Tired of a Google sign-in on every device? The alternative that needs no account.

The front door is a Google sign-in — on every device

Chrome Remote Desktop costs nothing in dollars, but setting it up means signing the host machine into a Google account — and signing in again on every device you connect from. Your machines, your access history, and your connection metadata all hang off that one identity. The full comparison table puts it plainly: what you pay with is a Google account and its metadata.

It also means there is no such thing as Chrome Remote Desktop without a Google account. The account is the pairing system, the device directory, and the trust model — remove it and nothing connects.

A Chrome tab is the engine — with a Chrome tab's latency

The whole pipeline — capture, encode, transport, decode, render — lives inside a browser sandbox over WebRTC, with software fallbacks where hardware acceleration is unavailable. Per the comparison table, that lands at roughly 50–150 ms of latency on a LAN, a frame ceiling near 30 fps, and a practical resolution ceiling of 1080p with 4:2:0 chroma. Fine for grabbing a file off a far-away machine; rough for anything you do with your hands all day.

One monitor at a time, no controllers, no stylus

Multi-monitor hosts are supported only by switching displays one at a time — there is no all-displays, side-by-side workflow. There is no gamepad forwarding for game streaming, and no Apple Pencil or stylus input at all. For a quick check on a long-running script, none of that matters; as a daily driver, each one is a wall.

Sound stays on the machine you left

The comparison table's entry for Chrome Remote Desktop audio streaming reads "No (host audio only)" — the sound never reaches the device in your hand. Video review without sound, music tools without monitoring, a remote session you can see but not hear: if your work has a soundtrack, the browser tab drops it.

Every feature, every platform — nothing held back

Remio is completely free, and every feature ships in the one build everyone gets: 4K streaming at up to 60 FPS, a dedicated virtual display sized to your device, audio in sync with the screen, controller and Apple Pencil support, unattended access, Wake-on-LAN, end-to-end encryption. There is no feature gate and no quality ceiling tied to money — free is the whole product, on every platform.

A six-digit code — rotate it anytime

There is no Remio account, and no Google sign-in standing in for one. The host shows a six-digit code; type it into the client, and the pairing record lives on the devices themselves. The devices exchange keys and remember each other — reconnects are instant, and no email, password, or profile ever exists. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to breach.

End-to-end encrypted — keys never leave your devices

Sessions are encrypted end-to-end, with keys negotiated directly between your devices. Keys never leave the endpoints, so any relay used to cross a strict NAT forwards ciphertext it cannot read. The full design is documented in the security whitepaper.

About 8 ms of processing latency on LAN — measured internally

On the same network, the processing pipeline — capture, hardware encode, the LAN hop, hardware decode — costs about 8 ms; the rest is your display's own 60 Hz refresh cadence, so your input lands before the next frame draws. Across the internet within the same region, low double-digit milliseconds. Both figures are Remio's own measurements, and the methodology is published on the benchmarks page so you can reproduce them on your own hardware — and compare them against the 50–150 ms a browser pipeline delivers.

4K at 60 FPS — and the workflows a tab skips

Streams run a buttery 4K at up to 60 FPS on hardware H.265, with H.264 fallback. A dedicated virtual display — sized to your device, not a squeezed copy of the host's monitor — comes with system audio in sync, gamepad support (Xbox, PlayStation, MFi), and Apple Pencil for point, tap, and scroll. True 4:4:4 color for razor-sharp text is now live from NVIDIA PCs to Mac (more pairs on the way).

SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, C++/WinRT — no browser anywhere

Every Remio app is built with the platform's first-party toolkit: SwiftUI on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS; Jetpack Compose on Android; C++/WinRT on Windows. Hosts run on macOS 15+ and Windows 10 (build 19041+) or 11 — Home editions included. Clients run on iOS/iPadOS 18+, macOS 15+, Android 12+, Windows 10/11; on Apple Vision Pro, the iPad app runs today (native visionOS client in development).