every stack you run
Where PHP-only tools stop at PHP and macOS-only tools stop at macOS, Ark is built tri-platform and polyglot from day one. One tool for the whole team, whatever they build on, whatever they build with.
Installing it
Downloads are the latest release for macOS (Apple silicon), Linux (AppImage, deb, rpm), and Windows. The builds are not code-signed yet, so macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen will warn you the first time you launch Ark — on macOS, open it from Finder with Open in the context menu; on Windows, choose More info then Run anyway. Every artifact's SHA-256 is published in the release manifest if you want to check a download before you run it.