OwnDesk

Private remote control for your own Macs, from another Mac, Android or iPhone. No account, no cloud, no open ports; end-to-end signed WebRTC, plus an SSH terminal. (by im-fahad)
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im-fahad/OwnDesk is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of OwnDesk is Swift.

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