About

One desk. Too many computers.

betterkvm started where most software KVMs gave up — a desk running Linux next to a Mac, with two keyboards and nowhere to put your hands.

Software that shares one keyboard and mouse across machines has been around for years — but the good, polished ones were built for Windows and macOS and treated Linux as an afterthought, if they supported it at all. The Linux options were free and capable but fiddly, input-only, and late to encryption. If you wanted a premium experience and you ran Linux, you were out of luck.

betterkvm is the tool that should have existed.

What it does

Glide your cursor past the edge of one screen and it lands on the next machine — keyboard, clipboard, and files follow automatically. Reach a headless or non-adjacent box by projecting its screen over your LAN. One pointer, every computer, no switch to wire up.

What we believe

  • Private by default. Everything runs on your LAN — no cloud, no relay, no account. With a shared password, every byte is AES-256-GCM encrypted.
  • Pay once. A free tier that's genuinely useful, and lifetime licenses when your desk grows. No subscriptions, ever.
  • Every platform is first-class. Linux (X11 and Wayland), macOS, and Windows — designed together, not ported as an afterthought.

Ready to reclaim your desk? Download betterkvm — it's free for two machines.