A PIN the server never sees
Your password gets you the machine list. A separate PIN, set on the host and never written to its disk, is what actually unlocks a session. Someone who learns your password still cannot connect.
Your machines, wherever you are.
Remote desktop that connects to computers you own. On the same network they find each other directly and need no internet at all. Everywhere else they meet through this server — which relays the handshake without ever being able to read it.
Works with the internet down
On one network, machines discover each other over mDNS — the same mechanism a network printer uses. No server, no router configuration, no IP addresses typed by hand.
Host it yourself
This site is one instance. The whole thing is open and self-contained — run it on a VPS, a NAS, or a spare machine, and your data never touches anyone else’s server.
How a connection actually works
Four steps, and the third is the one that matters.
- Both machines sign in here, so each knows what the other is called.
- They try the local network first. If that works, nothing leaves your building.
- The viewer asks you for the host’s PIN and turns it into an encryption key. The handshake is sealed with it before this server ever sees it, so the relay moves ciphertext it cannot read, cannot forge, and cannot redirect.
- The screen stream itself is peer-to-peer, encrypted end to end.