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Screens Review: The Best VNC Client Around
what is up guys this is max square and
in this video we're going to be taking a
look at an app called screens but before
we get started I'd like to give a shout
out to adelphia for giving me a free
copy of this app to review so screens is
basically a VNC client that allows you
to connect to your computer from an
iPhone or another Mac device the screens
app for iOS is $19.99 all the Mac App is
$29.99 now if you don't want to jump
into this then you can download a free
trial if you head over to the website
I'll put a link down in the description
to check it out now get into the details
of which app does what but for right now
I'm going to show you a basic demo of
logging into my computer from my iPhone
so now I have not Item my computer yet
so I'm going to go to discovered and add
bb-8 because that is my computer name
and I'm going to type in my username and
password and you'll see a pop up in my
saved screens tab so that means when I
come back and say Yap I don't have to
add the computer again I can just tap on
the screen and it'll log me in now you
can see that I'm actually viewing my
screen on my computer and I can swipe up
turn off my orientation lock and now
view it in landscape mode you have tons
of controls from the iOS app and I was
really impressed when I first opened it
to see that you could actually do that
much from your iPhone so you can zoom
into different parts of screen and drag
it around to move around of course and
to click something you just do a tap and
then for something like a right-click
you would just zoom into whatever you
want to click on and then just press and
hold now you do also have a toolbar at
the bottom of the screen and you can see
I have options like escape tab shift
control option and command and as I
scroll to the left you'll see the other
options that I have
this menu is also customizable so you
can rearrange which icons show we're not
to the left you have the option to bring
up the keyboard and to the right of that
you have the option to bring up your
share menu so this can close your
screens connection you can switch it to
observe mode so if you're sharing a
screen with a friend you won't
accidentally take control over their
computer you can just switch it to
observe mode you can go to trackpad mode
which is basically as you would imagine
just a trackpad you can just move it
around on the screen and you can take a
screenshot and what my favorite option
here is is you can send and receive a
clipboard so if you have something on
your computer that was copied you can't
find it on your phone you can log in
copy it and it'll send it to your iPhone
if you select get clipboard then vice
versa if you have something on your
iPhone you might send to your Mac you
can send the clipboard and it'll receive
it on your Mac so I'm not going to get
into stuff like the settings or the
menus so we can have time to view the
Mac app as well so the way that screens
works is that you install a client for
your computer and this will work for Mac
and PC so you just install a free
screens client and once you do that your
iOS device can talk to your computer
then if you want to control another
computer from your Mac you will have to
purchase the $30 Mac app version so once
you have it installed you'll see that I
have the screens icon in the menu bar I
can click on that and it'll show me my
recent computers that I've logged into
and all the computers that are on my
network not just in the screens network
but also just nearby on the same Wi-Fi
network so if we go out to take a look
at the Preferences you'll see that we
have the option to show the dock icon
and hide the screens icon in the menu
bar but I like to keep it in the menu
bar and hide it from the dock so that's
not in the way in my dog but I can
quickly access it one
so you have some other options to sync
your settings over iCloud or Dropbox or
just using local storage as you can see
there and I just use iCloud it's the
easiest way to do stuff between your iOS
devices then you also have some options
to customize your connection settings
passwords for other computers and some
keyboard shortcuts so one of my favorite
things as you all know is the design of
an app and I really have enjoyed using
the app on both Mac and iOS versions I
love the blur transparency and
typography on the iOS app and I'll have
a small and easy to use the screens app
for mac is now I've used tons of
different VNC clients over the years and
this by far is definitely my favorite
and while it is a little pricey I use it
almost every day in case I forget
something I can log back into my
computer to quickly grab a file check
something and send it back to my iPhone
overall I would give this app a 5 square
rating now I know this is kind of a
different video but I hope you all enjoy
the review thank you so much for
watching and I will see you in the next
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