Apollo
A Sunshine fork for self-hosted game and desktop streaming at the client device's native resolution.
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Package managers
- Chocolatey
choco install apollo
About Apollo
Apollo is a fork of the Sunshine game streaming host. It streams a desktop or games from your own computer to a client device, and focuses on matching the client's native resolution by creating a virtual display rather than scaling the host's monitor.
It suits people who stream from a gaming PC to a tablet, phone, laptop or TV and want the picture to fit the client screen exactly. The project is actively developed on GitHub, with a large number of commits and users.
Strengths
- Streams at the client device's native resolution
- Virtual display support
- Self-hosted with no vendor account
- Builds on the established Sunshine host
Limitations
- Needs a compatible client app to connect
- Mainly a single-developer fork
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source with no paid tier.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- ClassicOldSong
- Platforms
- Windows
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Streaming games or a desktop from your own PC to tablets and other screens
- Categories
- Remote desktop, Gaming tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Apollo
Compare allSoftware that can replace Apollo for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Sunshine
The open source host that replaced NVIDIA GameStream, so Moonlight can stream from any PC.
Sunshine is the upstream host Apollo builds on, with Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD support and a web interface, but without Apollo's native-resolution and virtual display features.
Parsec
A low-latency remote desktop app for reaching a work or gaming computer from another device.
Parsec is a proprietary freemium app for Windows and macOS with its own client and 4K 60 fps streaming, instead of a self-hosted host without a vendor account.
Apollo as an alternative
Listings that name Apollo as an alternative.
GeForce NOW
NVIDIA's cloud gaming service that streams your existing game library to weaker hardware.
Apollo is a free GPL-3.0 self-hosted streaming host for Windows that streams your own PC at native client resolution, requiring your own hardware and a client app.
Shadow
A subscription cloud PC service that streams a full Windows computer to your own devices.
Apollo is a free GPL-3.0 Sunshine fork for streaming from your own Windows PC at the client's native resolution, needing a compatible client.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Moonlight
Streams games from a gaming PC to another device on your network, with hardware decoding and a gamepad.
chiaki-ng
An open-source PlayStation Remote Play client for PC, Linux and Steam Deck.
Looking Glass
A low-latency viewer that shows a GPU-passthrough Windows virtual machine inside a Linux window.
Deskreen
Turns any device with a web browser into a second screen for your computer, over the local network.
