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"Commercial use suspected" — and your session ends in 5 minutes

TeamViewer's free tier is licensed for personal use only, and an automated detector decides which side of the line you are on. Connect to too many machines, connect too often, or touch a host that looks like an office PC, and the warning appears — after which free sessions are cut to roughly five minutes, with forced timeouts between reconnects.

The detector produces false positives, and TeamViewer's own support flow acknowledges this: there is a reset form where flagged personal users can plead their case and wait for review. Helping a parent with their work laptop should not require an appeals process.

Clearing the flag means a license — from $24.90 per month

Once flagged, the practical fix is a subscription. TeamViewer's entry plan, Remote Access, starts at $24.90 per month; Business is $50.90 per month; Premium starts at $120.90 per month — per seat, billed annually. For a freelancer who reaches two machines a few times a week, that is several hundred dollars a year for capability the hardware already has.

An account is now required — even on the free tier

The current TeamViewer Remote client requires creating and signing in to a TeamViewer account before you can start sessions — free tier included. That is an email, a password, and a profile in a central database, plus device-trust verification emails when you sign in somewhere new. Every account database is a liability you carry for as long as you use the product: one more credential to manage, one more record an attacker would love to dump.

A state-backed breach of TeamViewer's corporate environment

In June 2024, TeamViewer disclosed that APT29 — the Russian state-backed group also linked to the SolarWinds campaign — had compromised its internal corporate IT environment via an employee account. To be precise and fair: TeamViewer stated that the corporate network is segmented from the product environment, and reported no evidence that the product network, connectivity platform, or customer data was touched.

The product was not breached. But the incident — the second nation-state intrusion TeamViewer has disclosed, after a 2016 incident attributed to Chinese state actors — illustrates the structural issue: a vendor that operates a central account database and relay network is a high-value target, forever. Architectures with no accounts and no relay decrypt path have less to steal.

Native on every platform — no Electron anywhere

Every Remio app is a native app for its platform: iPhone and iPad, Mac, Android, and Windows. There is no Chromium runtime, no JavaScript bridge, and no web view in the rendering path — frames go from the hardware decoder to the screen the way the OS intends.

No per-seat fee — no commercial-use detection

Remio's core remote desktop is free, no matter how you use it: 120 FPS streaming, display switching with a dedicated virtual display, unattended access, Wake-on-LAN, end-to-end encryption. There is no commercial-use detector and no session timer — use it at home, at work, or for clients, the free license does not distinguish. Remio Pro is an optional subscription ($1.99 a month) for extras like two-way file transfer and extra virtual displays; it is never required to use Remio.

A QR code or a PIN — new PIN anytime

Pairing two devices takes a QR code or a Device ID and PIN shown on the Connect page of Remio Host. Scan or type them in Remio, and the devices exchange keys and remember each other. No email, no password, no profile, no central user database. There is nothing to sign up for and 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 when a relay is needed to cross a strict NAT, it forwards ciphertext it cannot decrypt. 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.

Up to 6K at 120 FPS, display switching included

Streams run up to 6K at 120 FPS on hardware H.265, with H.264 fallback — and display switching, with a dedicated virtual display sized to your device, is fully supported. Hosts run on macOS 15+, Windows 10 (build 19041+)/11 and Linux (X11 and Wayland); 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).