Over time, there have been a variety of Third Party Applications that have attempted to make Wine more useful or easier to use.

It is important to understand that although these third party applications may make Wine more usable, they are not supported by the Wine project. If you have questions regarding the use of a third party application, please use the support mediums provided by that third party rather than Wine HQ.

Why Third Party Applications Exist

Users want to run applications and sometimes a change to Wine can cause an application to work, but this change cannot be incorporated into Wine for some reason. For example, the change may break Wine for other applications and/or platforms. As such changes to Wine must meet some level of QA. If the change is a dirty hack to Wine's source code that allows an application to run, then the change may end up within Wine's source code only after it has been properly fixed.

In theory, any third party application here is essentially a temporary workaround until underlying bugs in Wine can be fixed properly. As wine improves, parts or all of these third party applications may become obsolete or incompatible with Wine (at least until the third party provides a suitable update).

Current Third Party Applications

The applications below should work with the latest Wine and are still being maintained.

• Crossover

  • The crossover series of products are a repackaging with added patches to support more applications and added interfaces on top of WineHQ.

• Bordeaux

  • is a tool for installing a lot of Windows applications on Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, OpenSolaris & Mac like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Adobe Photoshop, and more.

• PlayOnLinux

  • is a tool which is aiming on making it easy for the user to install Windows software, like World of Warcraft, Adobe Photoshop, Guild Wars and much more.

• Q4Wine

  • is an qt4 GUI for Wine. It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications.

• winetricks

  • is a tool for installing various redistributable runtimes, e.g. mono, dcom98, fonts...

• WineXS

  • is a GUI for Wine.

• WineD3D installer for native Windows

  • provide an OpenGL-based free replacement for Microsoft Direct3D (useful for things like VirtualBox)

• Wineskin (for Mac OS X)

  • Very versatile tool for Wine usage, making ports/wrappers to be shared with others. Focused on gaming, and trying to make finished Mac .apps that look and work like a native app.

• WineBottler (for Mac OS X)

  • is a tool to install and run pre- or custom configured apps. It comes with precompiled wine and allows to create fully self-contained .app bundles.

• osxwinebuilder (for Mac OS X)

  • A command line script to compile and install Wine and a number of prerequisite packages from source on Mac OS X.

Obsolete Third Party Applications

These applications are no longer useful, unmaintained, and do not work with current Wine releases. You should not use these.

• Winetools

  • provided a menu driven installer for around 90 windows applications. No longer being maintained.

• WineDoors

  • installs and configures Wine, as well as many Windows programs.

• Winesetuptk : (Windows Emulator (Configuration and Setup Tool))

  • This was a Wine setup tool provided by CodeWeavers, Inc. Wine can now setup its own environment automatically, and winecfg has now replaced the other limited configuration that winesetuptk allowed.

• XWine

  • was a graphical user interface for the WINE emulator. It provided an interface for configuring and running MS-Windows applications. It is no longer useful now.

• WineBot

  • Windows application installer automation tool for Wine unix environment.