A native Jetpack Compose app, not a web wrapper. Hardware decode at 60 fps on your Pixel, Galaxy, or foldable — with S Pen, hardware keyboards, and mice all forwarded to the Mac. No Google account, no cloud middleman.
The Android client is written in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose — no WebView, no Flutter or React Native bridge in the rendering path. Video hardware-decodes through the MediaCodec API using your phone's own H.265 or H.264 decoder, then renders on a dedicated SurfaceView straight to the compositor with no texture copy. That's how it sustains a real 60 fps and cold-launches in under a second, with the battery barely warming.
Predictive back, edge-swipe navigation, and foldable hinge events all handled natively.
Multi-touch maps to Mac equivalents — two-finger scroll, pinch-to-zoom, three-finger system gestures, long-press for right-click. On a Galaxy tablet the S Pen works as a precise pointer — great for hitting small controls and placing a cursor exactly, though pressure-sensitive drawing in Procreate, Photoshop, or Clip Studio Paint is better suited to running natively on macOS. USB or Bluetooth keyboards and mice pass through as native macOS input, with Alt mapping to Option and the Windows key to Command.
Cmd-Tab, Cmd-Space, and copy-paste land on the Mac exactly as if you were sitting at it.
Two installs, one PIN, no account. No VPN, no port forwarding, no router homework.
On the Mac you want to reach (macOS 14 or later), download the host from remio.net/download. It's a signed, notarized SwiftUI app that captures with ScreenCaptureKit and encodes on VideoToolbox. Launch it once and grant Screen Recording and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security, then quit and relaunch.
Get the Android client from the Play Store, or open remio.net/download on the device. Launch it — no signup, no email confirmation. It opens straight to a pairing screen with a number pad and a QR scanner, and adapts its layout to a phone, tablet, or foldable automatically.
The Mac shows a six-digit code and a QR code. Scan or type it on the Android device. Remio picks the best route automatically — a direct peer-to-peer path on the same network, or an encrypted relay if a direct path isn't available. The Mac is one tap away from then on, no code to retype.
The same app adapts to whatever Android device is in your hand — with clipboard sync and synced audio riding along with the video.
A portrait-first phone UI, a landscape-first tablet UI, and a dedicated foldable layout that switches between cover-display phone mode and split tablet view via Android's WindowInfoTracker — no relearning between devices.
Copy on the Mac, paste on Android — and back. Text syncs over the same encrypted channel as the video, with no cloud-clipboard middleman.
The Mac's system audio streams to the Android speakers or Bluetooth headphones, latency-synced to the video — the export chime, the call, the video whose sound tells you it worked.
Every channel — video, clipboard, audio, files — is end-to-end encrypted. Pairing exchanges ephemeral keys with no Google account, and a relay, if ever used, forwards only ciphertext it cannot read.
Chrome Remote Desktop runs through a browser, requires a Google account, relays through Google's servers, and tops out around 30 fps. Remio is a native Android app that connects peer-to-peer with no account and sustains 60 fps with hardware decode — input feels like sitting at the Mac, not nudging a video feed. Works on Chromebooks that run Android apps, too, using the same MediaCodec pipeline.
Every feature is included, on every platform — nothing held back for a paid tier.
Five questions the Android-to-Mac direction tends to raise — honest answers below.
Install Remio Host on the Mac, install the Android client on your phone or tablet, pair once with a six-digit code — free, no Google account, no card.