Remote Ripple

Connected to pc doesn’t work app just shuts down

Crashed back to splash 3 times before it connected m. Starts VERY zoomed in. Doesn’t support mouse and keyboard!? Doesn’t resize desktop. It’s been 5 mins and I want a refund

I’m surprised there aren’t many more reviews here so I was compelled to write something. I’ve been using tightvnc for a long, long time. It was used in the first feature film post production studio I worked at 15 years ago and I still use it at home to this day. I was pleased to see glavsoft had an iPhone app and I’ve been using this to remote into my media server. I found the user interface intuitive and easy to pick up. The software itself has run flawlessly so far. The only thing missing that I would use (not often though) is to copy and paste text from safari on my iPhone to the pc I’m controlling. It’s not a major thing though. I’m very pleased with this purchase and always happy with glavsoft products.

When I type in the host, there is no password field. When I try and connect, I do not see my VPS. I just see a black screen with a mouse diagram on it. Nothing happens. The developer of this tool, should not be charging any money for this, let alone £2.99 I would like my money back or I will contact Apple, to get this App removed. God knows why Apple allowed this App to make it into the App Store. Poor quality control.

Purchased it. Waste of money didnt work for me

Having previously tried quite a few VNC apps, I became a seasoned user of Remoter VNC, running TightVnc on my PC. It works well, has lots of features, but occasionally glitches. Whilst checking for TightVnc updates on their website, I saw they recommended their shiny new app Remote Ripple for iOS. Aha! I thought, maybe that will be a better fit! Nope. The interface is crude, features are very few and I cant find any special keys or basically anything other than the plain mouse clicks. I couldn't get Remote Ripple to recognise local computer names, which was not helped by a complete lack of any kind of documentation. This has the feel of (the beginning of) a work in progress, but unless I have missed something, I would say don't bother.

Contected quickly to tight vnc servers. I just use it to check on my local computers to see task progress so it's good enough. Don't expect to navigate a desktop os easily obviously but this is good enough for some tasks and it's free.

Screen scaling seemed to function in a reasonable way on my iPad. Local network connections did not work until I gave them a fqdn.

Works great for local control. Over the LAN with TightVNC as the local server. Was able to zoom in on the phone, click, right click, with little latency.

This almost works. The screen looks good; it has a mostly usable virtual keyboard, and you can navigate a “Start Menu” by touching the screen. But as others have said, there is no scaling control. The app seems hard coded to magnify a small peephole from the desktop to fill the iPad or iPhone screen. I tried reducing my actual desktop resolution but never got it small enough. 1440 x 900 x desktop didn’t fit on the 2160 x 1600 iPad screen. Looked like maybe 1200 x 800 would have fit. I played with encoding and image quality settings; no effect on the scaling. Also I couldn’t execute a right-click. The mouse pointer would go to a location I touched on the iPad screen. But when I then touched the right-click button on the mouse widget, the pointer would first jump to that place (the spot under the mouse widget) on the remote screen, and THEN execute the right-click. The client shortcomings turned out to be irrelevant in my particular situation. I had hoped to watch “Forged Alliance Forever” replays on the iPad screen. FAF ran but the refresh rate was about 3 seconds / frame. Probably a server limitation. So, Remote Ripple did allow me to learn my idea wouldn’t work, at zero cost.