Open Source UltraVNC Alternatives

The best open source alternative to UltraVNC is RustDesk. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to UltraVNC and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to UltraVNC are Remmina, TightVNC, Bananas Screen Sharing and TigerVNC.

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  1. screego icon
     12 likes

    For developers, screen sharing shouldn’t be optimized for low bandwidth or presenting some slides. It should be high definition, that you still can read the tiny font of your colleague. No more, “wait a minute, the stream isn’t updating”.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Docker
     
  2. Xrdp icon
     18 likes

    xrdp provides a graphical login to remote machines using Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). xrdp accepts connections from a variety of RDP clients:

    95 Xrdp alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Dayon! icon
     10 likes

    A user-friendly, open-source, cross-platform solution, that allows controlling of remote computers. It can be used as an alternative to various commercial remote desktop and assistance products.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
     
  4. TurboVNC icon
     2 likes

    TurboVNC is a derivative of VNC (Virtual Network Computing) that is tuned to provide peak performance for 3D and video workloads.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 1Remote icon
     5 likes

    1Remote (previously PRemoteM) is a modern personal remote session manager and launcher. It is a single place to manage all your remote sessions supporting a number of different protocols.

    20 1Remote alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. noVNC icon
     3 likes

    noVNC - VNC client using HTML5 (Web Sockets, Canvas) with encryption (wss://) support.

    8 noVNC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. rdesktop icon
     24 likes

    rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the users Windows desktop. Supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows...

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    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Chicken icon
     14 likes

    Chicken is a VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows remote access to another computer over the network. Chicken is based on Chicken of the VNC.

    51 Chicken alternatives

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. OpenRPort icon
     Like

    This a repo in an effort to continue an opensource version of original cloudradar-monitoring rport. We are working to bring back all the component to opensource. Some documentation might be inconsistent but will still be usable.

    29 OpenRPort alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Krfb icon
     1 like

    Krfb (server) is one of a pair of KDE programs - Krdc (client) is the other - that let you share your desktop (make it visible remotely) through the local network with another user, probably somebody like the tech downstairs who you wants to help you figure out how to do...

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
     
  11.  1 like

    A Wayland Native VNC Client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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