Wine Alternatives for macOS

PlayOnLinux is an application which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and apps designed to run with Microsoft Windows. As few games are avalible for UNIX-like systems like macOS and Linux, PlayOnLinux playes an important role of allowing people to play games utilizing wine skins. A wrapper around Windows games and software that allow the game to be used on Linux and macOS.

With CrossOver you can run Microsoft Windows software on Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS. CrossOver creates a Microsoft Windows compatibility layer making it possible to run games and software only available for Windows. CrossOver is developed by CodeWeavers and based on free and open-source compatibility layer Wine.

With Parallels Desktop you can run several other operating systems on your PC simultaneously. The software provides hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors. With ongoing support for DirectX and OpenGL, many popular games and game engines are supported within Parallels Desktop allowing people using make to make use of Microsoft Windows related products.

VMware Fusion provides a simple way to run virtual machines for macOS running Windows, Linux and other x86-based operating systems. With the use of VMware Fusion Player Desktop Hypervisors Mac users can run Windows on macOS with hundreds of other operating systems, containers or Kubernetes clusters, side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting. With VMware Fusion you can easily witch to make and bring your loved Windows applications with you.