Aspia
Free remote desktop and file transfer toolkit
Aspia is a free, open-source remote desktop and file-transfer application supporting desktop management, view-only sessions and a self-hostable relay and router. It works across Windows and Linux.
Key features
- Remote desktop and file transfer
- Self-hostable relay/router
- End-to-end encryption
- Cross-platform
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- Active community (1.9k GitHub stars)
- Written in C++
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
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