🖥 RemoteForge

A remote desktop client that stays on your own computer — connect directly to another machine on your network or VPN and control it in the app, or launch your system's own Remote Desktop with the address already filled in. No RemoteForge server sits in the middle of your connection, ever.

$29 one-time price. No subscription. Yours forever.

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What's included: the full RemoteForge app for Windows · one license covers 3 computers (free a slot anytime from inside the app with its "Deactivate this computer" button, or from your CertSight account page by regenerating your key) · your license key is emailed at checkout and can also be shown on screen right after payment.

What it does

• Real VNC, inside the app. Connect to any machine running a VNC server (port 5900 by default) and the remote screen renders on a canvas in the app. The mouse is full control: movement, left/middle/right click, dragging — press, move, release — and the scroll wheel, vertical and horizontal. The keyboard is full control too: printable characters at the correct shift level (Shift+1 sends !, not 1), F1–F12, Insert/Delete/Home/End/PageUp/PageDown, the arrow keys, and modifier shortcuts — Ctrl, Alt, Shift, and Meta are tracked and sent around the keys they modify, so Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and Alt+Tab work. A Send Ctrl+Alt+Del button sends that exact sequence, and if the window loses focus mid-shortcut, held keys are released so nothing sticks on the remote side.
• RDP is a launcher — honestly. RemoteForge does NOT render RDP inside the app. It writes an .rdp file that prefills the address — and your username, if you gave one — and opens it in your system's own Remote Desktop client. You sign in there. What you get for RDP is a saved-address book plus a one-click prefilled launch — nothing more is claimed.
• A warning before the first connection to a new host. The first time you connect to a host, the app stops and asks you to confirm: "make sure you trust it before continuing." Hosts you have confirmed are remembered locally; a new host always asks first.
• An address book, kept locally. Saved connections store the protocol, host, port, and username only. If you ask the app to remember a VNC password, it is encrypted with your operating system's keyring — and if no keyring is available, the app refuses to remember it rather than write it in plain text.
• Deactivate from inside the app. A "Deactivate this computer" button frees that computer's activation slot when you replace a machine — no support ticket, no waiting.
• Nothing phones home. The app makes exactly two kinds of connection: the direct connection to the host you typed, and the activation / deactivation checks to CertSight. There is no telemetry and no usage reporting.

⚠️ Scope notes — read before you buy

• No live remote session has been verified yet. The input translation — pointer movement, drag, wheel events, keysyms, and modifier handling — is covered by unit tests, and the connection code follows the VNC library's documented API, but a full session against a real remote machine has not yet been run end to end by us. That check is still owed, and we'd rather say so here than let you discover it.
• RemoteForge never handles or stores an RDP password. The .rdp file contains the address and username only — a usable .rdp password field would need a Windows-encrypted blob, so there isn't one. For RDP connections the password and Remember options in the app are disabled, sign-in happens in your system's client, and Disconnect cannot close an RDP session (close it in the system client).
• Direct connections only — no relay, no NAT traversal. RemoteForge opens a direct TCP connection from your computer to the host and port you type — over your LAN, or over a VPN you set up yourself. A machine behind NAT, with no port forwarding and no VPN, cannot be reached through RemoteForge. There is no unattended-access agent: the other machine must already be running a VNC server (or accept RDP) and be reachable.
• One session at a time. You can be connected to one machine at a time; disconnect before connecting somewhere else.
• No clipboard sync and no file transfer. Text and files do not move between the two machines through RemoteForge — you control the remote screen, nothing more.
• No fit-to-window scaling. The remote screen is shown at its native resolution on a scrolling page — there is no scaling it down to fit your window and no fullscreen mode.
• Windows only for now. The download below is a Windows portable build. There is no macOS or Linux build yet — we'd rather say that plainly than promise one. Your license will work on those builds if and when they're published.
• Human GUI click-through is still pending. Checkout, licensing, and activation are covered end to end by automated tests, but the app's hands-on flows have not yet had a full human play-through on a real Windows machine — the in-app experience is v1.1 and we will say so plainly until that pass is done.

If any of the above is a deal-breaker for you, v1.1 isn't for you yet — and we'd rather tell you now than after checkout.

Download

Windows 10/11 (64-bit), portable build — no installer, just download and run.

macOS and Linux are not available yet. There is no build for them today; if one is published later, this same license key will activate it.

The app is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may show a warning on first launch — this is normal for a new publisher. Choose "More info → Run anyway" to start it.

How activation works: at checkout your license key is emailed to you (and can be shown on screen right after payment). Enter it on the app's activation screen — one license activates on up to 3 computers, with 30-day offline trust after activation. Replacing a computer? Use "Deactivate this computer" inside the app to free its slot, or generate a fresh key from your account page (the old key stops working).