XIV on Mac is a better way to play Final Fantasy XIV on macOS. Users can enjoy significantly better performance over the official launcher, one-click support for Dalamud and plugins, and a seamless setup process without the need to manage Wine prefixes.

XIV on Mac:

  • includes a native launcher written in Swift.
  • provides out of the box support for popular mods, such as Dalamud, ReShade, and IINACT.
  • performs significantly better than the official wrapper.
  • supports the latest technologies from Apple such as macOS Sonoma, Apple Silicon, and Metal 2.
  • has day-one support for major macOS releases.
  • uses a custom Wine distribution compiled with optimisations for Rosetta.
  • uses DXMT for DirectX to Metal translation without needing to step through Vulkan first.

XIV on Mac is free and open source software, with active development, regular updates, and community support.

Our current admin staff:

Marzent (Head Developer, Technical Support)
Seathasky (Project Manager, Support)
FleetAdmiralButter (Web Developer, Support)
Wyldfire (Contributor, Mac Development, Support)
Gcenx (Contributor, Head macOS Wine maintainer, Support)

Special thanks:

  • goaats - for the amazing XIVLauncher and cross-platform efforts.
  • redstrate - for his nativelauncher which made dalamud injection very easy to implement without .net framework and his Astra launcher.
  • tyrone-sudeium - for his LaunchXIV App, upon which most of the login flow code was based upon.
  • Franz Renatus - for helping out with support and his ever useful Franzbot.
  • QuantCDN - for letting us use their service free of charge to host our website.
  • Codeweavers - for giving us permission to use their MoltenVK dylib from Crossover.
  • Zoey Cluff - for her year long contribution to the project.
  • 3Shain - for DXMT, which provides significant performance optimisations over DXVK.

Localisation:

Additional credits:

A big thank you to our community for sharing their screenshots with us and allowing their use as design assets:

  • Adelaide#5003
  • Bee#6283 (Jinx)
  • Duskfallcrew#6931
  • Doremmy#2300
  • Lumen#8703
  • Ruby Evy#9046
  • Sezen#0696
  • Shark Adjacent#3063 (Ryl)
  • Toka#1088