Use case · remote desktop
No 60-second disconnect. No “is this commercial use?” wall. No appeal form. On Mac, Windows, and the browser — an end-to-end encrypted WebRTC connection that ends only when you close it. Try it free for 7 days.
Mac · Windows · browser · 7-day free trial · $399 lifetime · 0.1.x public preview
You opened a free remote desktop tool to fix one thing on a machine in the next room. Forty seconds in, the session drops. A banner says “Commercial use detected.” You weren't doing anything commercial. There is a form. The form takes days — sometimes weeks — to resolve, if it resolves at all. In the meantime you cannot reach your own computer.
If you searched remote desktop without commercial use detection, you already know this loop. This page is about how Scry is built so it never happens.
The big incumbents fund a free personal tier by aggressively pushing anyone who looks like a business onto a paid plan. To do that they watch your sessions — connection frequency, session length, how many machines, whether a pattern “looks” commercial — and when a heuristic trips, the free session is throttled or cut. The heuristic has no idea whether you're a sysadmin or a person helping a parent print a boarding pass. It guesses, and it guesses conservatively, because a false “commercial” flag costs them nothing and a missed one costs them a sale.
Scry does not run that heuristic. From the product contract: “Sessions are never time-limited or throttled.” There is no session-pattern classifier, no 60-second timer, no reconnect penalty, no appeal form — on any plan. A Scry session ends when you close it.
Scry is genuinely complete for the single-machine, single-screen case — and you can try the whole thing free for 7 days before paying:
Host a Mac or Windows PC
Connect from a Mac, Windows PC, or any modern browser — no extension required on the viewing side.
End-to-end encrypted connection over WebRTC
WebRTC is an open, audited standard, not a proprietary black box. The connection is end-to-end encrypted with DTLS-SRTP — see the encryption note below.
Full control of one screen
Keyboard and mouse, primary-display streaming, clipboard text sync, automatic quality tuning, in-session chat, and reconnect after a network flap.
No watermark, no nag wall, no cap, ever
No session length limit. No reclassification waiting to disconnect you, on any plan.
Once you're in, everything is included — there's no basic-vs-Pro feature split. The fuller set (multi-monitor switching, audio streaming, file transfer, trusted device sharing, Stealth Mode, and session recording) is currently in preview while Scry finishes wiring it up at the 0.1.x stage, and the iOS and Android viewer apps are still maturing at the 0.1.x stage. We will not pretend otherwise.
Scry sessions run over an end-to-end encrypted WebRTC connection using DTLS-SRTP. The encryption keys are negotiated directly between your two devices; our relay only exchanges connection details and, when a direct path isn't possible, forwards already-encrypted packets it cannot read. No server in the middle decrypts your screen, your input, or your clipboard.
Start with a 7-day free trial — credit card required. After that Scry is $9.99/month, $95.99/year, or $399 once for lifetime (the lifetime also unlocks 9 other Bravely utilities). Multi-monitor, audio, file transfer, trusted sharing, Stealth Mode (all in preview), plus the iOS and Android apps are all included. There is no commercial-use reclassification waiting to disconnect you on any plan.
Mac, Windows, and the browser. No detection, no timer, no nag. Try free for 7 days, then $9.99/mo or a $399 lifetime.
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