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Podman Desktop vs Colima: catalog facts
Podman Desktop	Colima
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, with no company size restriction.	Free The open-source application is available without a license fee.
Windows, macOS, Linux	macOS, Linux
No licence fee regardless of company size Installs and updates Podman itself, so there is one thing to manage	Multiple instances with automatic port forwarding
Electron, so it is heavy for a dashboard Podman's rootless model behaves differently from Docker in ways that surprise people	The Docker runtime requires a Docker client.
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
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 22, 2026

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