Better Than Most – Remotix VNC, RDP & NEAR Review

Thus far this is the best app when the iPad Pro has a hardware keyboard but, really, the on-screen-keyboard keyboard needs updating. Remotix feels unusable when using the oversized old-on-screen-keyboard. So for now I find Remoter Pro is better for the iPad Pro when using a lighter (read: no hardware keyboard) case. Sadly for Remoter Pro it is not half as responsive as Remotix. So here are two simple requests: 1. Please provide the more svelte keyboard that other apps for iPad Pro have adopted. 2. Please provide solitary dedicated F bar, i.e. F1, F2, .. F12, as an option for when that iPad Pro *is* connected to a hardware keyboard (no edge-powered keyboards have F keys yet :( ) _____________________ PREVIOUS REVIEW: Good VNC + RDP app. I just need this for use from the couch, supper table, etc. -- only so I don't have to always sit at my desk at home. VNC: All these remote apps have bugs and this one is no exception. If your desktop has two monitors with different resolutions then you will be fighting a Remotix-cursor-calibration-bug. The work-around is simply to unplug one of the monitors. The connection also drops, at least when I'm mucking about with the settings non-stop, but I can do the same with any other similar app (to each their own talents, eh?).. When employing the work-around above, choosing the lower resolution monitor to unplug works best since you have more options for resolutions that way, and if are working from a device with Retina Display you'll need those higher resolutions. Install "Display Menu" on your Mac to get the "size" and "shape" that suites you. RDP: The MS app works just fine for this, but the Remotix app takes care of RDP just as well, and why bother having two apps that do the same job, right? Creating different resolutions for RDP is a no-brainer since RDP is a better protocol all around, but Remotix still gets points for keeping its UI clear and simple. Documentation: Meh. If you have to read an excessive amount of documentation, there is something lacking in the software. But Remotix could have more .. front and center. I didn't look too hard in the docs but just the same I only *accidentally* discovered that a Right-Click was achieved with a two-fingered-tap. I'm too happy about that feature to further criticize the docs. Display: To get text and icons on your remote desktop to be big enough to manage, you have to lower the remote resolution. The result being that your remote session appears fuzzy. There are other approaches but none that work real well. Arguably this is not the failing of the remote client software but the OS itself, since [particularly with OS X] creating a remote-friendly desktop scheme has never been the aim of our OS overlords. At some point they have to get on the ball though, because they can sell twice as much system software and hardware if they better marry the remote and desktop system. So let us see which OS company gets to that point first. :)
Review by PapaRaven on Remotix VNC, RDP & NEAR.