RDP client for iPhone and Android

RemotePane is a remote desktop (RDP) client for iPhone and Android. It connects your phone straight to a Windows PC, a Linux desktop running xrdp or KRDP, or a Mac running RemotePane Host — with no relay server and no account. It's also a VNC viewer, so one app covers the machines that don't speak RDP.

What you get over RDP

• An encrypted session. RDP encrypts the connection between your phone and your computer.
• A smooth, full-resolution desktop. Hardware-accelerated H.264 video, with pinch-to-zoom into any corner.
• Touch that maps through. Tap to click, long-press to right-click, drag to scroll.
• Copy and paste both ways. Copy on your phone and paste on your PC, or the other way round. Your phone's clipboard is only handed over when you paste on the PC — never sent on its own.
• The keys your phone keyboard lacks. A bar above the keyboard with Ctrl, Esc, Tab and the arrow keys.
• Saved connections. Give each machine a name like "Office PC"; its password stays in your phone's secure storage.

Connect to a Windows PC

Windows Pro and Enterprise include a Remote Desktop host. Windows Home doesn't — on a Home edition, run a standard VNC server and use RemotePane's VNC mode instead.

1. On the PC, open Settings → System → Remote Desktop and turn Remote Desktop on.
2. Note the PC's IP address, or its Tailscale address if you use Tailscale.
3. In RemotePane, leave the switch on RDP, enter the address, and sign in with your Windows account's username and password.

Connect to a Linux desktop

RemotePane works with the two common Linux RDP servers:

• xrdp, available from most distributions' package managers.
• KRDP, the Remote Desktop server built into KDE Plasma.

Keystrokes land once and in order on both, smart punctuation like curly quotes and long dashes included.

Connect to a Mac

Macs don't include an RDP host, so we made one: RemotePane Host is a Mac menu bar app that shares your Mac's screen over encrypted RDP, with nothing to configure beyond the macOS permissions it asks for. If you'd rather not install anything, you can also reach a Mac through its built-in Screen Sharing over VNC.

Connect from outside your home

RemotePane connects directly — there's no relay server in the middle. To reach your computer from anywhere, install Tailscale on your phone and the computer, then connect to the computer's Tailscale address. There's no port to forward and nothing exposed to the internet. Connecting by IP address also works on cellular networks.

When a connection fails

RemotePane tells you the real reason in plain language — an address it couldn't reach, a sign-in that didn't work, a secure connection that couldn't be set up, or a connection that dropped — so you know where to look.