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MultiVNCTurboVNC
Free

Free and open source under the GPL-3.0.

 Free

Free and open source under the GPL. The project relies on sponsorship and funded…

Windows, macOS, Linux, Android Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Built-in SSH tunneling
  • Desktop and Android clients
  • Tight encoding variant tuned for image-heavy applications, where ordinary VNC crawls
  • With VirtualGL it displays 3D applications remotely at interactive speed
  • Viewer only; needs a VNC server on the remote machine
  • VNC only, no RDP support
  • VNC has no built-in encryption by default; you tunnel it over SSH or configure TLS
  • Setting up VirtualGL alongside it is genuinely involved
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: GPL-3.0-only License: GPL-2.0
No account needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked October 1, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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