Screens VNC - Remote Access To Your Computer App Reviews

I do business work on two Macs behind different firewalls, and must be able to access both from an iPad while on the road. This app does the job, even when "Back To My Mac" cant. Convenient, well-designed, and reliable. Boom.

Love this application on both OSX and iOS. Use it to manage my Mac Mini Server and other Macs in our house. Works well and does the job.

Opened the app. Connected to my mac. Selected the main screen. Crash….

I have been looking for a good VNC program for a very long time. I found this one and it was magic. I used it to connet to a friends cmputer and she lives in the next county. I am able to connect to her computer seamlessly. It is easy, fast, reliable, and fool proof (for the most part). I highly suggest getting this app over anything. Even Log Me In!

I use a mix of Apple’s Remote Desktop and this app to manage many Macs that are remote or in data centers. I really appreciate the thoughtfulness and features that lie on top of a rock solid, well performing VNC engine. Kudos to the team for a well refined, continually updated and secure way to remotely manage Mac, PC and other UNIX workstations. The screens connect feature to help locate machines that do not have the luxury of a public IP address is excellent as well.

Went all in on this and bought the OS X and IOS versions. The VNC and screen shareing already work great in OS X but Screens claim is remote service which is great for family and friends when you working with their system from home. Thier "screens connect" service is extremly random in its efficiency and reliability. Compairing it to Teamviewer and even MS remote desktop solutions, Screens ended up being the worst in setup, connection reliability , and overall function. If you need intranet or access to machines in your home network ( not accessing from outside your home) and cannot understand the use of basic OS X screen sharing or VNC then this is ok but extremely pricey. However Teamviewer is mostly free for personal use and is a better more reliable option. The design of the OSX Screens version seems very dated and would not look out of place if we were still in a 10.5 OSx world but..

Let’s not talk about those cool features. There’s no point of talking about those if the basic work cannot be done correctly. Being a VNC client, its most important thing I think is to support the most popular VNC server. Does it support? Nope. It won’t connect to RealVNC server. I raised this problem in my previous review months (if not years) ago, but it’s still not fixed. Workaround? Yes. Change RFB protocol on the server side to 4.1, then Screens can connect to RealVNC server. Ok, so now you can connect (after quite a bit trial and error), but wait a minute, the screen doesn’t look correct. I have a number of virtual machines at home and I have VMWare set up with VNC access. I’m seeing color blocks in virtual machines. Well, it is true I’m not seeing on a connection provided by RealVNC, I still blame Screens because “Screen Sharing” and RealVNC viewer are able to handle the rendering correctly.