Keep your Mac reachable from anywhere.

Farcursor alerts your phone when a Mac you reach remotely stops answering, and shows the setting to change when the screen will not draw.

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What it found on our own Mac

Ten Jump Desktop sessions in a row connected to a black screen. RustDesk showed the desktop every time on the same Mac, the same days.

A remote session is likely to fail

Jump Desktop: 10 sessions connected with no desktop

11 networks are in view; on this kind of Mac, Jump sessions with 12 or more stayed black while 9 or fewer worked

Turn Wi-Fi off while Ethernet is connected (2 fewer)

Quit VPNs you are not using (2 fewer)

What it checks

Sessions that never showed the desktop, from Jump Desktop's and RustDesk's own logs
What puts extra networks in view: Wi-Fi beside Ethernet, VPNs, virtual machines, a phone on USB
The screen capture service running out of room

Price

Free

$0

Status in the menu bar on one Mac, and 14 days of phone alerts.

Pro

$29 a year

Phone alerts, history and diagnostics for one Mac. Three Macs: $49 a year.

Local

$39 once

History and diagnostics on one Mac. No phone alerts.

Join the beta

The beta is free. We send builds by email, a few people at a time.

Good to know

Needs macOS 14 or later. With phone alerts on, the Mac checks in every minute; when three minutes pass with no check-in, our server sends the alert. Only the name you give the Mac, a state and the time leave it. Alerts arrive in the free ntfy app for iPhone and Android.

Nothing needs an admin password, and nothing restarts unless you ask. Screen Recording is asked for only if you run the one-frame screen test.

Paid plans come with a license key by email, tied to the email you buy with. A refund turns the key off. A renewal keeps phone alerts on without pasting a new key.