For computers you control over remote desktop
Remote desktop sends your screen, not your voice. Remote Visio turns the browser on your laptop, phone or tablet into the microphone, camera and speaker of a remote Mac or PC, for Google Meet, Teams and Zoom on the web.
The gap
Windows has redirected the microphone over Remote Desktop for years. When the computer on the other end is a Mac, the usual tools send its screen to you and stop there. You join the meeting on the remote Mac, and nobody hears you.
Remote Visio fills that gap for meetings held in the browser, on a Mac or on any computer that runs Chrome, Edge or Brave. It runs beside your remote desktop tool, which keeps doing the screen, keyboard and mouse.
| Tool, controlling a Mac | Screen and input | Your microphone |
|---|---|---|
| TeamViewer | Yes | No picks up the Mac's own microphone instead |
| AnyDesk | Yes | No |
| Parsec | Yes | No |
| RustDesk | Yes | No |
| Jump Desktop | Yes | No |
| ToDesk | Yes | No has microphone mapping, but the controlled end must be Windows |
| macOS Screen Sharing | Yes | No |
| Microsoft RDP (far end is Windows) | Yes | Yes built in, and it stops at Windows |
| Remote Visio | Leaves that to your remote tool | Yes for web meetings in Chromium browsers |
How each tool behaves when the controlled computer is a Mac, as tested by Remote Visio's author. Tools change: if one has added it, tell us.
How it works
Through your remote desktop, open the extension's Chrome Web Store page in Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc and click Add to Chrome (Get in Edge), then pin it. Nothing is installed outside the browser, and no administrator is needed.
In the extension's button, click Pair a device and scan the QR code with your phone, or open the link on your laptop. The sender page at remotevisio.com/send shows a number: type it into the approval window on the computer and click Allow. Once per device, nothing to install on it.
In Google Meet, Teams or Zoom on the web, choose Remote Visio Microphone, Speaker and Camera, and allow the site once. With Use Remote Visio by default on, most sites pick them by themselves.
What the remote computer gets
On the remote computer, web meetings list three more devices next to its own. They come from the Remote Visio browser extension, and only the sites you allow can use them.
Your voice, from any browser, in the meeting on the remote computer. Noise and echo processing runs once, on your device: choose Denoise, Clean or Raw.
The meeting's sound plays on your device, not in the room around the remote computer. Turn audio off in your remote desktop tool and keep one low-latency connection.
Your phone's or laptop's camera in web meetings on the remote computer, picked like any webcam. Turn it off and on without reconnecting.
Web meetings only: the Zoom, Teams and FaceTime apps, dictation, Safari and Firefox cannot see the three devices. Join from the browser instead.
In use
Real screens from Remote Visio. Every status is a live value, the way you will see it.
Turn the microphone, camera and speaker on and off without reconnecting. Each device shows green when it gets through, amber while it is on its way, and red with what to fix.
Gets through On its way Needs you
Stop the camera and keep talking. The microphone and speaker carry on.
Each site asks once before it can use Remote Visio's devices. Take a site back at any time from the extension's button.
The extension's button shows each device, the site using it, and the paired devices. No administrator needed.
Parsec, AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Screen Sharing, Jump Desktop: keep using it for the screen.
Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android. Nothing to install on the device in front of you.
One link or QR code, one number typed on the computer. Paired devices appear in the extension's button; remove one and it is gone.
Encrypted WebRTC straight between your devices. Our relay passes only the encrypted connection setup; nothing is recorded.
Requirements
Four things, and you probably have three of them already.
Add to Chrome(opens the Chrome Web Store)A Mac or PC (macOS, Windows, Linux or ChromeOS) running Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi or Opera, version 116 or later, with the Remote Visio extension. Your meetings run in that browser. Tested on macOS; on Windows and Linux, keep a browser window open there.
Any modern browser with a microphone, and a camera if you want to send video. Nothing to install.
Your device and the extension meet through Remote Visio's relay, then the audio and video go directly between them when the network allows.
Parsec, AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Screen Sharing, Jump Desktop or another one, for the screen, keyboard and mouse.
Privacy
Audio and video travel over an encrypted peer-to-peer WebRTC connection between your device and the remote computer. There is no Remote Visio server in the audio path, no account and no recording. Our relay on Cloudflare passes only the encrypted connection setup, which it cannot read. To find a direct path, the devices ask public STUN servers (Google, Cloudflare, Xiaomi) for their public address; those servers see IP addresses, never your audio.
Read the privacy policyThe extension's devices reach only the sites you allow, and the connection to your device is encrypted end to end: even our relay cannot read it.
A one-time link or QR code, a number you type on the computer, Allow. Only paired devices can connect. They appear in the extension's button; remove one and it is gone.
Open source
Remote Visio is free software under the GNU AGPL-3.0, started by Shu Chunhui and published by Hykops. A tool that handles your voice should be one you can check.
No. Your remote desktop tool keeps doing the screen, keyboard and mouse. Remote Visio carries only the microphone, the camera and the meeting's sound, on its own connection, and the remote tool does not need to know it exists.
No. Remote Visio Microphone, Speaker and Camera exist only in web pages of a Chromium browser on the remote computer, so join from the browser instead (Zoom: "Join from your browser"; Teams: "Continue on this browser"). See Join Zoom and Teams from the browser.
No. The extension runs in Chromium browsers: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera. On the device you speak from, any modern browser works, Safari and Firefox included.
Nothing. Open remotevisio.com/send in a browser, pair it once with the remote computer, and press Start. The page remembers the computer for next time.
On the remote computer, click the extension's button, then Pair a device: it shows a QR code and a link that work for 10 minutes. Scan the code with your phone, or open the link on your laptop: the sender page shows a 6-digit number, which you type into the extension's approval window on the computer, then click Allow. Only paired devices can connect. A device not used for 60 days is removed, and you can remove one at any time from the extension's button.
Yes, from anywhere. Your device and the extension find each other through Remote Visio's relay on Cloudflare, which passes only the encrypted connection setup, never your audio or video; the audio and video then go directly between your two devices. Two devices that cannot reach each other directly (some corporate networks) do not connect: Remote Visio has no TURN relay yet.
About a phone call's: the network's delay plus a small buffer. Fine for talking and meetings, not for monitoring yourself while recording music.
Not if the meeting's sound plays through Remote Visio: keep the sender page's speaker on (that turns echo cancellation on in your browser) and turn audio off in your remote desktop tool. Hearing the meeting twice, or your own voice, means the remote tool still forwards sound. See Fix echo and double audio.
No. It goes peer-to-peer, encrypted, between your devices, and nothing is recorded. Our relay sees IP addresses and encrypted setup messages, never your audio or video; the public STUN servers that help find a direct path see only IP addresses. Details are in the privacy policy.
No. Nothing is installed on the computer: the extension comes from the Chrome Web Store and needs no administrator. If your organization manages the browser and forbids extensions, ask them to allow this one.
Any Mac or PC that runs a Chromium browser: macOS, Windows, Linux or ChromeOS. Remote Visio is built and tested on macOS. On Windows and Linux, keep a browser window open on the remote computer: the extension runs only while the browser does.
Yes. No account, no ads, no paid tier. It is open source under the GNU AGPL-3.0.
Probably not: Apple's Continuity Microphone and Continuity Camera already do that for free. Remote Visio is for distance: another room, another city, another country.
Yes: the extension runs in Chrome, Edge or Brave on Windows as well. For Windows to Windows, though, Remote Desktop (RDP) already redirects your microphone, so you may not need it.
Free · open source · no account
Add the extension to the browser on the remote computer, pair the device in front of you once, and press Start.