Some of the positive things I can say about TeamViewer is that the visuals are slightly sharper than on AnyDesk, TeamViewer also currently offers far more additional features than AnyDesk in it beta state. Just installed AnyDesk on two terminals that I already have TeamViewer installed on, I established a connection to the other terminal using both clients and then I stacked one Window on top of the other… wow, AnyDesk is definitely smoother in terms of frame-rate, it has no screen tearing or jitter there is absolutely no contest when it comes to multimedia, the quality on AnyDesk wins hands down, I even tried to see if I would receive a feed while playing a few video-games, lo and behold, where as AnyDesk presents the visuals of all the games I tested, TeamViewer showed only a few, the rest of the games tested only came up as a blank screen, I also tested how quick the two clients would present text when typing up a document, I used TeamViewer first to type in some random characters as fast as I could, to no surprise, the text appeared on the AnyDesk window faster than it did on TeamViewer itself (again, the client I was using to type with).
If you are running Windows and use remote desktop software occasionally or all the time, you may want to take AnyDesk for a test drive especially in corporate environments and situations where bandwidth or latency is an issue as it may provide improvements in those scenarios. The company is working on Linux and Mac ports, and an iOS client. The only downside right now is that AnyDesk is only available for Windows.
It bumps the simultaneous connections up to three, supports commercial use the creation of Anydesk-Aliases which are easier to remember than numbers when it comes to remote connections.
The first commercial version, AnyDesk Lite, is available for €60 yearly or a one-time payment of €290. It is good for one simultaneous connection, and supports the transmission of audio and video but lacks other features that only the commercial programs support.
There is AnyDesk Free, a limited version that is free for non-commercial use. While too early to come to a conclusion as independent benchmarks need to be run for confirmation, it is fair to say that AnyDesk could give TeamViewer a run for its money.ĪnyDesk will be offered in four different versions. Both the image quality and responsiveness was excellent. Here you see who is requesting the connection, and can modify several permissions such as use of the clipboard, before you hit the accept or dismiss button.Ī quick test showed great promise. Here you can also enable and disable visual helpers such as showing a remote cursor or transmitting hotkeys, and whether hardware acceleration should be used.Ĭonnection requests are displayed on screen by default. You can either switch that to lowest reaction time or to best audio and video quality instead. The program compromises between display and audio quality and reaction time which you can modify in the settings as well. It is for instance possible to block access to the clipboard or block mouse and keyboard use.
You can add a password for unattended access to the system and define permissions here for remote users. Here you also have the option to enter an address of another user to connect to that user's system remotely.Īs far as settings go, there are a view of interest.
The AnyDesk address is displayed on start which others can use to connect to the desk. The interface looks browser-like with the tab-like bar at the top and the Hamburger menu on the right.
You can download the full benchmark report here.Īll you need to do is download AnyDesk from the developer website and run it afterwards.