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Bottles vs Q4Wine: catalog facts
Bottles	Q4Wine
Free Free and open source under GPLv3, funded by donations.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 or later licence, with optional donations.
Linux	macOS, Linux
Creates and manages Wine prefixes from templates instead of shell commands Manages runner and DXVK versions, and installs dependencies from a catalogue	Manages multiple Wine prefixes and Wine versions Backup and restore of prefixes
Linux only, and primarily distributed as a Flatpak Wine compatibility is still Wine compatibility; Bottles cannot make a program work that Wine cannot run	Requires Wine and some understanding of prefixes Interface is more technical than newer Wine managers
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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