Control Board
Keyboard, zoom, volume, files, apps, displays and settings on one sheet. Drag anything where your thumb lives; Remio remembers it.
✦Features
Not another viewer. What makes Remio feel different.
About 8 ms of processing latency on LAN, true trackpad feel, private by design — Remio feels like sitting at your desk, without ever touching the cloud.
~8 ms
of processing latency on LAN
120 fps
hardware H.265
E2E
encrypted, zero servers
10
native platforms
✦Comparison
Remio versus the typical remote desktop.
The same job, done without a cloud detour. Every number below is measured on a same-network peer-to-peer link.
| Capability | Remio | Typical remote desktop |
|---|---|---|
| LAN latency (processing) | ~8 ms (measured internally) | 30–80 ms via vendor cloud |
| Max resolution & frame rate | 6K at 120 fps | 1080p, capped on free tiers |
| Encryption | End-to-end encrypted | Server-terminated TLS |
| Account required | None — pair with a code | Email + password |
| System audio | Synced with the picture | Often muted or delayed |
| Apple Pencil support | Point, tap, scroll — 1:1 | Not supported |
| Hardware keyboard pass-through | Every key, all modifiers | Partial |
| Native clients | SwiftUI · Compose · WinRT | Electron / web wrapper |
| Display switching & virtual display | Built in | Paid add-on |
| Extra virtual displays on demand | Yes — any size, HiDPI | Dummy HDMI plug |
| Game controllers | Real Xbox 360 / DualShock 4 on Windows & Linux hosts | Keyboard mapping, if any |
| File transfer | Both ways, resumable | Paid tiers |
| Price | Free · Pro $1.99/month, 7-day free trial | $10–30 per month |
✦New in Remio 3.0
The biggest update Remio has ever shipped.
Extra screens on demand, a gamepad you design, files in both directions and every control one tap away — on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows and Apple TV.
Virtual displays Pro
Give your computer extra screens that exist only for Remio — any size, HiDPI, or fitted to the device in your hand. Gone when you disconnect.
How it worksGamepad builder Pro
Touch pads and real controllers for up to four players are free. Pro lets you remap every button, tune dead zones and gyro aim, and save a profile per game.
Set up controllersFiles, both ways Pro
Send a stack of files to your computer — free. With Pro, it sends them back too, on any connection. Transfers resume where they stopped and stay in your history.
File transferSplit Keyboard Pro
On iPhone the keyboard becomes part of the layout, and your computer gets the space above it — watch and type at once.
Keyboard guideBlank & lock
Black out the computer's screen while you work on it, or lock it from your phone in one tap before you walk away.
Session privacyPick the speaker Pro
Choose which output your computer plays through — or silence its speakers while you listen on the device in your hand.
Audio settingsLive numbers, plain words
Frame rate, latency and connection quality in a corner — plus a verdict like "crystal clear" that anyone understands.
Pro marks features included with Remio Pro — $1.99 a month, with a 7-day free trial. See pricing.
✦Tune
Every setting, mid-session.
Custom resolution down to the pixel and the refresh rate, pointer and scroll speed, gesture shortcuts, quality and sound — all inside the stream, applied while you watch. Remio tells you the moment your computer has taken the change.
Three fingers bring up the keyboard; four send a shortcut like ⌘F to your computer.
✦Speed
It does not feel remote. It feels instant.
About 8 ms of processing latency on a local network — the cursor moves the moment you do, your input landing before the next frame draws. Five quality presets, from Auto down to Ultra, tune frame rate and bandwidth to your link so the stream stays smooth on Wi-Fi or a wired LAN alike.
Hardware-accelerated H.265 end to end today — true 4:4:4 color for razor-sharp text is now live — NVIDIA-powered PCs streaming to Mac, more pairs on the way.
✦Input
Your phone becomes a real trackpad.
Tap, scroll, pinch and drag the way iOS already taught you. We rebuilt the true deceleration model — momentum, pause-aware lift, sub-pixel precision — not an approximation of it. Your iPad prefers a faster cursor, your iPhone a slower one, and Remio remembers each.
Point, tap, and scroll with Apple Pencil, and hardware keyboards and external trackpads all carry through 1:1.
✦Audio
Hear everything, feel the sync.
Hear your computer's audio right on your device — in sync with the screen. It plays straight through AirPods, a Bluetooth speaker, or whatever output your device is already using.
In perfect sync
System audio streams alongside the video, so sound and picture never drift apart.
Any output you use
Play through AirPods, a Bluetooth speaker, or your device's own speaker — whatever you're already connected to.
48 kHz
Encoded at full 48 kHz — not squeezed down to save bandwidth.
Same encrypted channel
Audio rides the same end-to-end encrypted connection as everything else — no separate app, no extra setup.
✦Privacy
Your data never touches our servers.
Zero servers in the data path. Video, audio, keystrokes, mouse, clipboard and files flow directly between your two devices, end-to-end encrypted the whole way. Session keys are generated fresh and destroyed on disconnect, so past sessions stay unreadable — even by us.
Privacy mode blanks the host display and mutes audio for anyone standing near your desk.
✦Workspace
More than a viewer. A remote workspace.
Launch apps by their real icons, focus on one window, read a device's live presence, and adjust quality mid-session — no reconnect.
App launcher
Open any app on the host from a grid of its real icons.
Focus mode
Stream a single app full-screen and hide everything else.
Device presence
See which computers are online, sleeping, busy or streaming.
Live adjustments
Change quality, frame rate and resolution without reconnecting.
✦Control
Control that does not quietly give up.
Most remote desktops work beautifully right up to the moment something important happens — a permission prompt, a lock screen, an elevated installer. Then the picture stays live and nothing responds. These are the moments Remio is built for.
Administrator windows & UAC
On Windows, an installer or elevated app normally swallows every click and keystroke you send, and the only fix is walking to the PC. Remio's Windows host passes input through — no Windows Authentication, no elevation request, nobody needed at the far end. How it works →
Locked screens, unlocked remotely
Reach a machine whose screen is locked — including a MacBook with the lid closed — see the real lock screen, and type your password from your phone. Each host can turn remote unlocking off, and when it is off your device says so instead of dropping keystrokes silently. More → Lid closed, no dummy plug →
Real keyboard, real shortcuts
Shortcuts from a hardware keyboard arrive as true key combinations, so ⌘C, ⌘Z and app-specific chords behave exactly as they should. On iPad, Option+Tab switches apps — a stand-in for the Cmd+Tab that iPadOS reserves for itself. Typing works in Vietnamese, CJK and emoji.
Trackpad, Pencil and gamepad
A two-finger tap on the Magic Keyboard trackpad opens the right-click menu like a real mouse. Apple Pencil points, taps and scrolls. A three-finger swipe moves between Spaces and opens Mission Control. Game controllers map straight into your games.
✦Hosts
Every host. No asterisks we hide.
macOS, Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD can all be the computer you reach — with an Android host in beta. Where something is narrower in scope than it sounds, we say so on the page rather than in a footnote.
Linux, including Wayland
Wayland is the default session on current Ubuntu and Fedora, and it blocks the screen capture that classic tools like x11vnc rely on — which is why they return a black screen. Remio streams it through your desktop's own secure sharing service: grant once, and it remembers. More →
True 4:4:4 color
Video compression normally stores color at a quarter of the detail of brightness, which smears colored text. On an NVIDIA-powered Windows host streaming to a Mac client you can switch on full 4:4:4 color and get pixel-exact edges. Experimental and opt-in; other pairs stream standard 4:2:0. Read the scope →
Multi-display and privacy
Pick which of the host's monitors to stream, or add virtual displays that exist only for Remio. Blank the computer's screen from the device in your hand so nobody at the desk can read it — and lock it with one tap when you are done.
Windows Home included
Windows 10 Home and 11 Home cannot host the built-in RDP server at all. Remio's Windows host runs on them the same as on Pro, and on older Windows 10 machines and remote-desktop server setups where streaming previously never started.
✦Native
Built for your device, not against it.
Every client is a native app — SwiftUI on Apple, Jetpack Compose on Android, C++/WinRT on Windows. No Electron, no web wrapper, no GPU lock-in, and a forward-compatible protocol so versions can mix.
macOS · host & client
Windows · host & client
iPhone & iPad · client
Android · client & host
Apple TV · client
Vision Pro · client
Linux · host
Raspberry Pi & FreeBSD · host
✦Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is Remio's latency?
About 8 ms of processing latency on a same-LAN peer-to-peer link — your input lands before the next frame draws, the rest is your display's own 60 Hz refresh cadence (measured internally). Over the public internet, expect low double-digit milliseconds within the same region, more across longer distances. By comparison, traditional remote desktops add 30 to 80 ms even on a LAN because traffic detours through their servers.
How does Remio encrypt my data?
End-to-end encrypted — your screen never touches our servers, and even the relay only sees ciphertext. Keys are generated per session and destroyed on disconnect — past sessions stay unreadable even by us. Pairing keys live in the device's Secure Enclave on Apple platforms or Keystore on Android, never plaintext, never in our cloud.
Do I need an account to use Remio?
No. Pair two devices with a QR code or PIN — no email, no password, no personal data stored anywhere. You are a device, not a profile. Remio has no central account database to leak.
Does Remio work over the internet, not just LAN?
Yes. Remio always attempts a direct peer-to-peer connection first. When NAT or firewall blocks P2P (rare on most home networks), traffic falls back to an encrypted TURN relay — but the payload is still end-to-end encrypted, so the relay sees only ciphertext.
Which platforms does Remio support natively?
Hosts: macOS, Windows (including Home), Linux on X11 and Wayland, Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD, plus an Android host in beta. Clients: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks, Windows, Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro. Every app is native — SwiftUI on Apple, Jetpack Compose on Android, C++ on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
What is included in Remio Pro?
Extra virtual displays, a controller you remap with a profile for every game, files your computer sends back to you, file transfer on any connection (even relayed), choosing which speaker your computer plays through and Split Keyboard on phones — for $1.99 a month, with a 7-day free trial. USB devices plugged into your Mac work on the Mac you control. Seeing all your screens at once, mouse-look for games and USB from Android come to subscribers at no extra cost as they ship. See pricing.
Can I use Remio with Apple Pencil and an external keyboard?
Yes. Point, tap, and scroll with Apple Pencil on the host — handy for navigating Photoshop or Illustrator workflows from an iPad. Hardware keyboards forward every key including the F-row, Cmd, Option, and platform-specific modifiers. External trackpads pass through with full gesture support.
Ready to feel the difference?
Your computer from anywhere — free to use, no account, no strings attached. Go Pro whenever you want more.