Moonlight

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About

Moonlight can stream games and other applications from another PC with Sunshine or GeForce Experience software installed. Features include: - Hardware accelerated video decoding with VAAPI, VDPAU, and NVDEC support - H.264, HEVC, and AV1 codec support - 7.1 surround sound audio support - 10-point multitouch support - Gamepad support with force feedback for up to 16 players - Support for both pointer capture (for games) and direct mouse control (for remote desktop) - Support for passing system-wide keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Tab to the host

Changelog

New features: Bugfixes: - Experimental YUV 4:4:4 support for improved text clarity during remote desktop usage - HDR is now supported with software decoding (requires GPU with Vulkan support) - Bitrate limit can now be increased to 500 Mbps - Audio decoding now uses 32-bit floating point format - Fixed incorrect color range when streaming with AV1 from a host with an AMD GPU - Updated community-contributed translations from Weblate

Additional information

Developer

Moonlight Game Streaming Team

License

GPL-3.0+

Category

To Classify

Size

7.4 MB

Homepage

https://moonlight-stream.org

Available via

Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store (stable build), AppImage, AUR (canary build), AUR (git build), AUR (bin build), AUR (git build), Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Gentoo, GitHub Releases

Catalog data as of

9/3/2026 (dataset snapshot date — per-app update dates aren't tracked yet)