Most remote desktop tools assume you want to hand over control. Often you don’t — you want someone to see your screen, or you want to watch theirs, with the mouse staying exactly where it is. DoorDast treats view-only screen sharing as a first-class mode, not a checkbox buried in settings.
Two ways to share view-only
1. Share to a browser — nothing to install
Your viewer opens a link in Chrome or Edge, enters your code, and watches live — from any device, on any OS. Browser guests can never take control; the mode is enforced by the session itself, not by trust. Full details: remote desktop in the browser.
2. App-to-app, with input off
Between two DoorDast installs, connect in view-only when watching is all that’s needed — checking on a long-running render, reviewing a colleague’s setup while they drive, or supervising without touching.
Why view-only matters
- Safety by construction. A viewer who cannot send input cannot click, type, delete or install — there is nothing to trust and nothing to slip.
- Comfort for the person sharing. “They can only see what I show them” makes people far more willing to accept help or give a demo.
- The right tool for demos. Meetings apps bundle screen share with calls, invites and calendars. DoorDast shares a screen in ten seconds with a code.
Private even while shared
View-only sessions are end-to-end encrypted like every DoorDast session — the stream is sealed on the sharing PC and opened only by the viewer. And DoorDast hides its own windows from the share automatically, so your codes, controls and chats never appear on the viewer’s screen.
Need control after all? Switch to a full session any time — same app, same code flow. Download DoorDast for Windows, free.