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Whisky

Whisky provides a clean and easy to use graphical wrapper for Wine built in native SwiftUI. You can make and manage bottles, install and run Windows apps and games, and unlock the full potential of your Mac with no technical knowledge required.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Wine
  • Homebrew
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Discontinued

Whisky is no longer actively maintained. Apps and games may break at any time.

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  Compatibility Layer
  4.  Run Windows software

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  • eipb16 and babsors liked Whisky
  • Danilo_Venom added Whisky as alternative to Sikarugir
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    POX added Whisky as alternative to WineCharm
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    Statement on Website: "Whisky is no longer actively maintained. Apps and games may break at any time."

  • OpenSourceSoftware added Whisky as alternative to wwine
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Whisky information

  • Developed by

    Isaac Marovitz

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    33 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  14,785 Stars
  •  450 Forks
  •  444 Open Issues
  •   Updated  (Archived)
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Whisky, and it has gotten 21 likes

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Whisky is the absolute best tool for launching windows games on macos. free and simple, love it

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Statement on Website: "Whisky is no longer actively maintained. Apps and games may break at any time."

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What is Whisky?

Whisky provides a clean and easy to use graphical wrapper for Wine built in native SwiftUI. You can make and manage bottles, install and run Windows apps and games, and unlock the full potential of your Mac with no technical knowledge required. Whisky is built on top of CrossOver 22.1.1, and Apple's own Game Porting Toolkit.

No-terminal setup.

No terminal experience? No problem. Whisky makes setup hands-off and easy to follow.

Familiar design.

Native UI built from the ground up for macOS. Feel right at home in this rounded-corner, fast-loading utopia.

  • Native UI. Native speeds. No Electron slowdown.
  • Localised in 17 different languages.
  • Responsive and robust.
  • Built on macOS Sonoma for macOS Sonoma.

Pre-built tools.

Don't wait hours for GPTK to compile. Get from installing Whisky to gaming in minutes.

macOS integration.

Drag-n-drop? Terminal integration? Native logging? We got it.

Debugging made easy.

Connect up with Xcode and make GPU captures without all the faff.

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