BURSUcm VS ShellNewHandler

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BURSUcm is the only connection manager that supports Apple's High Performance screen sharing. An AppleRD connection opens a Mac's screen in a tab, and on Apple silicon with macOS 14 or later it takes Apple's own High Performance path — H.264 or HEVC video decoded on your GPU, the Mac's system audio and a sharp virtual display sized to your window — the mode that so far only Apple's Screen Sharing app could use, now available from Windows, Linux and macOS.

Around that, it combines what is usually split across separate tools: SSH, WinRM, RDP, VNC, AppleRD, Telnet, Serial, Web, FTP and SFTP in one tabbed workspace, with its own built-in RDP (H.264, audio, multi-monitor) and VNC engines rendering right inside a tab. Credentials live in an AES-256-GCM vault whose key never leaves your device, and optional BURSUcloud sync is zero-knowledge — the server only ever stores ciphertext. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad, and it's free.

BURSUcm's answer

Most connection managers make you trade something away: the polished ones are Windows-only or paid, the cross-platform ones drop RDP/VNC or the encrypted vault, cloud-sync options ask you to trust their servers with your secrets — and none of them can reach a Mac the way Apple's own Screen Sharing does. BURSUcm doesn't ask for that trade.

• Macs: AppleRD with Apple's High Performance mode — GPU-decoded H.264/HEVC, the Mac's audio and a sharp virtual display — which no other connection manager offers
• Windows servers: built-in RDP engine plus WinRM, so PowerShell or cmd.exe opens in a terminal tab without a remote desktop
• Linux and network gear: SSH with ProxyJump, local/remote/SOCKS5 tunnels, tmux sessions that survive a dropped link, Telnet and Serial
• Security: an AES-256-GCM vault whose key never leaves your device, and zero-knowledge cloud sync

It's free and native on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad, and you can start fully offline with a local database and turn on sync only if and when you want it.

BURSUcm's answer

The Windows app is C# on .NET 10 with WPF and our own BURSUrdp engine for RDP. The macOS and Linux app is Electron + React/TypeScript over a shared .NET backend, with IronRDP for RDP. Android is Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, and iPhone/iPad is one universal native app. AppleRD is our own independent implementation of Apple's Remote Desktop protocol, including the High Performance mode with GPU-decoded H.264/HEVC video and audio. The BURSUcloud portal is PHP with PostgreSQL — one isolated database per account, reached only server-side through a zero-knowledge API. Secrets are protected with AES-256-GCM, PBKDF2 and platform key stores (DPAPI on Windows).

BURSUcm's answer

System administrators, DevOps and network engineers, developers and IT support teams — anyone who lives in remote sessions and manages more than a handful of servers. It is especially useful in mixed fleets: Linux over SSH, Windows over RDP and WinRM, and Macs over AppleRD, all from one catalog. It fits both the solo engineer who wants a fast local tool with an encrypted vault, and small teams that need to share a connection catalog with per-folder access control without handing everyone every password.

BURSUcm's answer

BURSUcm is built by BURSUsofts. It started from a simple frustration: existing connection managers were either locked to one platform, hid basic features behind a subscription, or asked you to store your secrets on someone else's server in plain reach. BURSUcm was built to be the tool its authors wanted — every protocol in one place, real encryption you control, and the same experience on every operating system — and it's kept free.

BURSUcm's answer

BURSUcm is a young product with a growing base of individual engineers and small IT teams; we don't publish customer names.