AVNC vs Cloak
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
AVNC
AVNC is an open source VNC client for Android. It allows you to remotely control any device running a VNC server. Features: - Material Design (with Dark theme) - Configurable gestures - Virtual Keys - VNC Repeater support - Wake-on-LAN support - Built-in SSH tunnel (VNC over SSH) - Picture-in-Picture mode - View-only mode - No-video mode - Automatic Server Discovery (Zeroconf) - Import/Export servers - Clipboard Sync with server - `vnc://` URI support - TLS support (AnonTLS, VeNCrypt) - Tight encoding support
Cloak
A Cloak plugin for Shadowsocks. Cloak is a universal pluggable transport that cryptographically obfuscates proxy traffic as legitimate HTTPS traffic, disguises the proxy server as a normal web server, multiplexes traffic through a fixed amount of TCP connections and provides multi-user usage control. Cloak works fundamentally by masquerading proxy traffic as normal web browsing traffic. This increases the collateral damage to censorship actions and therefore make it very difficult, if not impossible, for censors to selectively block censorship evasion tools and proxy servers without affecting services that the state may also heavily rely on. Details on how Cloak works can be found here. Shadowsocks-android is required, as well as a Cloak-compatible proxy server.
| Feature | AVNC | Cloak |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid |
| Categories | ProductivityMessagingBrowser | VPNProductivityMessagingBrowser |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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