One app for your Windows and Linux PCs

Your Windows and Linux PCs share one Devices list, in the RemoteAccessApp Console on Windows or Linux and on your dashboard in the browser. Each shows what it runs, and the operating system filter narrows the list to just your Linux PCs, or just Windows 11, when that's what you need. A Linux PC opens with the same click as a Windows one. If you missed the launch, RemoteAccessApp is now on Linux lists everything the Linux version does.

• Consent. Unless unattended access is on, every PC asks Allow remote access? first, and shows a banner with an End button for the whole session.
• Awake while you're there. The PC won't blank, lock or sleep during a session, and goes back to normal when it ends. If it's already locked, type its password to unlock it.
• Unattended access, switched on at the PC itself, for consoles it trusts.
• One-time help codes for helping someone who isn't in your account, with Get help on either system.
• Commands without a session. Run a command… on the Devices page works on both, with the person at the PC shown the exact command first.
• The tools page. Processes, services, sessions and logs, from Windows services and the Event Log or from systemd and the journal.
• Plans. The free plan's 5 PCs count Windows and Linux together. Files and clipboard (free) and Pro's sound and every monitor work on both.

• The shell is bash. Windows PCs offer Command Prompt and PowerShell; Linux PCs give you a bash terminal as the signed-in user.
• Wayland asks once. X11 and Wayland desktops both work. On Wayland, the desktop shows its own Remote Desktop dialog the first time: turn on Allow Remote Interaction, keep Remember This Selection ticked and click Share. After that it's remembered. See X11 and Wayland explained.
• No Management jobs yet. Scheduled scripts, restarts and updates across many PCs are for Windows PCs; Linux PCs say Not available on Linux yet there.
• Always through your account. Direct connections on the local network are Windows-only for now.

Monday: the family laptop

The old laptop runs Linux Mint now, and a parent can't find where the downloads went. They open RemoteAccessApp, read you the 8-digit code under This PC's code, and click Allow. You show them, they press End, and that code is gone for good. How help codes work on Linux.

Wednesday: the workstation

Your Ubuntu workstation at the office has unattended access on and trusts your home PC. From home you open it in the Console, check a long-running job in the terminal panel, and close the session. Unattended access on Linux.

Friday: the quick check

Is there space on the Linux box in the spare room? Right-click it, Run a command…, df -h. Nobody's screen is shared, and the answer is back in seconds. Commands without a session.

RemoteAccessApp for Linux includes the Agent (so this PC can be reached) and the Console (to reach your other PCs). The Console on Windows has end-to-end encryption, tabs, the live grid, the terminal and the tools. The Console for Linux has nearly all of it too: end-to-end encrypted sessions, the Devices list, files, chat, the terminal and the tools, your saved SSH, SFTP, VNC and Remote Desktop hosts, teams, the management views and Help someone. There's no Mac app: from a Mac, or anywhere else, including a phone, the website opens the same PCs in the browser.

To add your first Linux PC, start with installing RemoteAccessApp on Linux, or read controlling a Linux PC from Windows. The overview of free remote desktop for Linux PCs sums up what works, on X11 and Wayland, and what the free plan covers.