Artemis Android vs Moonlight Game Streaming

Artemis Android streams games from a Windows PC to an Android device at home or over the internet. It is an open-source client for Apollo and Sunshine, offered as a free Android download; the project provides an APK and recommends Obtainium for installation. Virtual controls include customizable buttons with import and export, gamepad skins, and a free joystick. Streaming settings cover custom resolutions and bitrates, video scaling, frame-rate locking fixes for some devices, and in-game pan and zoom. Mouse modes include normal, multitouch, touchpad, disabled, and local cursor options; non-QWERTY keyboard layouts and trackpad gestures are supported. Device features include external monitor and portrait modes, screen rotation, display-on-top for foldable phones, and Samsung DeX scrolling. Apollo is a self-hosted desktop host with hardware encoding for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs, plus optional software encoding.

Moonlight Game Streaming sends games from a gaming PC to supported devices for remote play. It is a free, open-source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream protocol; the listed plan costs nothing, with no subscriptions or paid versions with extra features. Clients are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Apple TV, ChromeOS, Steam Link, and Raspberry Pi. On a capable client, Moonlight can stream a full Windows desktop at up to 4K with HDR. Its PC client supports up to 120 FPS and can disable V-Sync for lower latency. Users can host their own gaming server using options such as port forwarding, IPv6, ZeroTier, Tailscale, and NordVPN Meshnet. Moonlight recommends Sunshine as a host; GeForce Experience is also listed as compatible, though NVIDIA is discontinuing its GameStream feature. Wolf can stream games and applications running in Docker containers. There is no pure web client because the protocol requires raw TCP and UDP sockets that browsers do not support. The project began as a 2013 hackathon project by Case Western Reserve University students.