Remote Desktop Leaderboard

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Remote Desktop LeaderboardUpdated September 2026

The Best Remote Desktop Software: AI-Verified Rankings

An independent ranking of 11 Remote Desktop vendors, scored monthly across 6 trust dimensions using public review data, community sentiment and verified evidence.

11 vendors scored6 scoring dimensionsLast updated September 2026

Quick answer

BeyondTrust is the best overall Remote Desktop vendor right now, scoring 77/100. RemotePC is the strongest pick for value for money. Full ranking and reasoning below.

How we scored Remote Desktop

Every vendor below was evaluated using the same 6-dimension trust framework (the same methodology we use for every category on Verified Layer) rather than a single star rating. See exactly how this framework works further down this page.

⭐Product Quality

🏆Market Reputation

💬Community Sentiment

🤝Customer Experience

⚙️Technical Credibility

💰Value for Money

Full Remote Desktop ranking

Composite score out of 100, weighted across all 6 dimensions.

BeyondTrust

BeyondTrust is a privileged access management (PAM) and identity security vendor whose lineage traces to Symark (founded 1985), later renamed BeyondTrust in 2009 and re-formed under that name when Bomgar acquired it in 2018. Its Pathfinder Platform unifies Privileged Remote Access, Remote Support, Password Safe, and Endpoint Privilege Management to give IT and security teams centralized, audited, VPN-free control over privileged sessions and credentials. Privately held (majority owner Francisco Partners, with a minority investment from Clearlake Capital since 2021), BeyondTrust has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for PAM for seven consecutive years and serves a large base of enterprise and mid-market customers across regulated industries.

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Strength

Strongest in Technical Credibility (88/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Value for Money (56/100).

NinjaOne

NinjaOne (formerly NinjaRMM) is a modern, fast-growing remote monitoring and management (RMM) and endpoint management platform for MSPs and internal IT teams. Founded in 2013, NinjaOne has grown rapidly through venture funding and is frequently cited as one of the fastest-growing companies in the MSP tooling space, known for its clean interface and strong customer satisfaction scores.

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Strength

Strongest in Product Quality (80/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Market Reputation (70/100).

Zoho Assist

Zoho Assist is the cloud-based remote support and unattended remote access product from Zoho Corporation, founded in 1996 (as AdventNet) by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas. Zoho is a privately held, famously bootstrapped/self-funded software company that has never taken outside venture funding, now serving more than one million paying customers and 150 million-plus users across its 55+ application suite from offices in 28+ countries. Zoho Assist provides on-demand and unattended remote access to Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android devices, integrates with the wider Zoho suite (Desk, CRM, Analytics), and is marketed on affordability and simplicity for SMBs and MSPs. Zoho Corporation holds SOC 2 Type II attestation, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, and ISO/IEC 27701 privacy management certification, and publishes GDPR-aligned data protection commitments across its products.

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Strength

Strongest in Value for Money (80/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Market Reputation (62/100).

Splashtop

Splashtop is a remote access and remote support software provider founded in 2006 in San Jose, California by CEO Mark Lee alongside co-founders including CTO Philip Sheu. The company serves over 30 million customers spanning IT support, MSPs, education, and BYOD/remote-work use cases, and reached a $1 billion valuation following a 2021 Series E funding round. Privately held, Splashtop reported $104.7 million in revenue in 2024 (up from $82.8 million in 2023) and achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification in 2025 alongside existing SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA/FERPA compliance.

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Strength

Strongest in Product Quality (81/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Community Sentiment (65/100).

N-able

N-able is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) and security platform for MSPs, spun off from SolarWinds as an independent public company in 2021. N-able trades on the NYSE under the ticker NABL and focuses specifically on the MSP market with RMM, backup, security, and email protection products.

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Strength

Strongest in Product Quality (70/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Community Sentiment (56/100).

RealVNC

RealVNC is the Cambridge, UK-based company founded by Andy Harter that originated the VNC (Virtual Network Computing) remote access protocol, developed at the University of Cambridge's AT&T research lab in the late 1990s. Its VNC Connect product (formerly separate VNC Server/Viewer apps) provides cross-platform remote access and support for Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi, iOS, and Android, used by IT teams, MSPs, and individual professionals in more than 90,000 organizations. RealVNC is privately held and appointed Michael Henssler as CEO in October 2025 to lead its next phase of growth. The company holds ISO 27001:2022 certification and UK NCSC Cyber Essentials accreditation, and its downloadable Viewer app has been installed over 7.8 million times.

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Strength

Strongest in Product Quality (76/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Market Reputation (58/100).

ScreenConnect

ScreenConnect (formerly ConnectWise Control) is a remote support and unattended remote access tool originally developed in 2008 by Elsinore Technologies and acquired by ConnectWise, LLC in February 2015. Deeply integrated with ConnectWise's PSA and RMM tools, ScreenConnect is one of the most widely deployed remote-support products among managed service providers (MSPs) and internal IT help desks, offering both cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployment options. In February 2024, ConnectWise disclosed two critical ScreenConnect vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-1708 and CVE-2024-1709, the latter rated CVSS 10.0) that were rapidly and widely exploited — including by ransomware actors — before most on-premises instances were patched, a significant security event for the product.

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Strength

Strongest in Product Quality (72/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Technical Credibility (44/100).

AnyDesk

AnyDesk is a remote desktop access application founded in 2014 in Stuttgart, Germany by Philipp Weiser, Andreas Mähler, and Olaf Liebe, several of whom had prior experience building remote-access engine technology. Known for its proprietary low-latency DeskRT video codec, AnyDesk has grown to over 145 million downloads and is used by more than 25,000 companies in 190+ countries, including numerous Fortune 500 organizations, backed by growth investors including Insight Partners, EQT, and General Atlantic. In February 2024, AnyDesk disclosed that attackers had compromised its production systems and stolen its code-signing certificate; the company revoked the compromised certificate, rotated credentials, and reset all customer web-portal passwords as a precaution — a significant security incident for a widely deployed remote-access tool.

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Strength

Strongest in Product Quality (78/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Technical Credibility (44/100).

GoTo Resolve

GoTo Resolve is the unified IT management and remote support product from GoTo (formerly LogMeIn, founded 2003; renamed GoTo in 2022), combining remote access/control, unattended access, helpdesk ticketing, patch management, and AI-assisted diagnostics in one console. GoTo was taken private in 2020 by Francisco Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital (Elliott Management) for $4.3B, and its former subsidiary LastPass completed a full separation from GoTo in May 2024 following the 2022-2023 security incidents in which LastPass's and, subsequently, GoTo's own encrypted backups and an encryption key were compromised. GoTo reached a lender debt-exchange framework in January 2024 to address its balance sheet, and current CEO Rich Veldran (in the role since January 2024) has led the company's ongoing restructuring and product consolidation, now reporting over $1 billion in annual revenue and 3,000+ employees.

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Strength

Strongest in Product Quality (70/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Technical Credibility (48/100).

ISL Online

ISL Online is a remote desktop and remote support software provider founded in 2001 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with its first ISL Light product released in 2003. Developed within the XLAB group (led by CEO Gregor Berginc) and offered in both cloud and fully self-hosted (on-premise) deployment models, ISL Online serves IT professionals, helpdesks, and MSPs in over 100 countries with AES 256-bit encryption, ISO/IEC 27001 certification, two-factor authentication, and session recording. In September 2025, ISL Online was acquired by PDQ, a US-based endpoint management and IT automation vendor, following a prior 2024 technology partnership between the two companies; ISL Online continues to operate as a standalone product and as a built-in feature within PDQ Connect.

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Strength

Strongest in Value for Money (72/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Market Reputation (46/100).

RemotePC

RemotePC is a remote desktop access product from IDrive Inc., a Calabasas, California-based cloud storage and remote-access company originally founded in 1995 as Pro Softnet Corporation and rebranded to IDrive Inc. in 2013. RemotePC targets individuals, small businesses, and MSPs with an affordably priced remote-access and remote-support tool, competing heavily on price against TeamViewer, AnyDesk, and Splashtop. The product holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certifications and supports HIPAA, PCI, and FIPS-validated cryptography for regulated customers, alongside dedicated MSP and Enterprise editions.

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Strength

Strongest in Value for Money (86/100).

Watch out for

Lower relative score on Market Reputation (48/100).

Side-by-side comparison

All composite scores out of 100, same 6-dimension framework.

Rank	Vendor	Strongest dimension	Composite
1	BeyondTrust	Technical Credibility	77
2	NinjaOne	Product Quality	74
3	Zoho Assist	Value for Money	74
4	Splashtop	Product Quality	73
5	N-able	Product Quality	69
6	RealVNC	Product Quality	68
7	ScreenConnect	Product Quality	64
8	AnyDesk	Product Quality	64
9	GoTo Resolve	Product Quality	64
10	ISL Online	Value for Money	63
11	RemotePC	Value for Money	61

How we score AI & search visibility

Every brand we audit (including each Remote Desktop vendor above) gets scored with this exact 6-dimension framework, drawing on the same 20 public review sources and a 14-point evidence checklist.

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11 Remote Desktop vendors scored so far.

The 6 scoring dimensions

Average score per dimension across all 11 ranked Remote Desktop vendors: the same weighted framework used for every category on Verified Layer.

18% weightProduct Quality

16% weightMarket Reputation

15% weightCommunity Sentiment

14% weightCustomer Experience

13% weightTechnical Credibility

11% weightValue for Money

See the full VTSS scoring methodology →

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Remote Desktop software?

BeyondTrust currently ranks highest for Remote Desktop, with a composite trust score of 77/100 across product quality, market reputation, community sentiment, customer experience, technical credibility and value for money.

What are the top alternatives to BeyondTrust?

NinjaOne and Zoho Assist are the next-highest scoring Remote Desktop vendors in this ranking, based on the same 6-dimension trust framework.

Which Remote Desktop vendor offers the best value for money?

RemotePC scores highest on Value for Money (86/100) among ranked Remote Desktop vendors.

How is this Remote Desktop ranking determined?

Each vendor is scored monthly across 6 weighted trust dimensions (product quality, market reputation, community sentiment, customer experience, technical credibility and value for money) using AI-driven analysis of public review and community signals. See our full scoring methodology for the complete framework.

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