Bottles comparisons

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Bottles is compared head-to-head with Wine, CrossOver and PlayOnLinux and more: 7 head-to-heads in Windows Compatibility Layers, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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Bottles head-to-head

• Bottles vs Wine
• Bottles vs CrossOver
• Bottles vs PlayOnLinux
• Bottles vs Porting Kit
• BBottles vs BottleLite
• QBottles vs Q4Wine
• Bottles vs Crosswire

Bottles vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	macOS support	Linux support	Apple silicon support	Graphics acceleration	Score
3	Bottles	Yes	None	Yes	Yes	Yes	Dxvk-vkd3d	8.2
1	Wine	Yes	None	Yes	Yes	Yes	—	9.0
2	CrossOver	No	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	Dxvk-vkd3d	8.7
4	PlayOnLinux	Yes	None	Yes	Yes	—	Dxvk	7.7
5	Porting Kit	Yes	None	Yes	—	Yes	Dxvk	7.4
6	BBottleLite	Yes	None	Yes	No	—	Dxvk	6.9
7	QQ4Wine	Yes	None	Yes	Yes	—	—	6.8
8	Crosswire	Yes	None	Yes	No	Yes	—	6.7

Compare Bottles with any Windows compatibility layer

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