The Best 14 CrossOver Alternatives

  • Wine icon

    Wine

    Wine is a free, open source application for running Windows software on operating systems that are normally not supported. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux Android Android Tablet BSD

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    PlayOnLinux

    PlayOnLinux (PlayOnMac at http://www.playonmac.com ) is a tool to help Linux (and Mac) users run games and programs for Windows on Linux (or Mac, FreeBSD), via the use of (as a front-end for) Wine.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Mac FreeBSD Wine

  • Parallels Desktop icon

    Parallels Desktop

    Parallels Desktop gives Mac users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical applications at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro.

    Commercial

  • RetroArch icon

    RetroArch

    What is RetroArch? RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable. It has features few other emulators frontends have, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone iPad Web Blackberry

    Modular System Interface Feature Multi System Emulator
  • Lutris icon

    Lutris

    Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It allows you to gather and manage (install, configure and launch) all your games acquired from any source, in a single interface.

    Free Open Source Linux Web Steam MS-DOS

  • WineBottler icon

    WineBottler

    WineBottler is an App to manage and wrap your Windows apps into convenient OS X apps. WineBottler helps you with running Windows programs on OS X.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Wine

  • Wineskin Winery icon

    Wineskin Winery

    Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X. The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Wine

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    Q4wine

    Q4Wine is a qt4 GUI for wine that will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD Wine

  • Porting Kit icon

    Porting Kit

    Install Windows Games in Mac OS X natively and easily and for free with Wineskin technology.

    Free Mac OS X

  • Vineyard icon

    Vineyard

    Vineyard is a collection of tools and libraries designed to make managing Windows programs on Linux easier.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • WinOnX icon

    WinOnX

    Run your Windows applications on OSX without the need of buying a Windows license. Well, you even do not need to install Windows. Just download WinOnX and you are...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • PyWinery icon

    PyWinery

    PyWinery is a graphical, easy and simple wine-prefix manager which allows you to launch apps, explore and manage configuration of separate prefixes, graphically and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux Wine Cedega

  • Karton icon

    Karton

    Run Linux programs on macOS, a different Linux distro, or a different architecture.

    Free Open Source Linux Mac