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We've compiled a list of 11 free and paid alternatives to WinOnX. The primary competitors include Wine, PlayOnLinux. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between WinOnX and Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, CrossOver. Also you can look at other similar options here: About.


Wine
Free Open Source

Wine is a free, open source application for running Windows software on operating systems that are...

Parallels Desktop gives Mac users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system...

Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac.

CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications and games on your Intel OS X Mac...

WineBottler
Free Open Source

WineBottler is an App to manage and wrap your Windows apps into convenient OS X apps.

Proton
Free Open Source

Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

Q4wine
Free Open Source

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

Karton
Free Open Source

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

Run your Windows applications on OSX without the need of buying a Windows license.

WinOnX Platforms

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WinOnX Overview

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 ready to go within 2 minutes.
No need to install Windows or a virtual machine.

Please note:

- WinOnX should only be used for applications which are not available for OSX. Whenever an application is available for OSX, we strongly recommend to use this version.

- WinOnX is based on the open source Wine project. It is a layer which redirects the communication between an application and Windows to OSX. As a result not all applications are fully compatible. Most applications run fine, some run even faster but also some run slower or even crash.
You can look at http://appdb.winehq.org/ to get some information how good your application might work with WinOnX which is an ongoing project. In case your Windows application does not work at the moment, there is a good chance that it will work after one of the next updates.

- Currently full screen applications (especially games) are only limited supported. We are currently working on a version which will support both full screen for Snow Leopard as well as for Lion.

WinOnX Features

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