whisky-app/whisky

Whisky is a Mac application that lets you run Windows programs and games on macOS. It does this by wrapping Wine, a long-running open source project that translates Windows system calls into ones the host operating system understands. The point of Whisky is the wrapper part: instead of dealing with Wine on the command line, you get a graphical interface built in SwiftUI that fits in with the rest of macOS. The README is upfront that Whisky is no longer actively maintained, and apps and games may break at any time. The project description still applies to what the tool was, but anyone considering it should weigh that notice. In Wine terminology, a bottle is an isolated environment that holds a Windows program along with the libraries and settings it needs. Whisky lets you create and manage these bottles with a one-click flow, and then install and run Windows software inside them. There are also screens for debugging and profiling the apps that you run. Whisky is built on top of CrossOver version 22.1.1, a paid commercial version of Wine from CodeWeavers, and Apple's Game Porting Toolkit, which provides graphics translation pieces. System requirements are an Apple Silicon Mac (M-series chips) running macOS Sonoma 14.0 or later. Installation is available through Homebrew with brew install cask whisky. The README links a community wiki listing games that need special steps to get working.