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MultiVNC is a cross-platform SSH-enabled VNC viewer. The desktop client runs on Unix, Mac OS X and Windows. There also is an Android client.

From bk138·Updated June 23, 2026·View on GitHub·

MultiVNC is a cross-platform SSH-enabled VNC viewer based on [LibVNCClient](https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver). The desktop version uses [wxWidgets](https://www.wxwidgets.org/) and runs on Unix, Mac OS X and Windows. There also is an [Android version](/android/). The project is written primarily in C++, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2013. Key topics include: android, cross-platform, linux, macos, multicast.

Latest release: MultiVNC-0.11.0
March 15, 2026View Changelog →

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MultiVNC is a cross-platform SSH-enabled VNC viewer based on
LibVNCClient. The desktop version
uses wxWidgets and runs on Unix, Mac OS X and
Windows. There also is an Android version.

The roadmap for future developments regarding the project can be found
here.

Features

  • Support for most VNC encodings including Tight.
  • TLS support, i.e. AnonTLS and VeNCrypt, including support for self-signed certificates.
  • Support for SSH-Tunnelling with password- and privkey-based authentication.
  • Unicode copy & paste to and from the VNC server.
  • Discovery of VNC servers advertising themselves via ZeroConf.
  • Bookmarking of connections.
  • UltraVNC Repeater support.
  • Supports server framebuffer resize.
  • Experimental support for MulticastVNC.

Desktop-only Features

  • Several connections with one viewer using tabs.
  • Listen mode (Reverse VNC). Via tabs it's possible to listen
    for and serve multiple incoming connections.
  • Record and replay of user input macros.
  • Multi-sync input where input to one connection is replicated to others.
  • Under X11, seamless control of the remote side by moving pointer over the
    (default upper) screen edge. Borrows heavily from x2vnc by
    Fredrik Hübinette hubbe@hubbe.net, which in turn was based on
    ideas from x2x and code from vncviewer.
  • Simple, loggable statistics.

Android-only Features

  • Import and export of saved connections.
  • Virtual mouse button controls with haptic feedback.
  • Two-finger swipe gesture recognition.
  • A super fast touchpad mode for local use.
  • Hardware-accelerated OpenGL drawing and zooming.

How to get it

MultiVNC for Desktop

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To get bleeding-edge packages built from the master development branch, navigate to
the list of CI runs,
select the last successful one and download the wanted artifact.

MultiVNC for Android

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How to build

MultiVNC for Desktop

After cloning the repo, do

   git submodule update --init

Depending on which OS you are on, you end up with a debug version packaged
as a .deb, .dmg or .exe you can install:

Linux

   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
   cmake --build .
   cpack

MacOS/Windows

   conan install . --output-folder=build --build=missing -s build_type=Debug
   cd build
   cmake .. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="conan_toolchain.cmake" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
   cmake --build .
   cpack

MultiVNC for Android

See the Android version's README.

MulticastVNC notes

You can get a modified libvncserver/libvncclient at
https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/tree/multicastvnc -
this is the same library that MultiVNC uses internally.

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