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Q4Wine vs Bottles: catalog facts
Q4Wine	Bottles
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 or later licence, with optional donations.	Free Free and open source under GPLv3, funded by donations.
macOS, Linux	Linux
Manages multiple Wine prefixes and Wine versions Backup and restore of prefixes	Creates and manages Wine prefixes from templates instead of shell commands Manages runner and DXVK versions, and installs dependencies from a catalogue
Requires Wine and some understanding of prefixes Interface is more technical than newer Wine managers	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
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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