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Podman Desktop vs Pods: catalog facts
Podman Desktop	Pods
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, with no company size restriction.	Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0 license.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux
No licence fee regardless of company size Installs and updates Podman itself, so there is one thing to manage	Native GNOME interface Works with both Podman and Docker, local or remote
Electron, so it is heavy for a dashboard Podman's rootless model behaves differently from Docker in ways that surprise people	Linux only, distributed mainly as a Flatpak No Compose or Kubernetes management mentioned
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	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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