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UTM vs Quickemu: catalog facts
UTM	Quickemu
Freemium Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. A paid Mac App Store listing exists…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
macOS, iOS	Linux, macOS, Command line
Hardware-accelerated virtualisation on macOS through Hypervisor.framework Full emulation of more than thirty architectures when you need a different one	quickget downloads the official image and writes the config for you Sensible QEMU options chosen from your actual hardware
Emulating a different architecture is slow The iOS version needs a jailbreak or a workaround for full speed	Command line only Host support is Linux and macOS; there is no Windows host
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
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 21, 2026

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