# AnyDesk > Remote desktop app, free for personal use, licensed for business AnyDesk is remote desktop software for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, ChromeOS and iOS, used both to reach your own computers and for IT and help desk support of other people's. It is free for personal use only: any computer that starts connections for commercial use needs a Solo, Standard, Advanced or Ultimate licence, while the computers being reached do not. Ultimate can also run on your own server. - **Category:** Remote Desktop - **Made by:** AnyDesk Software GmbH - **Website:** https://anydesk.com - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing AnyDesk's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Interactive and unattended access:** Connect to any number of devices when the person there accepts the request, or to managed devices without anyone present using a password: up to 100 on Solo and 1,000 on Advanced. - **Wide platform coverage:** Clients for Windows and Windows Server, macOS, Linux and Raspberry Pi, Android and ChromeOS, and iOS, iPadOS and tvOS. - **Remote print and Wake-on-LAN:** Print a document from a remote Windows computer on your local printer, and wake a sleeping Windows, Intel Mac or Linux device when another AnyDesk device on its network is online. - **Screen privacy:** Black out the remote screen so people near the device cannot see what you are doing during a session. - **my.anydesk portal:** A management portal to see licence and invoice details, manage linked clients and address books, review sessions and build custom clients. - **On-premises server:** The Ultimate licence can run on your own appliance server, so only your custom clients can connect, even without internet access, with a REST API for integration. ## Good for - Reaching your own home or work computer at no cost for personal use - Self-employed IT specialists who need one user with up to 100 unattended devices - IT teams and service providers supporting many people's computers - Enterprises that need remote access hosted inside their own network ## Worth knowing - AnyDesk's website answered automated readers with a bot check, so no prices could be read; its help center sends buyers to the pricing page or the my.anydesk portal for figures. - The free version is for personal use only; any outgoing connection for commercial use needs a paid licence. - Standard includes 20 users but only one simultaneous outgoing connection; more are add-ons. - On-premises hosting is only on the Ultimate licence, which is quoted by sales. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. AnyDesk runs on just about everything, from Windows and Linux to Raspberry Pi, iPhone and even Apple TV, and it's free for personal use. For work you need a licence, and we can't tell you what one costs: AnyDesk's site turned our reader away. Free sessions also time out and have to be restarted. - **Value for money: C.** No price could be read: AnyDesk's website answered our reader with a bot check, and its help centre sends buyers to the pricing page. With no figure to set against TeamViewer or Splashtop for the same job, it gets the C we give any missing price. Personal use is free; work use needs a licence. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free for personal, non-commercial use, which covers reaching your own computers. But free sessions time out and have to be restarted, and any outgoing connection for work needs a paid licence. No trial is on record. - **Features: C.** Attended and unattended access, remote printing, Wake-on-LAN, screen privacy, a management portal and an on-premises server with a REST API. The gaps it lists itself: Standard allows one outgoing connection at a time, and self-hosting is Ultimate only, quoted by sales. - **Ease of use: B.** 4.49 from 28,268 App Store ratings, which is a B on a crowd that size. The person at the other end accepts your request and you're connected. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Windows, Mac, Linux and Raspberry Pi, ChromeOS, iPhone, iPad, Android and Apple TV. That's a lot of devices, but there's no web app or integration list, and the REST API comes only with the on-premises server. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from AnyDesk's own help pages on 18 October 2026, and its App Store rating. AnyDesk's pricing page turned our reader away when we checked it again that day. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among remote desktop apps - AnyDesk's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 4 of the 15 other remote desktop apps we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 5 of 15) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/remote-access ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace AnyDesk you would be making a fast, secure link to another computer through any network. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 9 of the 15 other remote desktop apps grade higher. - You could not: A fast, secure link to another computer through any network. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.5 out of 5 from 28,268 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1176131273 **Tags:** Remote desktop, Self-hostable, Public API ## Alternatives - [TeamViewer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/teamviewer): Remote access and IT support, free for personal use only. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anydesk-vs-teamviewer) - [RustDesk](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rustdesk): Open-source remote desktop you can run on your own server. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anydesk-vs-rustdesk) - [Splashtop](https://toolgpa.com/tools/splashtop): Remote access to your own computers, plus separate IT support plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anydesk-vs-splashtop) - [Chrome Remote Desktop](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chrome-remote-desktop): Google's free remote access to your own computers from a browser. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anydesk-vs-chrome-remote-desktop) - [RemotePC](https://toolgpa.com/tools/remotepc): Low-cost remote access to your own computers, from IDrive. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anydesk-vs-remotepc) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://support.anydesk.com/docs/anydesk-licenses.md - https://support.anydesk.com/docs/how-is-anydesk-pricing-structured.md - https://support.anydesk.com/docs/what-if-i-need-longer-sessions-time-on-the-free-version.md - https://support.anydesk.com/docs/on-premises.md - https://support.anydesk.com/docs/security-and-privacy.md - https://support.anydesk.com/llms.txt - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anydesk-remote-desktop/id1176131273 - https://support.anydesk.com/docs/screen-privacy.md - https://support.anydesk.com/docs/remote-print.md - https://support.anydesk.com/docs/wake-on-lan.md Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/anydesk Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).