Dayon! is an easy-to-use, cross-platform remote desktop assistance solution.

It consists of two parts - one for the assistant and one for the assisted. Both are included in one single package. As quick launch versions for Windows, they are also available as individual binaries, as snap, flatpak or nix for various linux distributions.

Key features

• easy setup (no router or network configuration needed on the assisted side)
• intuitive, multilingual user interface (de, en, es, fr, it, ru, sv, tr, zh)
• assistant and assisted functionality in one package
• secure, end-to-end encrypted communication (TLS 1.3)
• very low bandwidth usage
• cross-platform
• open source
• free (as hugs)

History

Dayon! was originally developed by Marc Polizzi back in 2008.

With his consent, I have taken over the maintenance and further development of this software in late 2016. I also moved the code base to GitHub, where it can easier be maintained.

Releases

The is v15.0.2 (Dolly Double II) - released more than ten years after the initial release.

While v15.0.0 was the first version in which the remote desktop could also be transmitted in colour - in addition to the bandwidth-saving greyscales, this one comes with a connection self-test for the assistant.

A complete list of the changes in this version is available here and an overview of the changes between the major versions can be found at: Changelog

The app is available directly from the Microsoft Store:

as snap:

as flatpak:

as nix:

Nixhub

or from ppa:regal/dayon

Website

Deutsch
English
Français
Swedish
简体中文

Currently, there is no online documentation available for Italian, Spanish, Russian and Turkish. Please refer to the English or French version.

Screen

Connection establishment

Trivia

Dayon! means "Come in!" in Visayas - a local Philippine dialect.

Developers

The project can be built with Maven:

mvn clean package

or with Ant:

ant clean build

Have a look at pom.xml or build.xml for details and advanced options.

Contributors

Any feedback and contributions are very welcome.

You don't have to be a programmer!

For example translations for additional languages would make this app more useful for more earthlings - see: src/main/resources/Babylon.properties or docs

Also, improvements of the existing translations and documentation are very welcome! As my knowledge of Chinese is far below zero - and my knowledge of Russian or Turkish just fractions better..

Further testing, especially on macOS with silicon (M series) would also be greatly appreciated.