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TurboVNC vs MultiVNC: catalog facts
TurboVNC	MultiVNC
Free Free and open source under the GPL. The project relies on sponsorship and funded…	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Tight encoding variant tuned for image-heavy applications, where ordinary VNC crawls With VirtualGL it displays 3D applications remotely at interactive speed	Built-in SSH tunneling Desktop and Android clients
VNC has no built-in encryption by default; you tunnel it over SSH or configure TLS Setting up VirtualGL alongside it is genuinely involved	Viewer only; needs a VNC server on the remote machine VNC only, no RDP support
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: GPL-3.0-only
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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