- Latest Version:
- Requirements:Mac OS X 10.6 or later
- Author / Product:Mike Kronenberg / WineBottler for Mac
- Old Versions:
- Filename:WineBottlerCombo_1.6.1.dmg
- MD5 Checksum:d50962cc216ccfe1e9975da3f5b79619
How to Run Windows Software on a Mac With WineBottler. To get started, download WineBottler. Be sure to download a version that works on your release of Mac OS X. When this article was written, that meant OS X El Capitan and Yosemite users needed to download version 1.8.
WineBottler packages Windows-based programs like browsers, media-players, games or business applications snugly into Mac app-bundles.- Your company provides you with a login, mail, calendar and contacts that only work on certain browsers?
- You quickly want to test your websites in Windows-based browsers.
- You want to play games, that are not ported to macOS?
- Your online trading platform or accounting tool only runs on Windows?
- Your audio book player is not available on macOS?
No need to install emulators, virtualizers or boot into other operating systems – the app runs your Windows-based programs directly on your Mac. This is possible thanks to a Windows-compatible subsystem, which is provided by the great OpenSource tool Wine.
Select from a wide range of software for which WineBottler for macOS offers automated installations. It is as easy as hitting 'Install' – and Wine Bottler will leave you with a neat app on your desktop. The tool does not come with the programs themselves, but with scripts, that take care of downloading, configuring and installing everything into an app for you.
Double-click your .exe or .msi and convert it into an app with WineBottler. You can run the generated app like every other program on your Mac. For advanced users, Wine Bottler for Mac gives you a selection of options: install special dependencies and even turn your .exe into a self-contained app - that is an app, that contains everything to run it... even on other Macs. Porting to OS X never was easier.
Note: Requires Wine and 64-bit processor.
Select from a wide range of software for which WineBottler for macOS offers automated installations. It is as easy as hitting 'Install' – and Wine Bottler will leave you with a neat app on your desktop. The tool does not come with the programs themselves, but with scripts, that take care of downloading, configuring and installing everything into an app for you.
Double-click your .exe or .msi and convert it into an app with WineBottler. You can run the generated app like every other program on your Mac. For advanced users, Wine Bottler for Mac gives you a selection of options: install special dependencies and even turn your .exe into a self-contained app - that is an app, that contains everything to run it... even on other Macs. Porting to OS X never was easier.
Note: Requires Wine and 64-bit processor.
WineBottler is software that enables users to move from Windows OS to Mac so that they can open all Windows apps as Mac apps.
It eliminates the need of installing emulator, virtualizer or boot into other OS, as you can easily run Windows based programs on Mac without any hassle.
Linux users usually use Wine to run Windows programs, but now Wine is available for Mac as well. This great open-source tool is widely used to run Windows programs as standalone Mac apps.
You can also create standalone apps without installing Wine by adding the wine bundle into the standalone app bundle.
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How does it work?
The software does not have its own programs, but it has scripts that enable you to download, configure and install the whole thing into an app.
For conversion into an app using this software, simply make a double click on .exe or .msi to run this created app similar to other programs on your Mac.
All installed Windows apps are stored in the ‘On My Mac’ area of the software. Make a click on the desired app to launch it and to appear it in the Dock.
Features of WineBottler
- You can even install two programs into the same app easily and quickly by using the advanced tab.
- It allows you to access files from inside Mac app, where the software runs by-default in the sandboxed mode to provide secure usage to the users. The files you want to access on a Mac needs to be accessed from Z drive from the inside of this software.
As you can install different types of Windows apps easily using this software, thus provides great benefits to web developers where they can run Internet Explorer and other browsers to test the websites. Similarly, gamers too can access more apps than ever before.
The software is not suitable for running 3D applications, so if you want to run 3D apps, you have to search for other software to meet your needs, hence, it worth try for apps other than 3D.
Now, there is no need to run Windows apps virtually on a Mac using Parallels or VMWare Fusion, a kind of virtual environment, if you have WineBottler.