ORelay compared with the others
Remote desktop tools are plentiful and most of them are good at the screen. ORelay is for the computers you look after rather than the ones you are handed once: the screen, a terminal, files and power, with the computer’s health, alerts, scheduled tasks and software list in the same place, from a browser or a phone. These pages say where that matters and where it doesn’t, with the other product’s prices read from its own pages and dated.
Page by page
- ORelay vs TeamViewer
TeamViewer is the best-known remote desktop product, with a free version for personal use and business licences sold per licensed user and per managed device, plus add-ons for monitoring, asset management and mobile devices.
- ORelay vs AnyDesk
AnyDesk is a fast, light remote desktop client with a free version for private use and business licences sold by concurrent connection and managed device, with session recording, an address book and mobile apps.
- ORelay vs RustDesk
RustDesk is an open-source remote desktop (AGPL-3.0) you can run entirely on your own server: a free server you install yourself, or a paid Server Pro with a web console, two-factor sign-in, an address book and single sign-on.
- ORelay vs Chrome Remote Desktop
Chrome Remote Desktop is Google’s free remote desktop: install its host on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer, sign in with a Google account, and reach the computer from Chrome or the phone app with a PIN; or share your screen once with a one-time code.
- ORelay vs Pulseway
Pulseway is remote monitoring and management built around its phone app: monitoring and alerts for Windows, Mac, Linux and network devices, remote control, patch management and scripting, with antivirus, backup, ticketing and documentation as add-ons, sold to IT departments and managed service providers.
- ORelay vs NinjaOne
NinjaOne is an endpoint management platform for IT departments and managed service providers: monitoring, patching, software deployment, scripting, backup and remote control (NinjaOne Remote) for Windows, Mac and Linux, priced per endpoint and sold by quote.
- ORelay vs Atera
Atera is remote monitoring and management with a help desk, billing and an AI copilot, sold per technician with unlimited endpoints, in one set of plans for managed service providers and another for IT departments; its remote control comes through Splashtop, or AnyDesk on the higher plans.
In a sentence
- Splashtop
- Remote access sold per user, with a support edition. Strong for remote work from your own desk; monitoring and management are separate, higher tiers.
- Action1
- Patch and endpoint management, free for the first 200 endpoints. Built around patching and vulnerability reports rather than remote access; the right pick when patching is the job.
- Tactical RMM
- An open-source RMM you host yourself. For the person who would run RustDesk’s server: everything on your own machine, and all of it yours to maintain.
Looking for one feature?
The whole table: ORelay beside all seven on 53 rows, from single sign-on and roles to patching, alerts and SOC 2, each answer from the product’s own pages. Every product page has the same rows with the sentence and the source behind each one.
By situation
Rather than product by product: helping the family with their computers, or looking after an office’s computers without an IT department.
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