Personal
The desktop at home while you're not. The laptop you left at the office. Your parents' computer, when they ring on a Sunday and the printer has stopped again. One account, a short list of machines, and a connection that nobody else can start.
Free to self-host, for ever · no licence key · no seat count · no licence server to call
Installing the software on a machine does not make that machine reachable. That's the whole idea.
On the computer you'll be connecting to. It comes up with its own ID and a one-time password, and reports in as pending — present, but not yet reachable by anyone, including you.
Your console lists your devices a line each, with a state you control. Approve it and it's yours. Revoke it later and it stops answering — the refusal happens at the server, so it doesn't depend on that machine co-operating.
Type the ID. If both ends can see each other, the session goes straight across between the two machines. If they can't — hotel Wi-Fi, mobile data, a strict office firewall — a relay carries it instead.
Either we hold the account and you hold the approvals, or you hold all of it and we never see a thing.
Hosted by us
We run the server so you don't have to think about certificates or updates. What we run is a switchboard, not a window.
Self-hosted
Run the whole thing yourself, on a spare machine at home or the cheapest VPS you can find. This is the same software we host — not a crippled community edition.
The things you'd actually use on your own machines, without a Pro tier standing in front of them.
The machines you use often, saved with names that mean something to you, instead of retyping nine digits.
Move a file between the two machines during a session, without posting it through a third service to get it there.
When both ends can reach each other, the session goes straight across. The relay is a fallback for when they can't, not the default path.
A fresh password per session on the machine being reached — useful when you're the one talking somebody else through it on the phone.
Every device has a state you set: pending, approved, revoked. Revoking is enforced at the server, not requested politely from the device.
TOTP on your console account with any authenticator app. A correct code never substitutes for the password — it's asked for in addition.
Personal stops at five. If you're still the only person using it but you look after far more machines than that — a lab, a workshop, a family's worth of computers, a side business — the step up is Solo: the same single account with no device limit, plus deploy tokens, strategies and the audit log, for $7 a month. It is deliberately self-serve, with no support. See all four plans
Better you find out here than after an hour of trying.
You can connect from one to a computer, but iOS does not let an app hand its screen to a third party in the background. That's an Apple platform rule, not something we can engineer around, and anyone telling you otherwise is describing a different arrangement than the one you think you're buying.
Windows SmartScreen will warn about them and macOS Gatekeeper will block them outright until the certificates are bought and the builds are signed. Until then we hand builds over ourselves and walk you through the first install — which is why this page has a form on it and not a download button.
Tell us which machines you're trying to reach and we'll get you a build that works, plus a straight answer about whether this is the right tool for it.
No form backend yet — sending opens your mail app with the details filled in.
Prefer to write it yourself? hello@tzxdesk.com