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• True 4:4:4 color — now live from a Mac, or from a Windows PC with NVIDIA or recent Intel graphics, to Mac, Windows, iPhone and iPad (more pairs on the way)
• Deeper controller support
• Built for people. Ready for agents.

v3.4 2026-10

Pair in one tap, play your way, and check on a Mac without connecting

An iPhone or iPad now pairs with a Mac on your Wi‑Fi in one tap. Game mode sets a session up for playing, and you can put buttons of your own on the Control Board. Every Mac gets a live Computer card, Lock Remio keeps your computers behind your fingerprint or face, and a second display now works away from home too — straight between your devices, never through a relay.

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• Pair with one tap — An iPhone or iPad finds a Mac running Remio Host on the same Wi‑Fi. Tap it, check that both screens show the same code, and click Allow on the Mac — no QR code, nothing to type. Needs the latest Remio Host on the Mac.
• Game mode — One switch sets up a session for playing — the highest frame rate your screen shows — and Remio remembers it for each computer. On iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, Android and Apple TV.
• Buttons of your own — On the Control Board, make buttons where a press, a double press or a hold plays a shortcut, types text or waits. Six are free. With Remio Pro: as many as you like, buttons that show only while one app is in front, ready-made sets for Xcode, VS Code, Photoshop and Blender, and steps that open an app, lock or sleep the computer or run a script the computer’s owner has allowed. On iPhone, iPad and Android; scripts need the latest Remio Host.
• Check on a Mac without connecting — A paired Mac’s Computer card shows its processor, memory, battery, disks and running apps, live, with no session open. End a stuck app from the card; Remio asks first. On iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, with the latest Remio Host on the Mac.
• Lock Remio — Turn it on in Settings and Remio asks for your fingerprint, face or passcode when it opens, so someone who borrows your device can’t reach your computers. A session that’s running keeps running. On iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows.
• Zoom with a mini-map — Zoomed in past 1.5× on iPhone, iPad and Android, a small map shows where you are on the screen; touch or drag it to move there. With the latest Remio Host, the computer sends only the part you’re looking at, so zooming uses less data on mobile connections. The Mac and Windows apps zoom a one-screen session too.
• View only, screenshots and Text on screen — Watch a computer without anything you do reaching it, save its screen as a picture on your device, or read the text in its picture right on your device — nothing is sent anywhere. View only is on every app; screenshots and Text on screen on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows.
• A second display, at home or away — An iPhone, iPad, Android device, Mac, Windows PC or Apple TV can be a second display for your computer over any direct connection, not only on the same Wi‑Fi: across the street, at the office, on mobile data. It never goes through Remio’s relay. Needs the latest Remio Host.
• Up to five screens at once — With Remio Pro, choose Number of screens in the Mac or Windows app to work on up to five screens of a computer at once, each as big as one of your own screens. Needs a direct connection and the latest Remio Host on the computer.
• USB accessories on Windows and Linux computers — With Remio Pro, plug a controller, wheel or flight stick into the Mac or Windows PC you connect from, open Accessories and click Send: games on the Windows PC or Linux computer you control see the real device. Needs the latest Remio Host.
• Your own commands on the computer — Remio Host on a Mac, a Windows PC or Linux can run a command of your choice when a device connects or leaves. A command you give a name can sit behind a custom button on your iPhone, iPad or Android device (Remio Pro).

Improved

• Up to 240 frames a second — On the Mac and Windows apps with a display faster than 120 Hz, the frame-rate limit now goes up to your display’s speed, up to 240 fps, when the computer you control supports it and runs the latest Remio Host. If it can’t keep up, the frame rate steps down on its own.
• Lock mouse locks itself for games — With Remio Pro, Lock mouse turns on by itself when a game on a Windows PC or a Linux X11 desktop takes the mouse to aim, and lets go when the game does. Needs the latest Remio Host.
• Each computer keeps its own settings — Control style, pointer speed, frame rate and sound are remembered for each computer, so your gaming PC and your work Mac each come back the way you left them.
• Sharper color on more devices — True 4:4:4 color now also works on an iPhone or iPad that decodes it in hardware, from a Mac with Apple silicon or a Windows PC with NVIDIA or recent Intel graphics. Turn it on in a session’s Video settings.

Fixed

• Fixed the sound running a third of a second or more behind the picture when a session opened while the computer was playing sound.
• Fixed a two-finger scroll stopping halfway on iPhone, iPad and Android — a scroll now stays a scroll unless your fingers clearly spread.
• Fixed a Remio link opening a computer without asking — it now asks before taking the computer from someone using it.
• Fixed Remio for Windows growing in memory with every session and closing unexpectedly in a few places.

v3.3 2026-10-14

Every screen in its own window, a mouse made for games, and Ctrl+Alt+Del from anywhere

A computer with several screens now opens each of them in a window of its own. Lock mouse turns the camera in first-person games the way it would at the desk. Remio for Windows opens several computers at once, restarts a PC for you and sends Ctrl+Alt+Del, and a phone away from home now reaches your Mac directly more often. Remio 3.3 for iPhone, iPad and Mac is rolling out on the App Store.

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• Each screen in its own window — When the computer you control has two or more screens, turn on Each screen in its own window in the Displays panel and every screen opens in a window of its own. The pointer works in every window, and you can drag from one into the next. Works from the Mac app to a Mac and from Remio for Windows to a Windows PC, with Remio Host 3.3.0 on the computer you control.
• Lock mouse for games — Lock the mouse to the game and aim as if you were sitting at that computer: your movements turn the camera in first-person games, and clicks act where you aim. From Remio for Windows to a Windows PC, and from a Mac or an iPad with a mouse to a Mac, with Remio Host 3.3.0. Part of Remio Pro.
• Several computers at once on Windows — Open another computer while you’re connected and Remio for Windows opens it in a window of its own beside the first, instead of ending that session. Up to five at a time.
• Ctrl+Alt+Del and Restart, from your device — Get past “Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to sign in”, lock the PC or open Task Manager: press Ctrl+Alt+End in Remio for Windows. Remio for Windows can also restart the PC you control — apps are asked to close, never forced — and reconnects by itself when it’s back.
• Type your clipboard where paste can’t reach — Type clipboard text types what you copied key by key, for sign-in screens and apps that block paste. Up to 1,000 characters; long or multi-line text asks first, and Stop typing halts it. On iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows.
• View only and screenshots — Watch the computer without your mouse, keyboard or game controller reaching it, or save the screen you’re viewing as a picture — on the Mac and in Remio for Windows.
• Quit apps on your Mac from your device — In a session, right-click or long-press a running app under Apps and choose Quit. If it’s still open a few seconds later, Remio offers Force Quit. Needs Remio Host 3.3.0 on a Mac.
• Devices away from home connect directly — A phone on mobile data or a laptop in a hotel now more often reaches your Mac directly instead of through the slower relay. Remio Host asks your router to open a port for that connection and closes it again when the device disconnects. It’s on by default and works with routers that allow it.

Improved

• Sharper text once the screen settles — After you open a page or switch apps, the picture sharpens a moment after the screen goes still. Needs Remio Host 3.3.0 on a Mac.
• Every pixel on large displays — In full screen on a 16-inch MacBook Pro, a 4K monitor or a 5K or 6K display, the Mac you control now sends the picture at your display’s full resolution, so small text is crisper.
• Sharper colored text from Windows — Small colored text and thin colored lines keep their color on your device, most visibly on PCs with AMD graphics.
• Waits for a computer that drops off — If the computer loses its network mid-session, Remio keeps reconnecting for up to a minute and picks the session back up by itself.
• Tell a slow computer from a slow connection — Stats and Info now show Host processing: how long your computer takes to capture its screen and send it, not counting the network.
• The pairing code changes once it’s used — As soon as a device pairs with your Mac, Remio Host replaces the code and QR code on screen, so a code someone else saw can’t pair another device. Devices you’ve already paired stay paired.
• Your screen stays on during a session — Your iPhone, iPad or Mac no longer dims or locks while you’re connected, even when you’re only watching or playing with a controller. Turn it off in Settings to save battery.
• Remote Desktop and Remio get along — On a PC whose user is signed in through Remote Desktop, a session starts in 1–2 seconds instead of about 6, and a Remote Desktop connection mid-session no longer ends it.

Fixed

• Fixed sessions failing on some routers and office networks — some throw away traffic marked as high priority, and Remio no longer marks its traffic that way.
• Fixed connecting when your device’s date and time were more than a few minutes off.
• Fixed Caps Lock typing lower-case letters on a Mac, and Shift-click and Ctrl-click from a Windows PC arriving as plain clicks.
• Fixed the computer’s sound going silent on iPhone and iPad after a phone call or Siri.
• Fixed a brief connection drop locking your Mac — with Lock when session ends turned on, a device now has 30 seconds to reconnect.

v3.2 2026-10-12

Second Display: the device in your hand becomes another screen

Your iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet, Mac, Apple TV or Windows PC can now extend your computer’s desktop instead of copying it. iPhone and iPad put your computers on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and in Control Center, iPhone Duo turns into a mini laptop on the desk, and Apple TV gets every session control. Every Remio Host gets steadier along the way.

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• Second Display — Turn an iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet, Mac, Windows PC or Apple TV into an extra screen for a Mac, a Windows PC or a Linux computer. It extends the desktop instead of copying it: the computer’s own screens stay on, you drag windows onto it like onto any other display, and it shows the computer’s pointer. Up to three devices can each add a screen, even while another device is in control. It works over your local network only. How Second Display works.
• Your computers on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and in Control Center — Add a widget for one computer or see two, four or eight at a glance on iPhone and iPad; tap one and Remio connects. The Connect to Computer control works from Control Center, the Lock Screen, the Action button and Shortcuts.
• Built for iPhone Duo, with a desk mode — Open the Duo and the desktop grows to fill the inner display without reconnecting. Stand it half-open on a table and it becomes a mini laptop: your computer’s desktop above the hinge, the keyboard below.
• Every session control on Apple TV — Switch screens, set the resolution, open apps, check the connection, blank or lock the computer, Picture in Picture, and Wake Up for a sleeping computer — without leaving the stream.
• Send Ctrl+Alt+Del from a Mac — While you control a Windows computer, choose Edit › Send Ctrl+Alt+Del to reach its sign-in or security screen.
• Your reports, inside the app — Settings › Your reports shows the problems you sent and Remio’s answers, so you can follow up without email.

Improved

• Smoother picture on busy networks — Remio Host no longer resends the whole screen every 30 seconds, which caused brief stutters on slower Wi‑Fi.
• Faster recovery when part of the picture is lost — When part of the picture is lost, it is replaced much sooner instead of leaving the picture frozen for up to three seconds.
• Up to 120 frames per second on more Windows PCs — PCs where Remio Host uses Windows’ own screen capture now keep up with 120 Hz devices.
• Updates no longer end your session — When Remio Host for Windows updates itself or restarts, connected devices reconnect on their own within seconds.
• A still screen no longer looks like a bad connection — When nothing on screen is changing, Remio Host says Idle instead of showing a poor connection in red.
• Told at once when another device takes over — When two devices connect at the same moment, the one that loses sees it right away instead of a connection error 15 seconds later.

Fixed

• Fixed sessions from a signed-in device ending on their own after about an hour.
• Fixed a Windows PC forgetting every paired device after a power cut.
• Fixed a black screen on iPhone, iPad and Mac from some PCs with Intel graphics.
• Fixed Remio Host restarting again and again on Macs whose keychain was slow to answer.

v3.1.0 2026-10-01

HDR from your Mac, pictures on the clipboard, and Remio Pro

Your Mac’s desktop now reaches an iPhone, iPad or Mac in HDR, pictures copy in both directions, and the iPhone app keeps your session on the Lock Screen. Remio Pro arrives too — $1.99 a month, with a 7-day free trial — and everything that was free before Remio Pro stays free, forever.

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• HDR streaming — On a Mac with Apple silicon, an iPhone, iPad or Mac with an HDR screen sees your desktop with the brightness and color it really has. Turn on HDR in the device’s stream settings.
• Copy pictures, not just text — Copy an image on one side and paste it on the other, in both directions. Remio Host’s new Clipboard section shows everything that crossed during the session, and on iPhone and iPad a Clipboard panel sends or gets the clipboard when you choose. Pictures need Remio 3.1 on both sides; text works with every version.
• Your session on the Lock Screen — On iPhone, a Live Activity, in the Dynamic Island too, shows which computer you’re on and for how long while you’re in another app, and tells you at once if the connection drops.
• A real Windows key on iPhone and iPad — On a Windows or Linux computer, the bar above the keyboard has a Windows / Super key for the Start menu and tiling desktops.
• Remio Pro — One optional subscription, $1.99 a month with a 7-day free trial: extra virtual displays, a controller you remap with a profile for every game, files in both directions on any connection, and choosing which speaker your computer plays through. See what’s included.

Improved

• Smoother scrolling — Scrolling with a mouse wheel or trackpad stops cleanly at the edge of a page and lands where you aimed.
• Faster reconnects — When your Mac’s network changes, Remio Host is reachable again on the new network straight away.
• Clear answers when a direct connection is blocked — Remio says why, including when your internet provider shares one address between many homes.

Fixed

• Fixed Remio Host freezing when you switched back to it, and a rare crash after a day or more of sharing.
• Fixed “Take Over Session” appearing on every connect after your connection dropped and came back.
• Fixed extra displays disappearing mid-session, and the pointer missing parts of a display placed beside or above your main screen.
• Fixed empty files failing to send.

Also in Remio 3.1

• Windows — Remio Host for Windows adds extra displays you create from your device, HDR from a PC with an HDR display, pictures on the clipboard in both directions, and a choice of which speaker the sound comes from — with the PC’s own speakers kept quiet while you stream. Remio for Windows shows HDR on an HDR monitor and gets a Clipboard panel.
• Linux, Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD — Extra displays from your device, the computer kept quiet while you stream, Remio keeps itself up to date, and 120 Hz devices stream at 120. On Linux, a PlayStation controller reaches games as a DualShock 4, and NVIDIA graphics cards encode the picture in hardware.
• Android — Your session stays in your notifications while you’re elsewhere, with an End button; HDR from a Mac with Apple silicon on a phone or tablet with an HDR screen; pictures on the clipboard; and a real Windows key.

Linux Host v3.0.0 2026-09-25

The new Host window comes to Linux, Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD

Everything the Mac host gained in 3.0 now runs on Linux, Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD: a Host window with a sidebar and a real page behind every item, files in both directions with a history for each device, a Devices page that remembers what happened, and a pairing code that expires after five minutes. On top of that you can choose which speaker the sound comes from, Remio lives in your system tray, and it restarts itself if it ever stops.

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• A Host window you can navigate — Connect, File sharing, Devices, Permissions and Settings each have a page of their own in a sidebar, instead of one screen that changed on its own. The session panel shows packet loss, jitter and how many times the picture froze, next to bitrate and latency.
• Files in both directions — Send files to the device you are connected from and receive the files it sends back. Drop them on the page or on the session card, or pick several at once and they queue up. Every transfer keeps a line in the history under the name of its device, so a file you were sent last week opens with one click.
• A file arriving while this computer is locked waits for you — If the screen locks mid-transfer, the file pauses instead of landing on your disk with nobody at the keyboard, and picks up where it stopped when you unlock.
• See where each device’s access came from — Devices are grouped by how they got in: paired with a code on this computer, or trusted because they are signed in to your account. Open one to see its model, system, app version and screen, give it a name of your own, or take its access away — blocked from this computer, or removed from your account.
• A log of what happened with your devices — Thirty days of pairings, refused attempts, wrong codes, session takeovers and revocations, in plain language. A badge appears on Devices when something worth reading happened while you were away.
• Your pairing code expires — The six-digit code lasts five minutes, shows its countdown and renews itself. Five wrong attempts replace it immediately.
• Pick the speaker the sound comes from — The device you connect from lists this computer’s speakers and headphones, so you can stream the one you want. Left alone, Remio streams whatever the computer is playing through.
• In your system tray, in your language, and back on its own — The tray menu starts or stops sharing and opens the window; Settings › Language switches between eight languages on the spot; and if Remio Host ever crashes or stops responding, it restarts by itself, so this computer never quietly drops off your devices.
• Set up in under a minute — The first time Remio Host opens, it walks you through signing in, allowing screen sharing where your desktop asks for it, and starting with your computer.

Improved

• The sound follows you when you switch speakers — Plug in headphones or switch outputs during a session and the sound comes along, instead of going quiet on the device you are connected from.
• Your audio quality setting now applies — A higher or lower audio quality on your device changes what this computer sends, and turning the sound off stops it sending at all.
• A dropped network no longer ends your session — If the network on either side blinks for a moment, your device picks the session back up instead of starting over.
• A steadier picture over slower connections — Hardware video encoding now follows the speed of your connection instead of falling further and further behind what is on screen.
• New versions are noticed within the hour — Remio checks for an update every hour instead of every six.

Fixed

• Fixed Remio Host never coming online on Fedora, Arch, openSUSE and other distributions — the AppImage, .rpm, Arch and Flatpak packages now find this computer’s security certificates wherever the distribution keeps them.
• Fixed losing hardware video encoding on Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13 and other newer distributions.
• Fixed being asked to allow screen sharing every time Remio started on a Wayland desktop — the permission you gave is now remembered.
• Fixed a tiny desktop when connecting from a Retina Mac or an iPad to a GNOME desktop.
• Fixed a microphone being picked up instead of this computer’s sound when the speakers it was playing through were unplugged.
• Fixed text and shortcuts arriving changed, and copies getting lost between copy and paste.
• Fixed odd resolutions piling up in your display settings after every session.
• Fixed this computer vanishing from your account — it now restores itself every time it starts.

v3.0.0 2026-09-21

Everything on your Mac finds a place — and files go both ways

Remio Host used to be a QR code with panels stacked over it, each appearing and disappearing on its own. It now works the way System Settings does: a sidebar, and a real screen behind every item, so anything you found once you can find again. Files travel in both directions with a history kept per device. And the six-digit code on screen stops being valid after five minutes.

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• A Host window you can navigate — Connect, File sharing, Devices, Permissions and Settings each have their own screen in a sidebar, instead of floating panels over a QR code. The window also keeps the height you drag it to.
• Files in both directions — Send a file to the device you are connected from, and receive files it sends back. Every transfer keeps a line in the history under the name of the device it came from, so a file you were sent last week opens in Finder with one click — or goes back to the same device with another.
• A file arriving while your Mac is locked waits for you — If your Mac locks mid-transfer, the file pauses with a countdown rather than landing on your disk with nobody at the keyboard, then picks up exactly where it stopped when you unlock.
• See what each device actually is — Devices are grouped by how they got in: paired with a code on this Mac, or trusted because they are signed in to your account. Open one to see its model, system, app version, screen and how it connects — and give it a name of your own.
• Two different ways to take access away — Block from this Mac keeps a device on your account but stops it reaching this computer. Remove from account signs it out everywhere. The buttons now say which one you are about to do.
• A log of what happened with your devices — Thirty days of pairings, refused attempts, wrong codes, session takeovers and revocations, in plain language, per device and across the Mac. A badge appears on Devices when something worth reading happened while you were away.
• Permissions you can find before something breaks — The Permissions screen is always in the sidebar, showing what each permission is for and where it stands. When a macOS update quietly stops one from working, the page says so and tells you to switch it off and back on, rather than sending you to allow something already allowed. Granting a permission in System Settings is noticed within seconds — no restart.
• Your pairing code expires — The six-digit code now lasts five minutes, shows its countdown and rotates itself. Five wrong attempts replace it immediately and tell you it happened. A code left on screen all afternoon was a code anyone on the network could keep guessing at.
• Let your own devices skip the code — A switch in Settings lets devices signed in to your account connect without pairing. On by default.

Improved

• Less waiting before the first frame — Preparing the display on the way into a session dropped from 1.69 to 0.76 seconds — time your device used to spend showing “Connecting…”.
• The session panel says what the connection is doing — Packet loss, jitter and how many times the picture froze now sit next to bitrate and latency, so a session that feels wrong can be pointed at something.
• When another device takes over, the window says so — Handing a session across now names the device that took it and marks it as the new owner, instead of silently swapping who is in control.
• One name for each permission, everywhere — “Screen sharing” and “Mouse and keyboard control” are called that on every screen. Apple’s own wording appears only inside the step-by-step instructions, word for word as macOS writes it, so what you read matches what you are looking for over there.

Fixed

• Fixed a Mac with a cable and Wi‑Fi both connected hosting over Wi‑Fi — the wired connection now takes precedence.
• Fixed your monitors coming back in the wrong order — a display arranged to the left returned on the right, and vertical offsets were lost, leaving your mouse crossing between screens the wrong way. Remio now records where every display sits and puts them back exactly.
• Fixed a left click opening the right-click menu — after any shortcut using Control, every click behaved as a Control-click for the rest of the session.
• Fixed copying on your device and pasting on the Mac giving you the old text — every copy now lands, and your Mac’s clipboard is no longer replaced by the device’s the moment you connect.
• Fixed the Host freezing seconds after a device connects — on a Mac sharing an iCloud account with another Apple device, something copied over there could stop the Host dead.
• Fixed the Host quitting when a device offered an impossible file — oversized files are refused with a message instead.
• Fixed the window getting shorter every time you opened it, and forgetting the height you set.
• Fixed reconnecting from the same device resetting the session clock after a brief network drop.
• Fixed a failed transfer you could not retry, and files under a kilobyte reporting themselves as “0 KB”.

v2.6.3 2026-08-20

A cursor on every computer, and a Mac that connects twice as fast

The pointer is back on Windows and Linux computers, where turning on “Show host cursor” had been leaving you with no cursor at all. The Mac client now reaches a computer in about half the time it used to. And on the Mac host, a crash that could end a session with computer audio on is fixed, along with a “Show host cursor” switch that quietly did nothing.

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Improved

• The Mac client connects more than twice as fast — Clicking a computer and waiting for its screen took about 2.9 seconds on a local network; it now takes about 1.4, and the occasional much longer wait is gone entirely.
• A sharper picture through a forwarded port — When a device reaches a Mac through a port you have forwarded on your router, the host now watches how the connection is holding up and steps quality up as it proves itself, instead of staying cautious all session. On a real connection from outside the office, quality climbed from 3.7 to 9.8 Mbps within two minutes.
• “How to connect directly” opens the full guide — On iPhone, iPad, and Mac, the router-by-router walkthrough opens directly, instead of the short summary card that had fallen behind the real instructions.

Fixed

• Fixed the cursor disappearing on Windows and Linux computers — With “Show host cursor” turned on, Remio stopped drawing the pointer and waited for the computer to send its own. Windows and Linux computers do not send one, so you were left with no cursor at all — on iPhone, iPad, and Mac alike.
• Fixed the Mac host quitting mid-session with computer audio on — Ending or switching a session while sound was streaming could shut the host down without warning, taking the session with it.
• Fixed “Show host cursor” doing nothing when you switched it on — Turning the setting on in the first moment of a session was quietly dropped on the Mac host, and it reverted on its own if the session recovered from an interruption.
• Fixed Remio for Mac quitting when you switch desktops — Moving between Spaces during a full-screen session could close the app outright.
• Fixed pairing failing once before it worked — On iPhone and iPad, typing a six-digit PIN sent the first four digits to the computer before the finished code, so every pairing burned a failed attempt on the way in.
• Fixed the first-run control card getting trapped behind the keyboard — On iPhone, the card that appears the first time you stream could sit underneath the keyboard with its button out of reach and no other way past it.
• Fixed the Mac host claiming more connected devices than there are — Reconnecting from the same device, or handing a session to a second one, left a phantom entry behind.
• Fixed lines that stayed in English — Two lines on the iPhone Home screen and five in the Mac streaming window ignored your language while everything around them was translated.
• Fixed Advanced settings drawing through the close button — On iPhone and iPad, scrolling Advanced settings pushed rows over the × and the title.

v2.5.0 2026-08-09

See every computer at a glance. Drop files right in.

The Home screen gets a grid view on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android; the Mac client can now receive files dragged straight onto the streaming window; and Mac and Windows both get a full Advanced settings page. Alongside all that, a handful of the most disruptive bugs are gone — no more double-size cursors, no more two pointers on screen, and network hiccups on Mac, Windows, and Linux hosts no longer interrupt the picture.

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• See all your computers as a grid — On iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android, a new layout shows every paired computer as a large live preview instead of the spinning ring — much easier to scan once you have more than a couple. Remio remembers which layout you prefer.
• Drag files straight onto the computer you're controlling — On Mac, drop one or more files anywhere on the streaming window and they land in that computer's Downloads › Remio folder, with a progress count as they go.
• A full Advanced settings page, now on Mac and Windows too — Quality presets that genuinely cap bandwidth and frame rate, plus audio quality, cursor and clipboard options, auto-reconnect, and the direct-connection port — already on iPhone and Android, now on both desktop clients as well.
• "Command key sends the Windows key" — A new Windows Host setting for anyone driving a PC from a keyboard laid out the Mac way: turn it on and a remote ⌘ becomes the real Windows key, so Start and its shortcuts finally respond.

Improved

• Lighter on your battery when Remio isn't on screen — On the Mac host and Mac client alike, animations now stop completely while the window is minimized, hidden, or covered by another app — the single biggest source of idle power draw, gone.
• The frame-rate slider on iPhone and iPad now does what it says — Choosing 120 frames per second really gives you 120 on a ProMotion screen; before, it quietly stayed at 60 no matter what you picked.
• Your computers on Android, ordered by what you can actually reach — Computers ready to connect come first, then your favourites, then the ones you used most recently.

Fixed

• Fixed the cursor and interface looking twice their size — Connecting from a small window, or a smaller-screened device, could render everything inside the stream at double size on Mac and iPhone/iPad alike, so the cursor stopped matching where you pointed.
• Fixed two cursors chasing each other on screen — With "Show host cursor" turned on, Remio kept drawing its own pointer on top of the computer's — on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• A brief network hiccup no longer interrupts the picture — A momentary blip used to blank the screen and rebuild the whole session on Mac, Windows, and Linux hosts alike. The picture now simply refreshes and carries on — and if it doesn't recover by itself, Remio now notices and restores it within seconds.
• Fixed keys and buttons staying stuck after another device takes over a session — Anything the previous device was holding down could stay pressed on the computer afterwards — fixed on the Mac and Windows hosts.
• Fixed a PC wrongly stuck at "the sign-in screen" — On a Windows PC reached over Remote Desktop, or a rented cloud PC, Remio Host could stay convinced nobody was signed in for the whole session — and keep clipboard sync, file transfer, and app launching switched off the entire time. Fixed.
• "Reveal in folder" reliably shows you the file — On both Mac and Windows, opening the folder where a received file landed could open nothing, or open on a screen you couldn't see. It now opens right where you're looking, with the file selected.
• Fixed Remio for Windows crashing every time you closed it — Quitting the app ended in a crash rather than a clean exit; it now closes properly every time.

Apple TV Client v2.5.0 2026-08-09

Remio comes to the biggest screen in your home

The first Apple TV release, streaming a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer with the same low-latency engine that powers Remio on iPhone and Mac. Control from the couch with the Siri Remote touchpad, or plug in a game controller and Remio turns it into a full pointer.

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Added

• Remio comes to Apple TV — Stream your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer straight to the biggest screen in your home, with the same low-latency engine that powers Remio on iPhone and Mac.
• Control from your couch — Glide the pointer with the Siri Remote touchpad — tap to click, hold and slide to drag, press and hold to right-click. Bluetooth mice and keyboards work too.
• Your game controller becomes a full pointer — A DualShock or DualSense controller's touchpad behaves exactly like a laptop trackpad; on any other controller, hold Menu for a moment to turn the sticks into a mouse, then hold it again to switch back to playing.
• Your computers, already there — Sign in with the same account you use on iPhone or Mac and every paired computer appears automatically, each with a live preview of its screen so you know what you're connecting to.

Linux Host v2.5.0 2026-08-09

Linux catches up — and comes to Raspberry Pi

Version numbers are now shared across every Remio app, so the Linux host jumps straight from 1.1.3 to 2.5.0 — landing at parity with every other platform in one release: Wayland input, five native install formats, email & password sign-in, a forwardable connection port, and, for the first time, Remio running on a Raspberry Pi.

Linux Host

Added

• Remio Host runs on Raspberry Pi — Native builds for Raspberry Pi OS, 64-bit and 32-bit, as a .deb or an AppImage. Turn a Pi into a computer you can reach from your phone, tablet, or laptop like any other.
• Install straight from your distro's package manager — Alongside the AppImage, Remio Host now ships .deb (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS), .rpm (Fedora, RHEL/Alma/Rocky, openSUSE), an Arch/Manjaro package, and a Flatpak — one download, one install command, clean uninstall.
• Sign in with email & password — Create a Remio account with just an email address and password, right from the host — no Google or Apple account needed.
• Reachable through a connection port you forward — Forward a single UDP port to this computer on your router, and a connecting device can come in through exactly that port instead of a relay — noticeably quicker and sharper, especially from outside your home or office.
• Remio in your language — Now follows your system language: French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, and Brazilian Portuguese, joining English and Vietnamese.
• Controllers now work as native game controllers — Up to four at once, each in its own player slot, with vibration sent back to the player's hands.
• Lock this computer when the session ends — A new setting locks it automatically once a remote device disconnects, so an unattended machine isn't left open. Off by default.

Improved

• Type in any language on Wayland desktops — Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, emoji — text your keyboard layout can't produce directly now arrives correctly instead of being silently dropped.
• The cursor you see is the real one — On Wayland desktops, the stream used to show a default arrow no matter what your computer was actually doing; it now shows the true cursor shape.
• A locked computer now stays properly locked — Clipboard sync, file transfer, and app launching are all switched off the moment your screen locks, until you actually sign in.

Fixed

• Fixed a crash when closing the app, and another right as a device disconnects — Both could knock this computer offline until someone relaunched Remio Host. Both are gone, and the app now always closes cleanly.
• Screen sharing recovers by itself — If your desktop's screen-sharing service wasn't ready when Remio Host started, every connection used to end in a black screen with a "needs setup" message. It now quietly keeps retrying and picks up streaming the moment your desktop is ready.

v2.4.0 2026-08-01

Sign in with just an email and password

Every Remio app now lets you create an account with nothing but an email address and a password — no Google or Apple sign-in required. Already using Remio as a guest? Add an email and password to your existing setup and every paired computer carries over.

macOS Host iOS Client Mac Client Android Client Windows Host Windows Client

Added

• Sign in with email & password, everywhere — macOS Host, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Android, and Windows all support creating a Remio account with just an email and password. Already signed in? Add one to your existing account and every pairing carries over.

Improved

• Clearer guidance when an update is needed — On iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android, if this app or the computer you're connecting to is running a version too old to connect safely, Remio now tells you exactly which side needs updating instead of failing with a generic error.
• Critical updates install themselves — On Mac, when a host's version becomes too old for devices to connect safely, it now updates itself right away instead of sitting unreachable on an outdated version.

Fixed

• Fixed a crash when closing the Windows app — Quitting or restarting Remio Host could crash it at the very last moment; on some PCs this happened on every single exit. It now always closes cleanly.
• Fixed a rare crash when your audio device changes — Plugging in headphones or switching speakers mid-session could, in unlucky timing, bring down the Windows host. Audio now hands over to the new device reliably.

v2.3.0–2.3.2 2026-07-29

Reach your computer at its sign-in screen

A computer that restarted overnight used to be unreachable until someone walked over and signed in. Your paired devices can now reach it right at the sign-in screen — see the screen, type the password from your phone, and land on the desktop, with the session picking itself back up once the computer finishes starting. Plus six new languages, up to four game controllers with rumble, and a connection port you can forward for a faster, direct connection.

macOS Host iOS Client Mac Client Android Client Windows Host Windows Client

Added

• Connect at the sign-in screen, before anyone signs in — On Mac and Windows, paired devices can now reach a computer that just restarted right at its sign-in screen: see the screen, type the password from your phone or iPad, and land on the desktop. The session picks itself back up automatically once the computer finishes starting up. On by default, and only devices you've already paired can connect.
• Remio in your language — French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, and Brazilian Portuguese, joining English and Vietnamese, across every host and client.
• Up to four game controllers, with rumble — Each connected controller gets its own player slot — up to four at once — and vibration comes back from the game to the player's hands.
• Choose the connection port — If you've forwarded a port to your computer on its router, tell Remio to use that exact port (Settings ▸ Advanced ▸ Direct connection port) for a direct connection instead of a relay — quicker and sharper, especially away from home. Leave it empty and Remio keeps choosing automatically, exactly as before.
• A real hardware keyboard now works like one — On iPhone, iPad, and Android, using a hardware keyboard finally sends every key: tapping ⌘, Alt, or the Windows key on its own registers, and multi-key shortcuts go through exactly as typed.
• Lock the computer when the session ends — A new setting locks it automatically once a remote device disconnects, so an unattended machine isn't left open. Off by default.
• New Advanced settings — Streaming quality presets that genuinely cap bandwidth and frame rate, so you can trade sharpness for data on a hotspot.

Improved

• A clearer, tidier Settings panel — Reorganized into clear sections, with every switch explaining exactly what it does.
• A locked computer now stays properly locked — Clipboard sync, file transfer, and app launching are all switched off the moment the screen locks, until you actually sign in.

Fixed

• A locked computer now explains itself properly — Instead of an unexplained lock screen, Remio now tells you plainly that the computer is locked, and whether you're allowed to unlock it from here.
• The Windows key behaves on Windows and Linux computers — Shortcuts no longer get swallowed by a phantom held-down Windows/Super key, and the Start menu no longer pops open on its own.
• Fixed the app quitting suddenly on some networks — A connection reset at just the wrong moment used to silently close Remio mid-session; it now rides those resets out and reconnects normally.

iOS Client v2.2.6 2026-07-22

Your finger, back in control

A touch-input regression on iOS 18 could leave the picture live and the keyboard typing while nothing you tapped or swiped reached your computer. Touch and pointer control now work the same way on every supported iOS version.

iOS Client

Fixed

• Touch control works again on iOS 18 — On iPhones and iPads still running iOS 18, swiping on the screen didn't move the pointer at all: the picture was live and the keyboard still typed, but nothing you did with your finger or a connected mouse reached your computer.

Android Client v2.2.6 2026-07-21

Pairing that finally sticks

Some Android devices got stuck on "Pairing Removed" for good, and scanning the QR code or typing the PIN again didn't help. Re-pairing now reliably restores the connection, every time.

Android Client

Fixed

• Fixed "Pairing Removed" that wouldn't go away — Android devices could be told they were no longer paired with the computer, and pairing again with the QR code or PIN didn't help. Pairing now works reliably, and re-pairing always restores the connection.

macOS Host v2.2.5 2026-07-20

Stays online when it matters

Three quiet annoyances, gone: connections that silently died on certain networks, an update screen that could get stuck for good, and a permission button that looked broken the moment you needed it most.

macOS Host

Fixed

• No more silent shutdowns on connect — On certain internet connections, Remio Host could silently close every time a device tried to connect, with no error and no crash report. The host now rides out these network resets and connects normally.
• "Update Required" no longer gets stuck — Once Remio Host had asked you to update, it could stay locked on that screen even after the requirement was lifted. It now returns to normal on its own.
• The "Grant Access" button always takes you somewhere — Clicking Grant Access a second time used to appear to do nothing. It now opens the exact System Settings page you need, every time.

Windows Host v2.2.5 2026-07-20

Control that gets through, color that's exact

Administrator windows used to swallow every click and keystroke sent from your phone — that's fixed, alongside the most common crash on Windows PCs. And on NVIDIA-powered PCs, a new toggle streams pixel-exact 4:4:4 color to your Mac, so colored text renders as crisp as sitting at the desk.

Windows Host Mac Client

Added

• True 4:4:4 color is here — Flip one switch and an NVIDIA-powered PC streams pixel-exact color to your Mac. Colored code themes and fine text render as crisp as sitting at the desk.
• Control keeps working over administrator windows — An installer, Task Manager, or any UAC-elevated app used to silently throw away every click and keystroke sent from your phone or tablet. Remio Host now sends your input through even in those windows.

Improved

• Full quality on cloud and rented PCs — Machines that refuse Remio's adaptive display no longer sink into a choppy half-rate mode; the Host now streams the real screen at full speed and native resolution.

Fixed

• Fixed the most common crash on Windows PCs — A timing problem at video startup could crash Remio Host and knock the PC offline. This was behind the majority of recent crash reports.
• PCs with a broken graphics driver now stream instead of saying "Offline" — Those PCs now stream using software video, and when streaming genuinely isn't possible, the Host says so plainly instead of blaming your connection.
• Fixed a stream stuck at one frame per second — A stalled graphics driver could leave the picture crawling as a slideshow. Remio now recovers from that too, not just a fully frozen picture.

Linux Host v1.1.0–1.1.3 2026-07-20

Wayland, done right

Screen sharing on Wayland — the default session on modern Ubuntu, Fedora, and most current Linux desktops — went from unsupported to a clear, one-time setup step. Approve the share prompt once and Remio remembers your choice for good.

Linux Host

Added

• Wayland support — Remio Host now shares your screen on Wayland using the system's own secure screen-sharing service. Xorg desktops keep working exactly as before, and remote mouse and keyboard control work on both.

Fixed

• Granting permission now actually sticks — Screen sharing could fail right after you granted permission, showing "needs setup" again and streaming black. The Host now works with your system's own screen-sharing stack, so granting once just works.

v0.5.0-beta 2026-02-09

The foundation

This is the one. After months of closed development, Remio opens its doors. The first public beta ships with the macOS Host and iOS Client — a full remote desktop experience that feels like the future.

macOS Host iOS Client

Added

• First public beta — available for everyone to try.
• macOS Host app — install on your Mac and stream from anywhere.
• iOS Client app — full remote control from your iPhone or iPad.
• PIN pairing — connect devices with a simple six-digit code, no accounts needed.
• Touch-to-input mapping — natural touch gestures translated to desktop interactions.

Improved

• Direct device-to-device streaming — your Mac talks straight to your iPhone or iPad. Minimal latency, no middlemen.
• Hardware-accelerated encoding — Apple Silicon does the heavy lifting for butter-smooth capture.

v0.4.0-alpha 2026-01-15

Going native

We made a hard call. We threw away the old cross-platform shell and rebuilt Remio as a real Mac app and a real iPhone app. It hurt. The result was 3x the performance and an experience we are finally proud of.

macOS Host iOS Client Mac Client

Added

• 100 percent native apps — Made for Mac, Made for iPhone and iPad, from the ground up.
• New streaming engine — completely redesigned for smoother, snappier video.
• Redesigned pairing flow — smoother, faster device connection.

Improved

• 3x faster frame delivery — no more cross-platform overhead between you and the screen.
• 50 percent lower memory usage — lean, purpose-built for each device.
• Instant app launch — cold start under 500 ms.

v0.3.0-alpha 2025-12-10

Moving data, our way

The invisible backbone that makes everything possible. We built Remio's own way of moving data between devices — fast, lean, and extensible enough to carry the project for years. Plus crystal-clear audio and smarter video.

macOS Host iOS Client

Added

• Audio streaming — low-latency, high-fidelity audio from your remote machine.
• Multi-codec support — H.264 for compatibility, H.265 for sharper picture at half the bandwidth.
• Adaptive bitrate — quality adjusts automatically to network conditions.

Improved

• Frames arrive faster — no parsing overhead between the wire and the screen.
• Lean data format cuts bandwidth use by roughly 40 percent.

v0.2.0-alpha 2025-11-04

First light

The moment we will never forget — seeing a remote screen appear on a phone for the first time. Laggy. Ugly. But it worked. This was the moment Remio became real.

macOS Host iOS Client

Added

• Basic screen capture — first working version of desktop-to-device streaming.
• First successful remote connection — two devices, one dream.
• Connection server — Remio's own service for helping devices find each other.
• Smart network routing so devices can reach each other through tricky networks.
• Live screen capture, the way macOS intends it.

v0.1.0 2025-10-01

Day one

Every product starts with a question. Ours was: why does every remote desktop tool feel like it was built in 2005? So we opened Xcode, created a new project, and started building the answer. No funding, no team — just conviction.

macOS Host

Added

• Project inception — first commit, first dream.
• Architecture design — host and client apps with a direct device-to-device link.
• Proof of concept — validated that low-latency streaming is achievable on Apple Silicon.
• Built native on Apple from day one, with our own connection server.