Winetricks Alternatives

Winetricks is described as 'Easy way to work around problems in Wine' and is a compatibility layer tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Winetricks for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Wine, Flathub and Windows apps. The best Winetricks alternative is Wine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Winetricks are Proton, PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac, ReactOS and Bottles.

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Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.

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Winetricks alternatives page was last updated Jun 22, 2025
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  1. WineBottler icon

    WineBottler

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    WineBottler is an App to manage and wrap your Windows apps into convenient OS X apps. WineBottler helps you with running Windows programs on OS X.

    35 WineBottler alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Wine
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    Discontinued

    The application has not been updated for almost three years: https://bitbucket.org/winebottler/winebottler/src/master/, https://bitbucket.org/winebottler/winebottler/src/master/It also does not support the latest versions of macOS: https://www.reddit.com/r/winehq/comments/j43ziq/comment/g7gqpk5/

    WineBottler Features

    1.  Run in existing prefix

    WineBottler VS Winetricks

     
  2. ProtonPlus icon

    ProtonPlus

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    A simple Wine and Proton-based compatibility tools manager.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • CA flagCanada

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Fedora
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Wine
    • Flatpak
    • Vala
    • Proton
    ProtonPlus screenshot 1

    ProtonPlus Features

    1.  Gtk

    ProtonPlus VS Winetricks

     
  4. Goldberg Emulator icon

    Goldberg Emulator

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    Steam emulator that emulates steam online features. Lets you play games that use the steam multiplayer APIs on a LAN without steam or an internet connection.

    32 Goldberg Emulator alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    Goldberg Emulator screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Gaming-focused

    Features

    1.  Local multiplayer
    2.  LAN

    Goldberg Emulator VS Winetricks

     
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    Parallels Desktop

    Virtualization software for running Windows, Linux, and other OSes on Mac. Supports Windows 11 on Apple Silicon, resource adjustments, and seamless app access and file sharing between OS environments.

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  6. DXVK

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    A Vulkan-based translation layer for D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11, which can be used on Linux with Wine.

    14 DXVK alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wine

    DXVK Features

    1.  Run Windows software
    2.  Emulation
    3.  Run Windows Games
    4.  In-Game Overlay
    5.  FPS counter

    DXVK VS Winetricks

     
  7. WineZGUI icon

    WineZGUI

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    WineZGUI (pronounced Wine-Zee-Goo-Eee) is a wine frontend for playing windows games with wine easily. It is a collection of Bash scripts for Wine Prefix Management and Linux Desktop Integration for easier wine gaming experience using Zenity.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    WineZGUI screenshot 1

    WineZGUI Features

    1.  Run Windows software

    WineZGUI VS Winetricks

     
  8. Phoenicis icon

    Phoenicis

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    Phoenicis is a graphical front-end for Wine, a tool to help Linux and Mac users run games and programs for Windows. The future of PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    Phoenicis screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The latest alpha version (v5.0-alpha.3) is from September 2020.

    Phoenicis Features

    1.  Run Windows Games
    2.  Run Windows software

    Phoenicis VS Winetricks

     
  10. Protontricks icon

    Protontricks

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    A wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Python
    • Flatpak
    Protontricks screenshot 1

    Protontricks VS Winetricks

     
  11. ProtonUp-Qt icon

    ProtonUp-Qt

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    Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • NO flagNorway

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • AppImageHub
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    ProtonUp-Qt screenshot 1

    ProtonUp-Qt VS Winetricks

     

  12. Proton GE

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    This is my build of Proton with the most recent bleeding-edge Proton Experimental WINE.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wine

    Proton GE VS Winetricks

     
  13. Q4wine icon

    Q4wine

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    Q4Wine is a qt4 GUI for wine that will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications

    38 Q4wine alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Wine
    Q4wine screenshot 1

    Q4wine Features

    1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension

    Q4wine VS Winetricks

     
  14. WineCharm icon

    WineCharm

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    WineCharm is a graphical user interface (GUI) application designed to simplify running and managing Windows applications on Linux using Wine. Built with Python and GTK4/Libadwaita, it provides an intuitive interface for launching .exe and .

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    WineCharm screenshot 1
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    WineCharm Features

    1.  Run Windows software
    2.  Run Windows Games

    WineCharm VS Winetricks

     
  15. Hangover icon

    Hangover

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    This is Hangover, a project started by André Zwing and Stefan Dösinger in 2016 to run (x86_64)/x86_32 Windows applications on aarch64/(ppc64le)/x86_64 Wine. (Architectures in brackets are currently not supported).

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Hangover Features

    1.  Run Windows software

    Hangover VS Winetricks

     
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