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Apache Guacamole

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Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Linux
  • Self-Hosted
  • Cloudron
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Two-factor Authentication
  3.  Clientless Remote Connection
  4.  Browser-based
  5.  User Management
  6.  Dockerized
  7.  Web-Based
  8.  Role-based security access
  9.  RDP
  10.  VNC Viewer
  11.  VNC Support

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Apache Guacamole information

  • Developed by

    US flagApache Software Foundation
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    68 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  3,393 Stars
  •  685 Forks
  •  45 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 16, 2025 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Apache Guacamole, and it has gotten 43 likes

Apache Guacamole was added to AlternativeTo by tabakis on Mar 6, 2011 and this page was last updated Mar 12, 2025. Apache Guacamole is sometimes referred to as Guacamole.

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Top Positive Comment
franoisdelpierre
Oct 22, 2018
5

I don't know (yet), but what I can tell is that AlternativeTo is completely wrong. None of the alternative options is build to enable fast access to a desktop in clientless/HTML5 mode.

An alternate option could be parallels.

roemer
Jun 14, 2019
1

It is a browser based solution supporting all important protocols (VNC, RDP, SSH). Works flawlessly completely inside Docker.

[Edited by roemer, June 14]

OAKSIF0
Jan 14, 2018
2

You can connect to your machine via a web browser witch makes it portable, for anyone who wants to connect to that machine, but its difficult to setup on the host machine.

pataners
Mar 21, 2017
1

clientless, HTML5 based, blazingly fast and open source!

MysticRyuujin
Oct 23, 2014
1

Unfortunately I don't think any of these are alternatives to Guacamole. The whole point of Guacamole is client-less HTML5 based remote access. I think all of these alternatives require the download, and installation/execution of software as well as firewall configuration allowing outbound connections over their ports.

ruvenss
Oct 12, 2015

Yes I think so. I do agree, I am still trying to find something but that works out of the box.

moritzfl
Dec 12, 2016

guacamole pretty much does run out of the box without much config (if any). I personally use mattgruters guacamole-docker-containers and it works flawlessly - up and running in <5min. Just be sure to get all 3 containers and then follow the instructions. https://hub.docker.com/r/mattgruter/guacamole-webserver/

Ruvenss G Wilches
Dec 12, 2016

Moritzafl still in incubating phase a an Apache project http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/ so besides not being in a production, which I will expect to be able to deploy in most distros and have some kind of good web gui to admin and setup i will expect more documentation and tutorials; Don't get me wrong I think is a great initiative and I see a lot of potential in the general industry, but still not working out of box, even using Docker.

What is Apache Guacamole?

Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required.

Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser

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