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General

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The General pane contains the basics of ProRDP’s configuration, including server status and controls, startup behavior, power management, and the macOS permissions ProRDP depends on.

Getting Started

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This guide takes you from download to your first Remote Desktop session.

Requirements

macOS 15 Sequoia or later
A Mac with Apple silicon or an Intel processor
A Remote Desktop client, such as Windows App or Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc) on Windows

See System requirements for the full list, including network ports and tested clients.

Account

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The Account pane sets the one username and password a Remote Desktop client must present to connect. ProRDP gives you two kinds of account, and each has a real security trade-off.

Connection

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The Connection pane controls how clients reach the Mac and what crosses the connection once they’re in: network transport, authentication, clipboard contents, and keyboard shortcuts.

Licensing

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How you can use ProRDP depends on whether you’re using it for yourself or for a business.

Home and personal use

ProRDP is free for home and personal use. You don’t need a license key or an account, and no features are held back. Download it, install it on your Mac, and connect from any Remote Desktop client.

Experience

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The Experience pane controls what a session looks, feels, and sounds like on the client: how it relates to the Mac’s own screens, how sharp and roomy the desktop is, how much bandwidth video can use, and where audio plays.

System Requirements

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ProRDP runs on the Mac you want to connect to, and you connect to it from a standard Remote Desktop client. Nothing needs to be installed on the client.

The Mac

Requirement	Details
macOS	macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
Processor	Apple silicon or Intel. ProRDP is a universal app, so one download runs natively on both.
Permissions	Screen Recording and Accessibility, granted in System Settings › Privacy & Security. ProRDP asks for both and links to the right pane. See General › Permissions.
Account	A user logged in to the Mac, running ProRDP.

ProRDP encodes the screen as H.264 using the Mac’s hardware video encoder. Higher resolutions, higher frame rates and more monitors need more encoding work. For example, on an M4 Mac mini, three 1080p monitors fit comfortably at 30 fps, but two 4K monitors don’t, so the session lowers its frame rate. See Experience › Enable multi-monitor support.

Security

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The Security pane controls how the server proves its identity to clients, and what ProRDP keeps as a record of who connected and what happened. Auditing and recording are both off until you turn them on.

Introducing ProRDP

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Why I made my own RDP server for macOS

In the past few decades of alternating between Windows and macOS as my daily driver for both work and personal use, there’s one thing that Windows has out-of-the-box that I could never find a good solution for on macOS: reliable, high-performance remote desktop access.

About

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RDP is amazing on Windows. And free!

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has been the gold standard for fast, reliable remote access to Windows machines for decades. It’s built in, hardware‑accelerated, and doesn’t require licenses, subscriptions, or third‑party software. If you’ve ever RDP’d into a box under your desk or a server in a closet, you know how seamless it feels.