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Porting Kit vs Bottles: catalog facts
Porting Kit	Bottles
Free Free to download; some games in its catalog must be bought separately.	Free Free and open source under GPLv3, funded by donations.
macOS	Linux
Prepared installers for Windows games on macOS Catalog of games that can be filtered by genre, source and price	Creates and manages Wine prefixes from templates instead of shell commands Manages runner and DXVK versions, and installs dependencies from a catalogue
Compatibility depends on Wine, so not every game works Mac only	Linux only, and primarily distributed as a Flatpak Wine compatibility is still Wine compatibility; Bottles cannot make a program work that Wine cannot run
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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