RDP Manager

A lightweight, cross-platform Remote Desktop connection manager for macOS and Windows. Organize dozens of RDP connections into groups, keep credentials in your OS keychain (never in a database), and launch sessions through your system's native RDP client with clipboard redirection on by default.

Features

• Groups & sub-groups — organize connections in a nested tree, drag-free, built for managing dozens of servers at once
• Live connection status — a green indicator shows which connections are currently active, and clears automatically the moment a session disconnects
• Secure credentials — passwords are stored in the OS keychain (macOS Keychain / Windows Credential Manager), never written to disk in plaintext
• Advanced RDP settings per connection — screen mode & resolution, color depth, multi-monitor, admin/console session, drive/printer/clipboard redirection, audio mode, RD Gateway, certificate trust behavior, connection timeout
• Native client launch — no bundled RDP protocol implementation; connections are handed off to sdl-freerdp/xfreerdp on macOS and mstsc on Windows, so clipboard redirection and performance match what you already trust
• Lightweight — built with Tauri (Rust + native webview), not Electron; no bundled Chromium

Screenshots

Connections & groups	Advanced settings

Download

Every push to main builds signed-for-dev installers via GitHub Actions:

1. Go to the Actions tab
2. Open the latest successful run
3. Download rdp-manager-windows (.msi / .exe) or rdp-manager-macos (.dmg / .app) from the Artifacts section

Builds are unsigned during development, so macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen will warn on first launch — this is expected until the app is code-signed for a proper release.

How it works

RDP Manager doesn't implement the RDP protocol itself. It's a connection manager: you fill in a profile (host, credentials, display/gateway/advanced settings), and when you hit Launch it hands everything off to your OS's real RDP client:

• macOS: sdl-freerdp (preferred, no XQuartz needed) or xfreerdp, both from FreeRDP (brew install freerdp)
• Windows: the built-in mstsc.exe

Clipboard redirection, performance, and protocol compatibility are exactly what those clients already provide — RDP Manager just remembers your servers, your settings, and your credentials so you don't have to.

Building from source

Prerequisites: Rust (stable), Node.js 22+, pnpm. On macOS, also install a native RDP client: brew install freerdp.

git clone https://github.com/yon3zu/Rdp-Manager.git
cd Rdp-Manager
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev      # run in development
pnpm tauri build    # produce a release installer for your OS

Windows and macOS installers are also produced automatically by .github/workflows/build.yml on every push to main.

Project structure

src/                    React + TypeScript frontend
  components/           sidebar (group tree), connection editor tabs, settings
  state/store.ts         Zustand store — all app state lives here
  api/tauri.ts            typed wrappers around Tauri IPC commands

src-tauri/src/          Rust backend
  db/                    SQLite (rusqlite) — groups & connection profiles
  credentials/           OS keychain access (the `keyring` crate)
  rdpfile/                generates .rdp file content (Windows / export)
  launcher/               spawns the native RDP client per platform
  sessions/               tracks active RDP client processes for the live status indicator
  commands/               #[tauri::command] functions exposed to the frontend

Tech stack

Tauri 2 (Rust) · React + TypeScript · Zustand · Tailwind CSS · rusqlite · keyring-rs