Spiel vs Thumbdesk

Spiel is a beautiful player for your own movie & TV library. Connect a NAS, cloud drives, Plex or Jellyfin and watch on Apple TV, iPhone, Mac and the web, at home and...

Thumbdesk is a mobile app that connects a phone to Macs, PCs, Linux machines and SSH servers for terminal sessions, screen sharing, file transfer and live system stats.

About Spiel

Spiel is a beautiful player for your own movie & TV library. Connect a NAS, cloud drives, Plex or Jellyfin and watch on Apple TV, iPhone, Mac and the web, at home and away, with no port forwarding. MKV, HEVC, multiple audio tracks, embedded and sidecar subtitles. What the device can't decode, your server transcodes on the fly, seeking stays instant. You run a small server on your Mac, Windows, Linux box or NAS, point it at your files, and watch them on Apple TV, iPhone, Mac and the web, with beautiful artwork, resume-across-devices and remote access.

About Thumbdesk

Thumbdesk, listed elsewhere as PocketShell, gives developers and administrators phone access to their computers and servers. A small agent is installed on macOS, Windows or Linux with one command, then paired by scanning a QR code, and any SSH server can be added too. Connections are outbound only and terminal traffic is encrypted end to end over WebRTC, so no port forwarding or VPN is needed. Terminal sessions persist on the host, so a dropped signal does not end the shell. The app also offers screen sharing, file transfer, project views with git and live CPU and memory stats. It is free for two machines, while Pro covers ten machines for 39.99 USD a year.