Jump Desktop (RDP, VNC, Fluid)

It’s truly an amazing app, but I truly wished there was a way to see the iPads battery capacity while connected, that would be cool! I often never know how much battery life I have left on my iPad while using it. Aside from that, amazing app

When you close out of the app. It’s still running in the background with no option to turn it off. You have to force close it every time. Not cool

I have a newborn and am rocking him while he naps me a lot. Pretty impossible to use a laptop like that but I needed to check on a couple of projects on my Mac occasionally. So I figured my iPad would be a good solution. I was shocked to find out that Apple Remote Desktop which I’ve used in the past doesn’t work for iPads to Mac. I was frustrated and found this app mentioned on Reddit. And it’s perfect. I can remote into my laptop and my Mac mini server form my iPad to check some things. I even can use my iPhone in a pinch. I’m super impressed and the price is reasonable as well.

Jump is great and very fast. One thing I would love to see is a keyboard or button shortcut to change monitors when using 2 or more screens.

This app has potential. I link the option to use Windows Multitouch with RDP, but it’s missing a few critical features to make it usable for me. The biggest one is microphone redirection for RDP. This is a complete dealbreaker for my use case. The other thing that would greatly improve the experience is hardware acceleration for RDP. The Mac version of Microsoft Remote Desktop has this, but the iPad version doesn’t either which is why I decided to try Jump instead in the first place. I requested a refund and will keep using Microsoft Remote Desktop, but if these features are ever added I will buy it again.

This is the best app from the app store to control a computer from an ipad. The only thing missing is to be able to have linear scrolling when controlling a windows computer (and not acceleration scrolling, which is messy on windows)

The app works sooooo much better than I thought! Fluid makes the connection sooo fast at 60 FPS even though its not perfect I would be happy if you keep improving it. butttt like every app, there’s a downside. There is no instructions on how to set it up on Linux.

I was using screen mirroring on my MacBook but wanted to switch to my iPad as a primary device and remotely log into my Mac. All the free software I tried just didn’t operate very well…controls were annoying. Took the leap and bought this software and no regrets. I love how it shows the full screen and with the Magic Keyboard it’s like using the ‘mouse’ locally on the machine. I do recommend cranking up the quality if you have the bandwidth. On the smaller 11” iPad makes it a lot easier to make out the details from the ‘larger’ screen I’m mirroring.

Works perfectly for all my needs! Thank you for addressing the bugs i mentioned in my previous review! Keep up the good work!

I bought this because it was supposed to work well, have pressure sensitivity support, and be subscription-free. It has absolutely failed the first two, and from statements made in the forums will fail on point three if you want pressure sensitivity. -the claimed ability to easily move files from iPad to desktop seems to be a complete fabrication. Drag and drop didn’t work, nor did copy and pasting. - the “full” support for the Apple Pencil claimed does not include pressure sensitivity or tilt sensitivity. More below. -support is a joke. Trying to get useful information out of the website, help files, or by reaching out to staff is nearly impossible. The few nuggets of useful information are scattered in tiny bits and random places, if even accurate. The troubleshooting guides are hilariously brief and not particularly helpful. Expect customer and tech support to ghost you if they even bother to reply in the first place. Both through their support forum, and via email. The support forum is full of questions no one even bothered replying to. I found more questions without replies than with. -and the slam dunk, that ensured this was a waste of money for art use: the iPad pencil sensitivity is not actually supported, despite claims that it is fully supported. According to comments by jump staff on the forums, It’s currently in beta, for Mac only, and once out of beta will require subscription to the *enterprise* plan. The highest business subscription plan they have. Because every artist has hundreds of dollars to burn every year-after all, we’re notoriously wealthy people, with massive support teams to organize (sarcasm, in case that’s unclear). I can’t even think how pressure sensitivity could benefit *most* businesses to the point of it being a selling feature. Slightly more natural writing feel? It’s still on the iPad surface so people will write like trash until they get used to it, regardless. In addition, Jump has some really weird UI choices and bugs that significantly increase friction. -for some absurd reason they set up the scrolling/swiping backwards, so if you’re switching between the rest of the iPad and jump so does the direction you have to scroll, it is maddening. -The swipe feature doesn’t even work consistently- for example the *windows program bar* will not swipe, so you have to use the search option, which is normally fine, but awkward and slow, and useless if you don’t remember the name of the program you’re looking for.