Chrome Remote Desktop

Google LLC

About this app

Securely access your computers from your Android device.

• On each of your computers, set up remote access using the Chrome Remote Desktop app from Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop
• On your Android device, open the app and tap on any of your online computers to connect.

For information about privacy, please see the Google Privacy Policy (http://goo.gl/SyrVzj) and the Chrome Privacy Policy (http://goo.gl/0uXE5d).

Ratings and reviews

Keyboard interaction is a problem in the new web based version, you can't type directly anymore and passwords are obviously shown in clear, this is far from ideal. The old non web based version was better from literally every point of view, this is not a step forward but an unnecessary step backwards, bring back the old version and retire this one already please.

I've been using this app for a while, and I used to believe this was the best remote desktop app out there. Until recently. I set it up to use with my brand new computer, connected it with my 23Utra as I had any other time and... nothing. You can zoom, change displays, but that's it. No left or right click, no input, nothing. I used RD to do programming on the go with my phone and now I can't. What happened Google?

What was once an effective, simple remote access tool has become a laggy, bloated mess that was changed in a way that no one asked for, can't be customised, and makes for an overall worse majority use case. Unless you are plugging a mouse and keyboard into your device to use this app, it is an extraordinary net negative for usability. Even then it will still be a laggy unusable mess, and at that point you may as well carry around a laptop.

What’s new

General fixes and stability improvements.