# Remote Utilities > Remote administration tool with a self-hosted server option Remote Utilities is remote control software built around a Host module that you install on each Windows, macOS or Linux computer and a Viewer you connect from, including free apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. It is aimed at administering and supporting computers, your own or an organization's, over the internet or a local network, and it can run through your own server instead of the vendor's. - **Category:** Remote Desktop - **Made by:** Remote Utilities Pty (Cy) Ltd. - **Website:** https://www.remoteutilities.com - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Remote Utilities's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Internet-ID connections:** Connect to a Host by its Internet-ID with no router or firewall setup, or directly by IP address on a local network. - **Self-hosted server:** Run your own Remote Utilities server for address book sync, server-based sign-in and relaying connections through your own infrastructure. - **File transfer and power control:** Copy files both ways with resumable transfers, and shut down, restart, lock, sleep or hibernate the remote computer. - **Privacy controls:** Blank the remote screen and block local input while you work, then lock the computer and end the session in one step. - **Address book:** Folders, per-connection settings and templates, with several local or synced address books and full import and export. ## Good for - System administrators managing many Windows, Mac and Linux machines - Organizations that want remote access relayed through their own server - Reaching your own computers from a phone or tablet over the internet or LAN ## Worth knowing - The vendor's website answered with a bot check from the US and a notice from India, so no prices or licence terms could be read; this listing has none. - Remote Utilities says its software and services are not available in some locations; visitors from India were told it is not sold there. - The Host module runs on Windows, macOS and Linux; the iPhone, iPad and Android apps are for connecting to those computers. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Remote Utilities is a sysadmin's remote control tool: install a Host on each Windows, Mac or Linux machine, connect by ID or over your local network, and relay it all through your own server if you like. We can't tell you what it costs. Its website blocked our reader, and it says it isn't sold everywhere. - **Value for money: C.** No price or licence terms could be read: the website answered our reader with a bot check from the US and a not-sold-here notice from India. That's the C we give any missing price, with no figure to set against RustDesk or ScreenConnect for the same job. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The Host module and the phone Viewer apps are free to install, and the phone app is free for work too. How many computers a free licence covers couldn't be read, so we can't say how far it gets you. - **Features: C.** Connections by Internet-ID or IP address, a self-hosted server, resumable file transfer, power controls, screen blanking and detailed address books. It covers the basics of administering machines, but the listing shows no on-demand support sessions or recording. - **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. Host modules, Internet-IDs, address book templates and an optional server of your own: powerful, but it's an admin's tool with a learning curve. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Hosts on Windows, Mac and Linux, and free viewer apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. There's no web app, integration list or API on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Remote Utilities' own pages on 18 October 2026. Its website 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 - Remote Utilities's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 0 of the 15 other remote desktop apps we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 0 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 Remote Utilities 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: 12 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. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Remote desktop, Self-hostable ## Alternatives - [RustDesk](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rustdesk): Open-source remote desktop you can run on your own server. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/remote-utilities-vs-rustdesk) - [ScreenConnect](https://toolgpa.com/tools/screenconnect): Remote support for IT teams and MSPs, priced per concurrent technician. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/remote-utilities-vs-screenconnect) - [AnyDesk](https://toolgpa.com/tools/anydesk): Remote desktop app, free for personal use, licensed for business. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anydesk-vs-remote-utilities) - [TeamViewer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/teamviewer): Remote access and IT support, free for personal use only. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/remote-utilities-vs-teamviewer) - [Getscreen.me](https://toolgpa.com/tools/getscreen): Browser-based remote access for IT teams, with a free two-device plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/getscreen-vs-remote-utilities) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.remoteutilities.com/ - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/remote-utilities/id793320970 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.remoteutilities.mviewer&hl=en_US&gl=US Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/remote-utilities Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).