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Lan House Download

The LAN house is now on your Mac

Play Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs. One click, no setup. Free and open source.

Download for macOS View the source on GitHub

Apple Silicon · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · about 280 MB

Lan House window: the library with 7-Zip and OpenTTD, OpenTTD selected and playing, a yellow session ticket at 42:19, and the settings panel.
Machine 01 · playing now

Every machine is ready

OpenTTD in Lan House: status Ready, Standard engine, OpenGL, isolated, with a yellow Play button.

One click to play

Pick the .exe that starts the game. Lan House creates a bottle, copies the game, reads its icon and is ready.

The yellow session ticket showing 42:19, playing now.

The session ticket

Like the ticket at the counter: a live clock while you play, and every session recorded after you quit.

Settings panel: Engine Standard, Graphics OpenGL or Vulkan, Performance overlay switched on.

Your frame rate, on screen

One switch shows FPS, frame time and GPU time while you play. Change the renderer per game when one runs better.

The library sidebar listing 7-Zip and OpenTTD, each with a green ready dot.

Each game in its own bottle

Bottles cannot see your home folder or the rest of the disk. Remove a game and nothing is left behind.

Install in a minute

Two ways in. Both install the same app from the same public release.

The fastest way: one command

Open Terminal, paste this and press Return. It downloads the latest release, checks it against its published SHA-256, installs it in Applications and opens it. No warnings, no extra steps.

curl -fsSL https://jpazv.github.io/lanhouse/install.sh | bash

Want to read it first? Here is the whole script, under 40 lines.

Or the classic way: the DMG

  1. Download and drag to Applications

    Open LanHouse.dmg and drag Lan House into Applications.

  2. Approve it once

    On the first launch macOS shows “Lan House Not Opened”. Click OK, never “Move to Trash”. Then open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. macOS remembers your choice.

  3. Add a game

    Click Add game and choose the game’s launcher .exe.

Why does macOS show a warning?

macOS warns about any app whose developer has not joined Apple’s paid developer program. The warning means “Apple has not checked this developer”, not “this app is harmful”. Lan House is a free project and is not enrolled yet; signed and notarized builds are already set up and will ship as soon as it is.

Until then, you do not have to take our word for it:

  • Every line is public. The app, the engine scripts and this installer are on GitHub.
  • Built in the open. Releases are built by GitHub Actions from that public source; the build log is public too.
  • Checked on download. Each release publishes its SHA-256, and the installer refuses a file that does not match.
  • Contained by design. Games run in bottles that cannot see your home folder, and the app has no background service and sends no data anywhere.

Free and open source

The engine scripts are LGPL 2.1 and the app is MIT. Read every line on GitHub.

What does not run

Games with kernel-level anti-cheat do not work under Wine and are out of scope.

About these screenshots

They show the real app with sample data: OpenTTD and 7-Zip, and a session clock set for the picture.