As someone who had no need for Slack but did need to do a lot of remote pairing, I was really bummed when they acquired ScreenHero and was forced to find another tool.
I’ve been using Tuple since the first alpha was released and it has been awesome. They don’t have multiple simultaneous cursors (yet) but I actually like their current system more, only one person can control mouse/keyboard at a time and you just click to take over. Feels more like face-to-face pairing where only one person is driving at a time. As a bonus the mouse control actually feels right because they don’t have to do any weird hacks to trick the OS into displaying two fake cursors, it respects your tracking speed settings and all that stuff properly.
Performance is great too, I’ve been pairing 20 hours a week with a friend on a slower connection who lives in Arkansas (I’m near Toronto) and even sending 5K back and forth has worked flawlessly for hours at a time.
I’ve been using Tuple since the first alpha was released and it has been awesome. They don’t have multiple simultaneous cursors (yet) but I actually like their current system more, only one person can control mouse/keyboard at a time and you just click to take over. Feels more like face-to-face pairing where only one person is driving at a time. As a bonus the mouse control actually feels right because they don’t have to do any weird hacks to trick the OS into displaying two fake cursors, it respects your tracking speed settings and all that stuff properly.
Performance is great too, I’ve been pairing 20 hours a week with a friend on a slower connection who lives in Arkansas (I’m near Toronto) and even sending 5K back and forth has worked flawlessly for hours at a time.
Really, really good product.