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Podman Desktop vs Cockpit Podman: catalog facts
Podman Desktop	Cockpit Podman
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, with no company size restriction.	Free Free and open source under the LGPL 2.1 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux, Web, Self-hosted
No licence fee regardless of company size Installs and updates Podman itself, so there is one thing to manage	Browser interface for Podman on a server Integrates with the existing Cockpit console
Electron, so it is heavy for a dashboard Podman's rootless model behaves differently from Docker in ways that surprise people	Requires Cockpit to be installed on the server Podman only, not Docker
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: LGPL-2.1
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 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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