RustDesk
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Provides secure, cross-platform remote access and file sharing with no registration needed. Offers end-to-end encryption, self-hosting, multi-monitor support, screen sharing, and portable use, all with a lightweight, ad-free interface.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- Flatpak
- OpenAPK
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I use this app for over years. Together with a self-hosted relay to do a secondary autentication to authorize devices with an required encryption key.
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some privacy services. mostly taken from https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy, but I also take other suggestions.
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Clean, small, use!
For activation use: https://massgrave.dev/ or https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
For all windows USE OFFICIAL MS SITE if u can / for reserv use this: https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media
For office download use: https://gravesoft.dev/office_c2r_links
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Install from the command line
brew install --cask rustdeskflatpak install flathub com.rustdesk.RustDesk
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Purslane Ltd. Licensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $10 and $170 per month + free version with limited functionality.Written in
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Comments and Reviews
Free and Opensource !
No it's not completely open source anymore. The server component is closed source and pay2use. But what's more important is that the author is not only anonymous, but also refuses to talk about security concerns regarding the paid server component.
His/her behaviour was openly rude on GitHub and seemingly also on Teamspeak.
When talking to other people involved it was rather obvious that the author doesn't want to speak about certain questions.
Since there's only an anonymous author and no real people or company involved in this - the security risks for the software is much too big to use it productively.
The software/server component would be able to control everything within the remote networks including direct port forwarding to any outside services. Seeing that Rustdesk is an unprofessional and anonymous one man show with a rather strange behaviour to user requests I would definetely advise against using it for now.
That's false, on 2 counts:
it was never more open-sourced than it is now, the fully-featured server is not open-source, but there is a minimal server that is open-sourced, so yes you can self-host and run the whole thing on your own if you are worried about security, you won't have all the features or security of the fully-featured server but you won't depend on their servers.
the guy didn't delete the messages, he doesn't speak english well (seems to be a chinese dev). You can crawl the github issues to see the past questions. People asked the dev to open-source the server, but the dev doesn't want to since this is the only source of income to fund future development and maintenance of the software. But he released an open-source minimal server for anyone to use or fork and further develop. Lots of well respected open-source softwares have free "community editions" versus paid pro versions (but closed source). This business model is nothing shady, the guy could have kept everything closed source, he's the dev, he can do whatever he wants.
I would love to see the fully-featured server being open-sourced too, but you can't accuse the dev of being shady just because they don't want to. There is a minimal server, please feel free to develop it further to reproduce all features and release it for free for everyone's benefit.
Where can I download the minimum version of the server?
It's not minimal. It's demo that support only one relay connection and without NAT and encryption. So it's not usable. Just as demo within closed LAN.
For reference, the mentioned demo server can be found here: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server-demo
Maybe things have changed since your comment. I just discovered the software and it's fully open source, both the client and the server.
Adding to above, server software here: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/releases
This negative rating is no longer valid. Can that be reflected somehow?
I use this app for over years. Together with a self-hosted relay to do a secondary autentication to authorize devices with an required encryption key.
Need account like Teamviewer, it's very very useless
What some called the open-source version of AnyDesk turned out not to work because—apparently due to scam-related issues—it required me to configure some rather complicated storage options. Perhaps it was once a genuine alternative to AnyDesk, but at the time of writing, it simply doesn't work without that complicated server setup.
Very uncomplicated setup and connection. The only problem is that after remote connection, RustDesk takes control over my PC too. If I want to do something on my PC, I have to disconnect from the remote PC and then reconnect again. Maybe there are setting to fix it, but they are not obvious in settings.
Works exactly as intended. I use to it to assist a client from a macOS machine to a Windows 11 machine. Great application.