CLUSTER DESKTOP-REMOTE-CLIENT · 25 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-11-10
Remote desktop client apps
This cluster consists of remote desktop client applications that connect to and control distant computers or virtual desktops over protocols like RDP, VNC, SPICE, SSH, and X2Go. Their recorded creation dates are sparse between2015 and2022 (single entries in 2015,2019,2021,and2022), then become more frequent from2024-08 through2026-07, with months like2026-03,2026-06,and2026-07 each having two products. On traction, freeremotedesk leads with32 stars, whileRemoteUSB has1 starandshare.zeelinks.com.pkhas0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled
Operator · 5 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21TigerVNC Viewer0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceClient application that connects to VNC servers and displays a remote desktop on the local machine.
- 22x2goserver0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceRemote desktop server that lets users access graphical and terminal sessions on a remote machine over a network.
- 23Remmina0★unknownliveopen sourceRemote desktop client that connects to other computers using multiple network protocols including RDP, VNC, SSH, and X2Go.
- 24krdc0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that connects to and controls remote desktop sessions over RDP and VNC protocols for remote system access.
- 25Remote Viewer0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application for viewing virtual machine displays via VNC or SPICE protocols, supporting local and remote connections.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.