Use case · remote desktop
No 60-second disconnect. No “is this commercial use?” wall. No appeal form. Free single-monitor on Mac, Windows, and the browser — a transport-encrypted WebRTC connection that ends only when you close it.
Mac · Windows · browser · lifetime Pro $99 · 0.1.x public preview
You opened a free remote desktop tool to fix one thing on a machine in the next room. Forty seconds in, the session drops. A banner says “Commercial use detected.” You weren't doing anything commercial. There is a form. The form takes days — sometimes weeks — to resolve, if it resolves at all. In the meantime you cannot reach your own computer.
If you searched remote desktop without commercial use detection, you already know this loop. This page is about how Scry is built so it never happens.
The big incumbents fund a free personal tier by aggressively pushing anyone who looks like a business onto a paid plan. To do that they watch your sessions — connection frequency, session length, how many machines, whether a pattern “looks” commercial — and when a heuristic trips, the free session is throttled or cut. The heuristic has no idea whether you're a sysadmin or a person helping a parent print a boarding pass. It guesses, and it guesses conservatively, because a false “commercial” flag costs them nothing and a missed one costs them a sale.
Scry does not run that heuristic. From the product contract: “Free is never time-limited or session-throttled.” There is no session-pattern classifier, no 60-second timer, no reconnect penalty, no appeal form. A free Scry session ends when you close it.
Scry's free tier is genuinely complete for the single-machine, single-screen case — it is not a trial and not a teaser:
Host a Mac or Windows PC
Connect from a Mac, Windows PC, or any modern browser — no extension required on the viewing side.
Transport-encrypted connection over WebRTC
WebRTC is an open, audited standard, not a proprietary black box. We say transport-encrypted, not end-to-end — see the encryption note below.
Full control of one screen
Keyboard and mouse, primary-display streaming, clipboard text sync, automatic quality tuning, in-session chat, and reconnect after a network flap.
No watermark, no nag wall, no cap, ever
No session length limit. No reclassification waiting to push you onto Pro.
What's not free: multi-monitor switching, audio streaming, file transfer, trusted device sharing, Stealth Mode, and session recording are Pro features and are currently in preview while Scry finishes wiring them up at the 0.1.x stage. The iOS and Android viewer apps are Pro-only by design — there is no free mobile tier. We will not pretend otherwise.
Scry sessions run over a transport-encrypted WebRTC connection. We are not claiming end-to-end encryption on this page, because the formal evidence to back that specific claim is not published yet. If you need a verified end-to-end guarantee today, treat that as not-yet-proven here and choose accordingly. We would rather lose the click than overstate this.
Free covers single-monitor desktop and web forever. Pro — multi-monitor, audio, file transfer, trusted sharing, Stealth Mode (all in preview), plus the iOS and Android apps — is $4.99/month, $39.99/year, or $99 once for lifetime. No subscription is required to keep using the free tier, and there is no commercial-use reclassification waiting to push you onto Pro.
Free single-monitor on Mac, Windows, and the browser. No detection, no timer, no nag. Lifetime Pro $99 when you want the scale-up features.
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