Brandy is a native SwiftUI app for running Windows games and apps on your Mac, made for people who don't want to learn how Wine works. Open it, click Set Up Steam, and Brandy prepares your Mac, downloads its Windows layer, creates a place for your games, and installs Steam from Valve. After that, it's one button: Open Steam.
Everything that used to be required is still there for those who want it. Turn on Show advanced options in Settings to manage bottles, installed programs, Windows versions, DXVK, Winetricks and Wine's own tools.
Brandy is a fork of Whisky, which is no longer maintained. Brandy is distilled from wine, just as this app is distilled from Whisky.
- CPU: Apple Silicon (M-series chips)
- OS: macOS Sonoma 14.0 or later
- About 3 GB of free space for the Windows layer and Steam
- Wine 11.0, the official WineHQ macOS build by Gcenx
- DXVK-macOS for Direct3D 10 and 11 through Vulkan, off by default
- Windows 10 or 11 for each bottle
The Windows layer is published as the whiskywine-3 release of this repository. scripts/build-whiskywine.sh rebuilds it from pinned, checksum-verified upstream releases.
Brandy exists thanks to:
- Whisky by Isaac Marovitz and contributors, which Brandy is built on
- Wine by the Wine project and CodeWeavers
- macOS Wine builds and DXVK-macOS by Gcenx and doitsujin
- MoltenVK by KhronosGroup
- Winetricks
- Sparkle by sparkle-project
- SemanticVersion by SwiftPackageIndex
- swift-argument-parser by Apple
- SwiftyTextTable by scottrhoyt
Brandy is free software under the GNU General Public License v3.