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Podman Desktop vs Whaler: catalog facts
Podman Desktop	Whaler
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 or later.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux
No licence fee regardless of company size Installs and updates Podman itself, so there is one thing to manage	Starts and stops containers and compose applications Built-in log viewer
Electron, so it is heavy for a dashboard Podman's rootless model behaves differently from Docker in ways that surprise people	Basic feature set compared with full Docker dashboards Requires Docker to be installed separately
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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