← RFB 003.008 → RFB 003.008 ← VeNCrypt · X509Plain · TLS 1.3 ● SecurityResult: OK — framebuffer 1920×1080, Tight/JPEG

A VNC client, not a platform.

minimalVNC is a native macOS client for the modern VNC stack — RFB 3.8, Tight + JPEG, VeNCrypt TLS, and keyboard handling that survives a German layout. No account. No telemetry. No Electron.

Get it on the Mac App Store What it speaks connecting is free, forever

The minimalVNC home window: favourites in the sidebar, Quick Connect on the right

SetEncodings — what the client declares on the wire

Capabilities, by their real names.

Every card below is a message your server actually receives. If you know what these numbers mean, this is your VNC client.

encoding 7

Tight + JPEG

Full-speed rendering at 1920×1080 with zlib palette and JPEG filters. Raw-only clients crawl; this one doesn't.

security 19

VeNCrypt over TLS 1.3

X509Plain and friends, with trust-on-first-use for the self-signed cert on your homelab box.

−258 · QEMU keys

Keyboards that type right

Physical scancodes instead of guessed keysyms — German, Austrian, any layout maps correctly server-side.

0xC0A1E5CE

Clipboard both ways

Extended clipboard with full UTF-8 — real text sync, not latin-1 mangling.

−308 · ExtendedDesktopSize

Desktop follows your window

Resize the Mac window and the remote desktop resizes with it, edge to edge.

Keychain

Favourites, stored properly

Connections saved for one click; passwords live in the macOS Keychain, never in a JSON file.

FramebufferUpdate — pixels, as received

Straight screenshots.

Unretouched captures from real sessions. Click any of them.

minimalVNC home window with favourites and Quick Connect — home — favourites & quick connect

Remote Hyprland desktop decoded live by minimalVNC — a real wayvnc server, decoded live

A live remote session rendered in minimalVNC — session window, remote terminal

minimalVNC Pro upgrade screen — the pro screen

Pricing

Free to connect. Pay if it earns it.

The point of the app — connecting to your machines — costs nothing. Pro is for people with a fleet.

FREE

€0

forever

Quick connect to any server
2 saved favourites
One session at a time
Every encoding & cipher — nothing held back

PRO

€0.99

per month · or €7.99/year

Unlimited favourites
Simultaneous sessions
Remote desktop follows your window

PRO LIFETIME

€19.99

once — no renewal, ever

Everything in Pro
All future updates
Buy it, forget it

Compatibility

$ minimalvnc --speaks protocolRFB 3.8 — servers stuck on 3.3 are refused, loudly serverswayvnc · TigerVNC · TightVNC · x11vnc · Xvnc securityNone · VNC Auth · VeNCrypt (TLS/X509, Vnc + Plain) not spokenRealVNC RSA-AES (129) · RA2 (5) macOS15.0 or later