Not bad – iRdesktop Review

Annoying ads on the home page are acceptable for a free product, especially since they go away when your actually in the remote client. The setup doesn't automatically use the hostname as the title as on the other RDP apps I've used, and if you assume it does you end up with a blank line in your index. Once in the RDP session the host was responsive using 100s vs 1000s of colors. I liked being able to switch between multiple sessions, hadn't seen that on the other client apps I use. Will have to look for it now on them. A major problem with the app was that it didn't refresh the screen consistently. For example I applied security patches on a server and when I closed the window the screen appeared to refresh every other line, leaving a weird ghost image. After opening and closing a couple more windows the ghost images started stacking up. Like I said, this is a good application, but has some issues that I'm not willing to put up with. I prefer to use a paid app, iTap RDP at this time, but will definitely keep an eye on this one. Actually, I'll keep it installed and see what kind of and the frequency of updates it gets. I'm an IT professional and am currently piloting iPad deployments for our managers, and still think this one has some promising features, and is easy to use for computer illiterate managers ;)
Review by TimWalshMi on iRdesktop.