On the plus side, Playonmac will chose all the right settings for you to run the app correctly, the correct windows and wine version etc which is something you need to fiddle with with with Wineskin.

You can create a shortcut for it in your Applications folder but this will launch Playonmac and the app needs to be installed inside Playonmac. The only reason I prefer Wineskin is that it does not create a true self contained HeidiSQL.app. You just select HeidiSQL from the list of programs and it will download everything you need for you. It has HeidiSQL listed on its website as compatible and its almost a single click install. Playonmac on the other hand is very user friendly. Noteworthy is that you need to change the windows version to XP rather than 7 or some buttons won't work. You need to read the instructions (which are very good) and you have choices to make as to the wine version to use and to configure the app. Personally this is the neatest solution and my preferred even though there its a little more technical than Playonmac and similar to Winebottler. It then creates a HeidiSQL.app (any name you want with any icon you want - but you need to configure it) around the windows.exe that includes the wine version selected and is completely self contained (does not need wine installed separately).

Wineskin is a mac app that download and install (and manages, updates, etc) 'wine' for you. Wineskin ( ), Playonmac ( ) and Winebottler I am putting my findings down here for it may help someone: I know this thread is a little old but I was just looking for something like this to launch HeidiSQL and I came up with these three solutions which I have tried and all of them work.

Winebottler windows 10