See the remote screen, not just reach it.
Project a peer's display over your LAN in H.264 and drive it with your cursor and keyboard — reach a headless or non-adjacent machine. Nothing else does this on Linux and Wayland.
Glide your cursor past a screen edge and it lands on the next machine — keyboard, clipboard, and files follow. The premium KVM that finally does Linux and Wayland, and the only one that shows you the remote screen. Encrypted, LAN-only, pay once.
Cross a screen edge and your input, clipboard, and files move with you — securely, over your own network.
Project a peer's display over your LAN in H.264 and drive it with your cursor and keyboard — reach a headless or non-adjacent machine. Nothing else does this on Linux and Wayland.
AES-256-GCM on every byte once you set a shared password. Peers find each other over the LAN — no cloud, no relay, no account.
The instant your cursor leaves a mapped screen edge, betterkvm grabs input locally and injects it on the peer. Cross back and it releases — no clicks, no hotkeys.
Anchor each machine to a specific monitor's edge, then drag everything into place in the visual layout editor.
Shared text clipboard, plus real files — paste one on another machine, or send it with a single command.
Peers discover each other over your LAN by name. You set the layout; betterkvm handles the addresses.
Install betterkvm on every Mac and Linux box, then grant input access once — a quick permission grant per OS.
Open the layout editor and drag each machine to the screen edge it physically sits on. Your config writes itself.
Push your cursor off that edge and it lands on the next machine — keyboard, clipboard, and files follow automatically.
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| Compare | betterkvm | ShareMouse | Lan Mouse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free + $149 lifetime | $149 / group | Free |
| Runs on Linux + Wayland | Yes | No | Yes |
| Screen projection | Yes | No | No |
| Clipboard + file transfer | Yes | Paid | No |
| AES-256 encryption | Free | Paid | Since 2026 |
| Multi-monitor edge anchors | Yes | Partial | Partial |
| Edge-crossing handoff | Yes | Yes | Yes |
One keyboard. One mouse. Every machine on your desk.
Free for 2 machines · Linux, macOS & Windows · no account to start
A free tier for small desks, and one-time lifetime licenses — priced per network, not per seat. No subscriptions, ever.
$0 forever
No account needed
For a two-machine desk.
$99 once
Lifetime · per network · 1 yr updates
For a small multi-machine desk.
$149 once
Lifetime · per network · 1 yr updates
For power users — adds screen projection.