Item: Splashtop
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I typically use Splashtop between home and customer sites. It allows me access to my home network from company locations.

Pros and Cons

There are no ads or complicated configurations or unnecessary restrictions - Splashtop is the most straightforward and efficient remote desktop product I have ever used in 20+ years of using remote desktop solutions.
It does a great job of managing multiple monitors, supporting file transfers, changing display resolutions, clipboard operations, and any other feature I have ever needed.
For a very reasonable price, I depend on Splashtop daily as part of my standard 'toolbox' of applications I depend on, across multiple Windows and Android platforms. Uptime is as good or better than ANY online product I use regularly.

It would be nice if Splashtop supported multiple simultaneous connections to multiple computers for the cost of an individual home user
Strangely, I sometimes forget the name "Splashtop" and it may take me a while to find it. A more catchy, easier-to-remember name might be welcome.

Return on Investment

Splashtop has no doubt saved me many hours of time, allowing me to access software, code, tools, and documents, which would otherwise block me from satisfying the requirements of a specific job.

Support Rating

I don't recall ever needing support from Splashtop and have not ever contacted them for any type of support.

I would welcome more robust security features, such as devices like Yubikey or Authenticator apps for integrating multifactor authentication. These may be config options that I have not used but the default setups have always been purely password-based, along with the ability for someone else online to manually grant access to another party seeking access, which is pretty reasonable.

Onboarding with Splashtop

I don't remember struggling to use Splashtop, as it acts and behaves very similar to other RDP products. I believe it was probably easier to learn and has fewer weird configuration options and setup features, nearly always using very reasonable and expected defaults.

Products Replaced

Key Insights

Do you think Splashtop delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Splashtop's feature set?

Yes

Did Splashtop live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Splashtop go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Splashtop again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio, Notepad++, Microsoft Windows

Likelihood to Recommend

For an individual using a personal license, you are occasionally faced with being blocked by a company IT department, although you are less apt to be blocked than some of the more well-known RDP solutions (TeamViewer, AnyDesk). But for solid access between your home network and a non-locked down corporate network, it is a great solution

Splashtop - My Go-to Remote Desktop Solution

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Splashtop