A direct comparison across latency architecture, encryption, the account model, platform support, and pricing. LogMeIn — now sold under the GoTo brand as LogMeIn Pro, GoToMyPC, and Rescue — discontinued its free tier in January 2014; Remio is free, native, and no-account by design. Facts current as of July 2026, and we name where LogMeIn still wins.
Twenty rows across performance, security, the account model, platform support, and pricing. Where LogMeIn is genuinely strong — browser-based access, decades of enterprise trust, Rescue helpdesk tooling — the table says so.
| Capability | Remio | LogMeIn (GoTo) |
|---|---|---|
| Performance & streaming | ||
| Native LAN performance | 8 ms glass-to-glass (measured) | Not publicly benchmarked |
| Streaming resolution & frame rate | Up to 4K, 60–120 fps | Not specified for consumer tiers |
| Connection architecture | Direct P2P first, relay fallback only | Always routes through GoTo/LogMeIn cloud infrastructure |
| Native app vs browser access | 100% native apps only | Desktop apps; browser-based access is a primary workflow |
| Security | ||
| Transport encryption | DTLS 1.3 + SRTP | TLS-encrypted transport through vendor infrastructure |
| End-to-end encryption | AES-256-GCM end-to-end + ECDHE-Curve25519; relay never decrypts | No — session is decrypted at GoTo/LogMeIn's relay infrastructure |
| Public security documentation | Yes, on remio.net | Not published for consumer plans |
| Account & access | ||
| Account required | No — 4-digit one-time PIN | Yes — central account on every plan |
| Central credential database | None | Yes — GoTo/LogMeIn account system |
| Per-computer licensing | None — reach as many machines as you like | Yes — plans tiered by number of computers, billed annually |
| Unattended access | Included free — opt-in per host, plus Wake-on-LAN | Core of the product — paid plans only |
| File transfer | Built in, free | Included on paid plans |
| Platform support | ||
| macOS & Windows hosts | Native, including Windows Home editions | Windows and Mac hosts |
| iOS · iPadOS client | Native app | Mobile app available |
| Android client | Native app | Mobile app available |
| visionOS | Native (iPad app runs today) | No |
| Browser-only access | No — native apps only | Yes — a primary workflow |
| Pricing (July 2026) | ||
| Free tier | Everything is free — every feature, every platform | Discontinued January 2014; paid plans only since |
| Pricing model | $0, no tiers, no per-seat fee | Per-computer, annual subscription (LogMeIn Pro, GoToMyPC, Rescue); price varies by region |
| Commercial-use detection | None | Not applicable — paid from the start |
Remio wins on cost, end-to-end encryption, native performance, and the no-account model. LogMeIn (GoTo) wins on browser-based universal access and mature enterprise/helpdesk tooling. Here is the honest split.
You want unattended access and file transfer included at no cost, native apps that drive the hardware decoder directly instead of a browser tab, end-to-end encryption where no relay can decrypt your session, and a 4-digit PIN instead of yet another account to manage. Every feature is free, on every platform, with no per-computer counter running in the background.
You need to reach a machine from any browser with nothing installed — a real advantage on locked-down corporate machines — or you already run Rescue for supporting other people's devices, or your organization has two decades of process and admin controls built around the GoTo lineup. If browser access or mature helpdesk tooling is the actual requirement, LogMeIn remains the safer choice today.
Five categories, one paragraph each. The rows in the table above are the headline; the paragraphs below are the why.
LogMeIn practically invented mainstream remote access, and the products that carry the name — LogMeIn Pro, GoToMyPC, and Rescue, all under the GoTo brand today — remain capable and widely deployed. Rescue in particular is a mature, purpose-built helpdesk product for supporting other people's machines, with years of refinement behind its session-handling workflow. Remio has none of that institutional history; it is a newer, smaller product. For an IT department that has standardized on the GoTo lineup for a decade, that maturity is not nothing.
Browser-based access — connecting to a computer with nothing installed on the machine you're connecting from — is a real workflow for LogMeIn's products, and it solves a problem native apps cannot: on a locked-down corporate laptop where you cannot install software, a browser tab may be the only option available. Remio is a native-app-only product on both ends by design, which is what buys its latency and colour fidelity, but it is not the right tool when the connecting device cannot run a native client at all.
Remio runs DTLS 1.3 for media and AES-256-GCM for the data channel, negotiated end-to-end between your devices over ECDHE-Curve25519 — keys never leave the endpoints. LogMeIn's connections are TLS-encrypted in transit but always route through GoTo's cloud infrastructure, which sits inside the encryption boundary rather than outside it. LogMeIn does not publish a consumer-facing security whitepaper the way Remio does. For most casual sessions that distinction is invisible; for anyone who cares whether a third party can technically see their session, it matters.
Remio has no account. A four-digit PIN pairs two devices, the pairing record lives on each device, and there is no central login to reset a password on and no credential database for an attacker to target. LogMeIn requires a GoTo account on every plan, with every user's access tied to that central identity — reasonable for an IT department managing access across a team, but overhead with no benefit for someone reaching their own two or three machines.
Remio is free with no per-device tier, no commercial-use detection, and no upgrade path gating unattended access or file transfer behind a paid plan. LogMeIn's GoTo-branded products are sold as a per-computer, annual subscription — the specific price varies by plan and region, so we won't invent a number here, but the shape of the model is consistent: the bill scales with how many machines you reach, not with how much you use them. For someone who just needs to reach a couple of personal computers, that structural difference is the whole reason this page exists.
Remio streams a full desktop to a native app on every device — SwiftUI on Apple, Jetpack Compose on Android, C++/WinRT on Windows. No browser runtime in the rendering path: frames go from the hardware decoder to the screen the way the OS intends, which is where the sub-10 ms LAN latency and native colour fidelity come from.
Pair with a 4-digit PIN. No account, no per-computer bill.
People still search "LogMeIn free" more than a decade after it disappeared. Here is what actually happened, without inventing numbers GoTo hasn't published for this comparison.
In January 2014, LogMeIn announced it was retiring LogMeIn Free — the product that put remote access on millions of home and small-office machines — and gave free users a short window to move to a paid plan. The free tier never came back. For a lot of people it was the first time a tool they relied on every day simply stopped being free.
As of 2026, the LogMeIn products sit under the GoTo brand: LogMeIn Pro for individual remote access, GoToMyPC for the same job in different packaging, and Rescue for helpdesk-style support. The specific prices change and vary by region, so this page does not quote them — but the shape is consistent: a subscription priced per computer, billed annually, with tiers that gate how many machines you can reach. The cost scales with your fleet, not with how much you actually connect.
Per-computer pricing is rational for managed IT fleets. It is a poor fit for the original LogMeIn Free audience: a desktop at home, a laptop in a bag, maybe a parent's PC across town. Every added machine raises the bill, so the model taxes exactly the casual, multi-device habit that made remote access useful in the first place. Remio removes the counter entirely — one machine or ten, the price is the same: $0.
No exports, no migration, nothing to cancel first — Remio can run alongside LogMeIn while you test. Two installs, one PIN, and an optional toggle for unattended access.
On the computer you used to reach with LogMeIn — macOS 15+ or Windows 10 (build 19041+)/11, Home editions included — grab the host from the download page, launch it, and grant the screen-capture permission once.
iPhone or iPad (iOS/iPadOS 18+), another Mac (macOS 15+), an Android phone or tablet (Android 10+), a Windows 10/11 PC, or Apple Vision Pro via the iPad app — all from the same download page.
The host displays a 4-digit one-time PIN; type it into the client within 60 seconds — the pairing request expires after that — and the devices exchange keys over ECDHE-Curve25519 and remember each other. Reconnections are instant, no PIN required.
Flip on unattended access in the host settings — opt-in, per machine — so you can connect with nobody at the desk, and set up Wake-on-LAN to wake the machine from sleep first. The full walkthrough lives in the getting-started guide.
If you used LogMeIn's Rescue tools to support other people's machines, the use-cases guide shows how teams run attended and unattended help sessions with Remio — still free, still no account on either end.
The five questions people ask before they replace LogMeIn or GoToMyPC. Straight answers below.
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Download once, pair with a PIN, see the latency on your own LAN. No account, no email, no per-computer bill. If LogMeIn's Rescue tooling or browser-only access still serves your IT department better — and for a locked-down enterprise fleet, it might — you are out exactly five minutes.