Remote Desktop 8

Microsoft Remote Desktop provides remote access to Windows desktops and apps.

Total ratings

3.91 (Rating count: 114,662)

Review summary

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Pros

Handy for remotely managing desktop PCs
More responsive and smoother than TeamViewer and Splashtop
Built-in to Windows 10, requires no extra work for deployment

Cons

Critical bugs remain unfixed (e.g., right shift key sticking with physical keyboards)
App deletion of saved connections after updates
Frequent freezes and connectivity issues reported

Most mentioned

Issues with the right shift key and physical keyboards
Loss of saved connections after updates
App freezing and disconnecting frequently

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User reviews

Recent rating average: 2.30

All time rating average: 3.91

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Date	Author	Comment
2020-12-27	Phil Ng	Video watching is buggy to say the least, the newer client is certainly better for that. The other Microsoft branded rdp client is version 10! High quality video streaming they allude to in the specifications is generally so buggy you'll get about 2 seconds before it hangs. I'm not rightly sure why anyone would stick with this version.
2020-12-10	Josh Gearon	This is pretty handy for remotely managing my desktop pc. Recently I've noticed that the black bar below my keyboard (AOSP A11 Gestural Navigation, GBoard) disappears during a session and I can't tap return or space unless I contact the top of those keys…and it slows me down a bit. But this works way better (more responsive, smoother) than TeamViewer or Splashtop. And it's already part of my W10 Pro deployment. So no extra work is needed to use it. And it works with my existing Live ID. Kudos!
2020-10-01	Tirian Wilson	Changing my previous review to a single star. The official Microsoft RDP app used to be the best of the free RDP clients for Android, but there is a critical bug that has remained unfixed for over a year. When using a physical keyboard - USB / Bluetooth / etc - the right shift key sticks. Unless you retrain yourself to only use the left shift key, doing any work is difficult and entering passwords is impossible. If you need a RDP client, then don't use the official Microsoft one, it will just frustrate you and lock your account out.
2020-09-19	Tim T	The app has a great deal of potential but the right shift bug (which has gone unfixed for years now) is show-stopping. It makes it somewhere between ackward and unusable to type on physical keyboards. You essentially have to train yourself to only use the left shift key. There is another version on the Play Store, also by Microsoft, simply called "Remote Desktop" that has this issue fixed and also does not have the copy-n-paste issue. I'd suggest everyone use that app instead.
2020-06-20	Kadah	The most recent update deletes all saved connections and accounts. Only found this out when I got an emergency call and when to use to app to check our system issue only to find all of my saved connections are now gone. MS has taken what would have been less than a 2 minute job and turned it in to a mess. The original iTap app was great with virtually no issues, worth twice what they asked for. Since the MS acquisition, it went downhill fast. It's taken MS years to fix half of what they broke.
2020-06-09	Yazev	Microsoft is copying Apple, in the sense that you have to have the "right version" of windows 10 to get it to work. I'm not paying extra for a whole second windows copy of Windows just to make it say "Pro" at the end, after already buying this copy I'm using now. It's a marketing gimmick, much like how you have to pay them to be able to watch videos with certain file extensions in their built in media player. But as usual, 3rd party software always saves the day.
2020-03-27	A Google user	TLDR: App is logging into my PC even when not running! So a couple months ago my PC seemed to be rebooting. Sometimes while working I would get a black screen and then a bit later the windows logon appeared. Sometimes I would return to my PC to find it on the logon screen (I never log off). I assumed something inside was overheating/failing. Troubleshooting found nothing wrong. About a week ago I was using this app for a specific purpose and changed the RDP resolution very low (640x480?). Since then I had the same "reboot" happen but now when I log back in, several apps are now resized/adapted for very low resolution (like how I was using it via RDP). This got me to check the RDP logs in system management and sure enough there were a TON of logins from the app to my computer. I don't know why this app (or perhaps some windows cloud server) is logging in to my PC when the app is not running. but it is very alarming.
2020-01-16	A Google user	Absolutely no complaints whatsoever. One of the best apps I've ever dealt with from Microsoft. It would be great if it contained dark theme but that's not really crucial. Thanks a lot to the dev team. Here's a major issue that I've recently discovered: an app drawer can't find this app when using any of these words: rdp, mstsc, remote, desktop. Please fix.
2020-01-15	A Google user	Works great, free, secure and built-in to Windows 10. Just turned on the remote desktop setting in Windows and was able to use this for everything I needed. Minus one star for being a little quirk regarding using scrollbars on the far left while trying to use the in-app keyboard. The screen seems to cut off the margins when the keyboard is open.
2019-09-27	A Google user	I had to use google chrome remote instead. Microsoft, please make more adjustment. I would like to remote desktop without interrupting any audio inputs or outputs on my pc. My pc streams radio reference audio feed and uses twotone detect which both use the sound card and if i use microsoft, it loses the audio connection. Ive tried disabling the remote audio. It still loses audio. Google chrome works perfect.

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