Reach your computers from your phone or any browser, wherever you are: terminals, files, screen and power button, with the very same session you left at your desk.
No sign-up · No servers of ours in between · All platforms
Every terminal lives on your computer and shows up everywhere at once. Not a copy, not a reconnect: the very session your desk is running, scrollback and all. Close the laptop lid on the task, open your phone, and answer.
Illustration: a terminal at a desk runs a deploy. When it asks a question, the phone gets a notification, shows the same session, and the reply typed on the phone appears at the desk too.
Each part is built for the screen in your hand: real terminals with the keys phones lack, files you can open and send, and the desktop when you truly need it.
Tabs for each project, kept alive when your phone sleeps or the signal drops. Esc, Tab, Ctrl and arrows are one tap away, and long output wraps to fit.
Browse, open, edit and download. Send a photo or a file from your phone straight to your computer, ready for the terminal.
See the screen and drive it with touch, or turn the phone into a trackpad and keyboard. Pinch in to read the small print.
Lock it, put it to sleep, restart it. See what's running and how hard your computer is working before you head home.
One download, no administrator needed on Windows or Mac. It starts with your login and opens your browser.
curl -fsSL https://get.yonderdesk.app/latest/install.sh | shOn Windows or Mac: download it instead.
On the computer itself, so nobody else can. Then scan the code it shows with your phone.
The code carries your computer's address and its certificate fingerprint. Each code works once, for ten minutes.
Pick one or all three. The app uses whichever works where you are.
Your phone talks to your computer and nothing else. There's no Yonder cloud to sign in to, to breach, or to switch off.
| Yonder | Remote desktop apps | SSH apps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The same terminal the desk is using | Yes, any program, live on both | Only as a picture of the screen | A new session, unless you set up tmux |
| Sign-up with the vendor | None | Usually required | Often, for sync |
| Traffic through the vendor's relays | Never | Often | No |
| Files, screen and power controls | All in one app | Screen first; files vary | Terminal only |
| Tells you when a task needs you | Yes | No | No |
| Price | Free | Free for personal use, then paid | Free to subscription |
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Yonder runs on the computer you want to reach. Install it there first, then link your phone from the page it opens.
Windows 10 (1809+) and 11, 64-bit. No administrator needed. Windows will warn that the installer isn't signed yet: choose More info, then Run anyway.
Download for WindowsMacs with Apple silicon, with Homebrew: terminals and the yonder command need it. Open the download, Control-click Install Yonder, and choose Open. If Open isn't offered, use System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway. It offers to install tmux and ffmpeg with Homebrew.
Download for MacThe Android app adds notifications, the terminal keys and background reconnects. Any phone browser works too: open the address your computer shows. The iPhone app isn't public yet. On an iPhone, open your computer's Tailscale or tunnel address in Safari, then Share › Add to Home Screen. Safari can't open the same-Wi-Fi address: that one is pinned for the apps.
Android 8 or newer. Open the download and allow installing from your browser when asked.
On your phone right now? Open yonderdesk.app on your computer to install it there first.
Yes. Yonder runs on your own computer and uses no servers of ours, so there's nothing to meter. No trial, no seat count, no sign-up.
Yes. Start anything in a terminal at your desk, then open the same tab on your phone: you see the same session, you're told when it's waiting for you, and what you type goes into it. Your desk shows it as it happens.
No. At home, turn on "Allow phones on this Wi-Fi" on your computer and your phone connects directly, encrypted. To reach your computer from anywhere, Tailscale is the easiest free option; your own Cloudflare Tunnel works too.
Nothing is lost. Terminals keep running on your computer. When your phone comes back, it reconnects and catches up on what you missed.
It includes one, for when you need the screen. But most of the time you'll use the parts made for a phone: terminals that fit the screen, files, and one-tap system controls. They're faster and easier to read than a shrunken desktop.
Yonder is a closed-source product. It's built so that it doesn't need your trust in a cloud: everything stays between your own devices, every download has a published checksum, and a new device can't get in without a one-time code from you or your approval at the desk.
Linux (Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+, Fedora or Arch, x86_64), a Mac with Apple silicon, or Windows 10 (1809+) or 11, 64-bit. Seeing and controlling the desktop on Linux needs a KDE or GNOME session; terminals and files work on any of them, including a headless server.
Your computer needs to be on. On Linux, Yonder runs as a background service; on Mac and Windows it starts when you sign in. It can't control the Windows sign-in or lock screen yet.