Being a fully remote team across 5 countries, we lose the advantage of being able to work "together" in an office. Being in software development, this lack of connection causes difficulties. Zoom can help with video calls themselves, but screen sharing on Zoom and being able to actually click into the other user's screen has a lot of friction. With CoScreen, we all jump on the call, share relevant windows/monitors, and it just *works.* No friction and very few clicks, compared to Zoom. I love this tool!

Being able to interact with colleagues' desktop / VSCode instance / browser Rearranging all of my colleagues' monitors on my own monitor so that we can collaborate in real-time

The only thing I could think of to be improved is maybe the ability to drag people's web camera views around like we can do with the monitor screens.

I've been able to troubleshoot programs much more quickly with CoScreen. I genuinely love it.

My collaborator had the ability to click in the shared window, which makes things so much more efficient.

The video of the collaborator isn't the focus, but I wish it could at least have the option of being bigger.

Unlike other products I've used like Zoom, Google Meet etc. CoScreen allows you more choice than either just share the entire desktop or a specific window, and instead lets meetings be more dynamic in content - sharing and un-sharing windows as needed. I don't have to worry about notifications or other sensitive information I didn't intend to share showing up. And that's super important as an HR person!

The connection is not as stable as other software we use (like zoom). This makes use codescreen only for specific things and not all the calls.

Working remote with CoScreen is an incredible experience. With other screen sharing apps you always have to be sharing back and forth your screen to explain your point/idea to your collaborators. With CoScreen you can share multiple screens at the same time and jump into 3rd party windows/tabs to show, teach, or learn how to do something.

CoScreen offers features that no other collaborative screen sharing app does. The ability to share multiple screens and move them around so they fit your desktop PLUS being able to jump into your collaborators tabs feels like magic.

The onboarding process still feels a bit clunky. Also, there is a discovery process the user goes to where they are not sure what the software is really capable of.

It's working great. We don't use it exclusively but rather selectively for development collaboration. We have done this within the limits of the free beta and now within the limits of the free tier. The moment we will need it more I'm happy to pay it. We can't replace Zoom or Google Meet with it though, because it's a different tool with a different focus. Which is good. The features they offer are so good.

I can share multiple separate windows and my collaborators can drag them around as if they are their own native windows. In addition I can directly participate within a shared remote window. That's super awesome The days people leaked notifications, private email windows or embarrassing photos from the desktop background are gone. Other screen sharing software allows to shared individual windows too, but it's still a dumb canvas usually takes over your entire screen. CoScreen is very well integrated which I love.

I'm missing ways to annotate and scribble directly into the shared screen without actually modifying any remote content. I spoke to the CoScreen team and the feedback was noted. They are great in improving the software so this might arrive at some day. On the other hand, I love the laser sharp focus on sharing content. I usually hate feature bloat and maybee I should not ask for more and more features as I'm part of the problem otherwise. I have to install software. This is reasonable as the browser should not have access to my desktop anyway but I would appreciate if I could join a session through a browser. To be fair, I have never given this feedback to them, so I can't expect any fix of feature anyway about this. It can't be that bad for me then.

We do daily standup with two roles, a host and another person to show a running timer and notify the team about the time. Basically seeing multiple windows from multiple attendees, this is not possible without CoScreen.

1. Easy to see multiple windows from multiple attendees 2. Easy to control any shared window from any attendees 3. Fast to start up 4. Responsive to feedbacks 5. Not associated with China

1. High CPU usage 2. High power consumption 3. Unstable connection sometimes

Great outcomes using CoScreen for: - Team member onboarding - Pair programming - Code Review - Remote coffee breaks

CoScreen is simple to use and allows you to quick jump into any code review / sprint planning / UI.UX discussion / meeting. The ability to have multiple presenters at the same time is what makes it unique and provides really smooth interaction. The team is listening the users feedback and the update cycle is short bringing more and more features. (Video support. Audio input selection. Calendar Invites / Chrome Extension)

Due to its nature, CoScreen is an another tool to install, nothing complicated but you'll have to convince your teammates to install another collaboration tool. (Not too complicated once you've demoed the app)

CoScreen makes it ridiculously easy for multiple participants to share multiple windows concurrently, and for all users to be able to control those windows without first having to ask for permission. Very empowering as an engineer working as part of a distributed team to be able to jump on a session and not have to say "can you click that button and see what happens", but instead just be able to do it; the whole experience is very fluid. It's even better that an in-person experience in that respect.

There's the occasional glitch, but the CoScreen engineering team have been very responsive about addressing edge cases we've managed to come up with.

Best software for developers

The way I can interact with my colleagues to debug code and share screen has entirely been changed and updated with the help of CoScreen

I personally did not find any cons while using CoScreen for 6 months if I found any by mistake then the dev team deploys updates and they are vanished

Overall, it's a great collaboration tool. I love that it is super simple to get up and going, so anyone on the team can easily get a second set of eyes on their code.

My only complaint is it's not available on Linux (yet), so one of my team members misses out on all the fun.

Besides all of the features that CoScreen has, I would say the primary reason I use the software is that it brought my team together and gave us shared context while working remotely. Since COVID started, my team has been largely working individually, leading to a lot of missing contexts, lack of development, and collaborating on work. Since we've introduced CoScreen, much of those pain points have been removed. During our almost daily CoScreen session, every member of the team can show what they are working on, see how other people are approaching the same problem, and easily contribute across the board. I've never seen so much engagement between all members of the team at the same time, and I can see the massive improvement in progress and morale from us.

Some of the keyboard input can be a bit laggy.

CoScreen has implemented a new method for collaboratively working together. Everyone in a CoScreen session can share one or more windows at the same time and you can interact not only with your own but with everyone's. That allows true collaboration without being in the same room. It's fantastic.

Currently it's only available for macOS but the Windows version seems to be around the corner.

CoScreen enabled me to properly do remote pair programming. It works seamlessly and encourages all participants to actively participate in the pair programming sessions, instead of being a passive watcher.

It's minimalistic and gets out of the way letting you to focus on your goals. You can achieve everything it's meant for easily while never realizing which software you're using, it just feels natural.

There're some minor hickups that were easy for me to get around. Context menu options for the right click don't show up to the user when the other user opens it. I had some resolution problems before that are now solved.

Fantastic!! Solves a core problem in pair programming sessions. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] and Co. are awesome!

I like CoScreens ability to abstract the important windows in a shared work sessions, from the other background noise we typically find in screensharing. This helps for pair programming and debugging.

A few of the UI elements are a bit finicky, with respect to the toggles for sharing windows. CoScreen needs to support virtual workspaces as well.

It's been a pleasure from day one, hope more people start to adopt it so I can use it in more places.

Even with all the options available, given the choice I always choose CoScreen for collaborative work. It's very easy to set up, and fast.

That it hasn't been around longer, it would have been useful for the last several years.