Rustdesk
rustdesk/rustdesk
An open-source alternative to TeamViewer.
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. (from the repository)
- Stars
- 126,288
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-16
- Written in
- Rust
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 12 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Recent
1.5.0, 28 days ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
97% closed
113 open · 4,348 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+1,021 in 9 days
126,288 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.
What a business may do with it
Network copyleftAGPL-3.0
Like the GPL, and offering a modified version to users over a network counts: they are owed its source.
This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.
Run it yourself
Docker, quoted from Rustdesk’s own README as written. We have not run it, and most projects expect you to set secrets or a database before production use.
docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/home/user/rustdesk -v rustdesk-git-cache:/home/user/.cargo/git -v rustdesk-registry-cache:/home/user/.cargo/registry -e PUID="$(id -u)" -e PGID="$(id -g)" rustdesk-builder
Rustdesk against the other open-source options
Every project offered against TeamViewer, most-starred first.
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rustdesk (this page) | 126,288 | Active | Network copyleft | Docker | Rust |
 MeshCentral | 7,439 | Active | Permissive | ○ | HTML |
 Remotely | 5,085 | Quiet | Copyleft | Compose | C# |
 Apache Guacamole | 4,014 | Active | Permissive | ○ | C |
 Myrtille | 1,981 | Quiet | Permissive | Docker | C# |
Where this page comes from
- Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
- The pairing with TeamViewer and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
- Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data