GetMCP Standalone App: Install with One Command Easily

Your MCP server builder shouldn’t dictate your stack. Plenty of you run GetMCP inside WordPress and love it there — but plenty more asked the same question, phrased a dozen ways: can I run this on its own? As of 1.4.0, yes. The GetMCP standalone app is the full builder — same admin, same tools, same endpoints — as a self-hosted application for macOS, Linux and Windows. Any host with PHP 8.3 will do: your laptop, a five-dollar VPS, a Raspberry Pi in a cupboard.

The one-command install

curl -fsSL https://get.getmcp.com | bash

The installer checks your server — PHP version, required extensions, writable folders — downloads the latest release, verifies its checksum, and puts everything in place. On Windows, one line of PowerShell does the same job:

irm https://get.getmcp.com/install.ps1 | iex

Then it hands you a link, and the browser takes over: a three-step wizard checks your server, sets up the database — SQLite by default, created for you, with MySQL and PostgreSQL supported if you already run one — and creates your administrator account. From the moment you paste the command to a running dashboard is genuinely about a minute.

The same product, deliberately

The standalone app is not a lite edition or a rewrite — it is the same codebase that ships as the WordPress plugin. Servers, tools, prompts, resources, the chat playground, analytics, logs, importers for cURL, OpenAPI, Swagger and Postman, Manage with AI — all of it. You can even move a whole server between a WordPress install and a standalone one with a single export file. Whatever you learn in one home applies in the other, and every future release lands on both simultaneously, with a shared version number.

Updates that respect your data

When a release ships, a sidebar notice appears on every screen. One click downloads it, verifies the checksum, replaces the application files, and runs any pending migrations — your configuration, database and storage are never touched. If you live in the terminal, the installer doubles as the updater:

curl -fsSL https://get.getmcp.com | bash -s -- --update --dir=/path/to/getmcp

Get it

Run the one-liner on any server, or download the zip from the Standalone version section of your account page. The setup guide covers everything above in step-by-step detail, including hosting-panel specifics and troubleshooting. Fourteen-day trial included; your license activates on whichever home you choose — or both.