v1.0.0 · 100% Rust · AGPL-3.0

Remote desktop with end-to-end encryption by design

Unattended access by numeric ID, screen sharing, remote control, file transfer, TCP tunneling, audio and chat — no sign-up, no cloud accounts.

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ID980 114 3351
FingerprintS3DW-JJFB-6MF3-EZA2
Serverabbydesk.com:21116
25 000+lines of Rust
341automated tests
QUIC · TLS 1.3mutual Ed25519 certs
P2P + relayNAT traversal built in

Everything you need, nothing you don't

A complete remote access suite in a single binary. No sign-up, no cloud account, no vendor lock-in.

Unattended access by ID

Every device gets a 10-digit ID derived from its own Ed25519 key — an ID that cannot be spoofed or reassigned. Set an unattended password and connect any time.

Fast screen sharing

VP9 encoding tuned for screen content, damage-region capture, live bitrate/FPS reconfiguration without dropping the session. Multi-monitor support included.

Full remote control

Mouse, keyboard, Unicode text, Ctrl+Alt+Del, privacy screen, remote input blocking and resolution change — with per-peer permission grants.

File transfer

Dual-pane browser with resumable 256 KiB chunks, recursive delete, rename, mkdir, live progress and transfer rate.

TCP tunneling

Forward a local port to any host reachable from the peer — up to 64 concurrent tunnels. RDP, SSH, databases, anything TCP.

Audio, chat & clipboard

Opus 48 kHz audio (system or microphone), in-session chat with unread counters, and two-way text/image clipboard sync with echo suppression.

Session recording

Every session can be captured into an ABBYREC1 container: video, audio, chat and input tracks, with retention pruning built in. Included with any license.

NAT traversal

LAN discovery, direct IP, simultaneous P2P dial with hole punching, and relay fallback over independent QUIC streams — tried in that order.

Wake on LAN

Power on remote machines with a magic packet — from the CLI or straight from the address book in the UI.

Security is the protocol, not a feature

Your ID is your public key. Every connection is mutually authenticated and encrypted end to end.

Identity = Ed25519 keyThe 10-digit ID is derived from the device key; the dialing side refuses any certificate that does not hash to the ID it called.
QUIC + TLS 1.3 mTLSMutual self-signed Ed25519 certificates on every connection; X25519 + ChaCha20-Poly1305 with HKDF per-direction keys at the application layer.
Unattended passwords done rightPBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256, 210 000 iterations, per-password random salt. Plaintext never touches disk; config files are written 0600.
Granular access controlDeny-all switch, per-peer whitelist/blacklist, «allowed peers only» mode, session caps and per-permission grants at the accept dialog.

Download abbydesk

Free for everyone. Preconfigured for the public abbydesk.com rendezvous — enter an ID and connect.

Windows

x86_64 · .exe · ~12 MB Download

Linux

x86_64 · X11 · ~16 MB Download

Android

arm64 · API 26+ · ~5 MB Download

Windows & Android builds: set rendezvous server once — Settings → Connection → abbydesk.com:21116

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Licenses

The core remote desktop is free and open source — forever. A license key unlocks session recording, covers more devices and supports development.

Free

$0
  • Unlimited remote desktop sessions
  • End-to-end encryption
  • File transfer, chat, tunneling
  • Unattended access
  • Session recording
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Solo

$12/mo
  • Everything in Free
  • 1 device per key
  • Session recording (ABBYREC1)
  • 365 days per activation
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Standard

$24/mo
  • Everything in Solo
  • Up to 10 devices per key
  • Session recording (ABBYREC1)
  • Priority e-mail support
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Advanced

$60/mo
  • Everything in Standard
  • Unlimited devices per key
  • Perpetual option available
  • Priority e-mail support
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How activation works

  1. You receive a key like ABBY-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX after purchase.
  2. Open Settings → License in the app, paste the key and press Activate.
  3. The key is verified by the rendezvous server and bound to this device; the signed license is cached and re-validated offline on every start.

Quick start

Connect in seconds: install, note your ID, enter the peer's ID.

Connect to a machine

# GUI — enter the peer's 10-digit ID
./abbydesk

# or straight from the shell
./abbydesk --connect "980 114 3351" --password hunter2
./abbydesk --connect 192.168.1.20:21116

Unattended access (headless host)

./abbydesk --headless
./abbydesk password        # set the unattended password
./abbydesk id              # print this device's ID