A modern macOS app for managing Wine bottles, running Windows applications, and improving compatibility workflows on Apple Silicon Macs.
VineyardMac started as an independent continuation of Whisky, an open-source Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI.
This project is independently maintained and is not affiliated with the original Whisky project.
VineyardMac is currently in early development.
The initial goal is to preserve the useful foundation of Whisky while modernizing the project, improving maintainability, and exploring new features around diagnostics, compatibility profiles, and AI-assisted troubleshooting.
Expect breaking changes while the project is being renamed, cleaned up, and reorganized.
There are no official VineyardMac binary releases yet. Testers and contributors currently build the app from source.
VineyardMac aims to provide:
- A clean native macOS interface for Wine bottle management
- Better diagnostics for failed Windows app and game launches
- Improved compatibility workflows for Apple Silicon Macs
- Easier management of Wine, DXVK, Metal-related components, and bottle settings
- AI-assisted troubleshooting for logs, crashes, and configuration issues
- A maintained, community-friendly continuation of the original Whisky concept
- Rename visible app branding from Whisky to VineyardMac
- Update documentation and setup instructions
- Review build process on current macOS versions
- Clean deprecated links and archived project references
- Audit dependencies and bundled components
- Preserve GPL-3.0 license compliance and attribution
- Improve bottle creation and management UX
- Add better error reporting and diagnostics
- Improve logs and crash explanations
- Add compatibility profiles for common apps and games
- Improve Wine component management
- Review support for current versions of macOS
- Add AI-assisted troubleshooting
- Add guided fixes for common launch failures
- Add community-maintained compatibility data
- Improve developer tooling for contributors
- Explore plugin-style compatibility helpers
VineyardMac currently targets:
- Apple Silicon Mac
- macOS Sonoma 14.0 or later
These requirements may change as the project evolves.
Install Xcode and SwiftLint, then open the project:
open Whisky.xcodeprojTo validate a contribution from the command line:
xcodebuild -project Whisky.xcodeproj -scheme Whisky -configuration Debug CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO build
swift build --package-path WhiskyKit
swiftlint --strictThe project still contains original Whisky naming internally while the transition to VineyardMac is in progress.
A full rename of the Xcode project, targets, bundle identifiers, and app metadata will be handled carefully to avoid breaking the build.
VineyardMac is based on Whisky by the Whisky-App contributors:
https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky
The original Whisky project is licensed under GPL-3.0.
This project preserves the original license and copyright notices. Substantial changes made in this repository are part of VineyardMac and are maintained independently from the original Whisky project.
Whisky is no longer actively maintained by its original maintainers. VineyardMac is a separate continuation and is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the original Whisky project or its maintainers.
VineyardMac is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
See LICENSE for the full license text.
Because this project is based on GPL-3.0 software, redistributed modified versions must also comply with the GPL-3.0 license terms.
VineyardMac exists because of the work done by the original Whisky contributors and the broader Wine/macOS compatibility ecosystem.
Special thanks to the original Whisky project and its contributors.
The original Whisky project also credited several important projects and technologies, including:
- Wine
- CrossOver
- Apple's Game Porting Toolkit
- DXVK-macOS
- MoltenVK
- Sparkle
- SwiftUI
- Other open-source dependencies used by the original project
Attribution for upstream projects will be preserved and expanded as the codebase is reviewed.
VineyardMac is an independent open-source project.
It is not affiliated with Apple, CodeWeavers, WineHQ, the original Whisky maintainers, or any commercial compatibility product.
Windows application and game compatibility can vary significantly depending on macOS version, hardware, Wine version, graphics stack, and application-specific behavior.
Contributions are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request.
Planned contribution areas include:
- Build fixes
- Documentation updates
- macOS compatibility testing
- Bottle management improvements
- UI/UX improvements
- Wine configuration fixes
- Compatibility profiles
- Log parsing and diagnostics
- AI-assisted troubleshooting workflows
Use issues for reproducible bugs and discussions for questions or larger proposals.
VineyardMac is not intended to be a simple rebrand.
The project direction is to become a maintained, modern, developer-friendly Wine management app for macOS with better diagnostics, better user guidance, and eventually AI-assisted support features.
The first phase is stabilization and cleanup.
The second phase is modernization.
The third phase is new functionality.