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Bottles vs Porting Kit: catalog facts
Bottles	Porting Kit
Free Free and open source under GPLv3, funded by donations.	Free Free to download; some games in its catalog must be bought separately.
Linux	macOS
Creates and manages Wine prefixes from templates instead of shell commands Manages runner and DXVK versions, and installs dependencies from a catalogue	Prepared installers for Windows games on macOS Catalog of games that can be filtered by genre, source and price
Linux only, and primarily distributed as a Flatpak Wine compatibility is still Wine compatibility; Bottles cannot make a program work that Wine cannot run	Compatibility depends on Wine, so not every game works Mac only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: GPL-3.0	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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