Still the best after all these years – Jump Desktop (RDP, VNC, Fluid) Review

I’ve been using Jump on my iPhone and iPad for around 7 years, and in that time never once felt compelled to find a different RDP/VNC app. Keyboard and mouse input are both handled very well. You can do all the weird special and modifier keys needed to control Windows, combine them with mouse clicks, the works. The virtual mouse is precise and intuitive, with touch-and-hold right-click, double-tap-and-hold dragging, two-finger swipe scroll wheel emulation, and probably other things I haven't discovered yet. Bluetooth keyboard support is outstanding. Jump supports all the modifier keys nearly as well as an actual Windows machine. Multitasking support is great. If you need to reference something in, e.g. Safari, iBooks, or Mail, go right ahead - your connection will still be open and waiting when you go back to Jump. If you take too long and iOS suspends or closes Jump, it will automatically reconnect your session as soon as you open it again. (Just make sure the server you're connecting to isn't configured to automatically log out disconnected sessions!) And you can take advantage of split view on iPad. Proper support for the iOS clipboard is included. You can copy and paste between your local apps and the remote session just as you might with a desktop RDP client. Huge, huge plus. It's also possible to print a document on the remote system, and have it sent to any AirPrint-supported printer available to your iPhone/iPad. Jump supports SSH tunneling, defined per connection, which is great if you use tunneling as a quick-and-dirty VPN, like I do for accessing my home computer. Once configured, there are exactly zero additional steps in connecting to the machine. The ONLY missing feature I can think of that I'd love to see is the ability to switch between multiple simultaneous connections. As it stands, you have to disconnect and then connect to a different machine. If you're feeling adventurous, you can always RDP to one machine, then use an RDP client on that machine to open a couple more sessions. Not ideal, but still usable. Bottom line: if you're in the market for a remote desktop app for your iPhone or iPad, then Jump Desktop is worth every penny.
Review by davidbrit2 on Jump Desktop (RDP, VNC, Fluid).