20 years with remote desktop says this is the best. – Jump Desktop (RDP, VNC, Fluid) Review

I've worked with so many different RDP packages, protocols, apps on probably every operating system (host and guest) except for perhaps Android* and DOS. I am so impressed by the work these guys have done on Jump that I felt it necessary to write a review (something I very rarely do). I even used Jump years ago and put it aside because, At the time, there were other better solutions. But in the meantime they've been hard at work. The "fluid" desktop is amazing - surpassed only by Jump's own version of Microsoft's RDP access into Windows 10 desktop and/or Windows Server 2012 R2. (I also am running a similar set up but against Windows Server 2016, but for some reason it's just not quite as snappy. It might be a setting somewhere along the way or perhaps that particular hardware configuration. But the resolution transition down to my iPhone 6+ seems to be harder to work with and either things on the desktop are too small to see or it requires a lot of panning and zooming.) But for The first time ever, I can actually work productively in Visual Studio 2017 running on my desktop with two large monitors - remotely from my tiny iPhone 6+ screen. That is amazing! After recently returning to Jump after a hiatus of several years, it's now my "go to" RDP solution from any device to any device, desktop, operating system or environment, physical or virtual. Whatever the case may be, moving from the Windows desktop to a remote session from one of my IPhones or iPads is about as seamless a transition as I could ever have imagined. Trying to do that same thing except targeting one of my Mac desktops (and yes, from those same iPhones and iPads) is painful and frustrating. Even with Jump's iOS apps. Obviously Apple doesn't give the Jump developers much to work with since it's almost impossible to RDP even just between any two Apple devices or machines. (Check out ARD 3.8.x or whatever version they say they're so thrilled about out in Cupertino and you'll see what I mean.) Kudos to the folks behind Jump. Excellent work! * Why not android? I've always been both an Apple and a Microsoft power user for decades. But I'm finally about to drop Apple after 25 years when I buy my first Samsung Galaxy 8+ or 9+ sometime in the next few weeks. Apple has become as arrogant and out of touch with reality as Microsoft was in the 90s. The last two years has been one frustration with Apple after another, headache after headache. See you later, Apple. With all that brainpower out in Cupertino and all the self-genuflecting "genius" embodiments heaped upon all the Apple Stores in all the malls across the country and around the world, it turns out that a relatively tiny company called Jump not only ate their lunch, but did so without an army of messaging experts, PR disaster handlers, or product image inflators running around trying to convince everyone that their 23-month-old iPhone only appears to be suddenly useless because Apple so thoughtfully (and quietly) added a clever new.... "feature!" that throttled your battery phone's computing power back to just 25% of the power it had new. And just in time for its latest product launch too! (At a time it needed the goosed revenues more than ever.
Review by phaeidaeux on Jump Desktop (RDP, VNC, Fluid).