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Sunshine

Sunshine is a free, open-source remote desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. It has 42,731 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0 license, and people use it instead of Parsec and NVIDIA GameStream.

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About Sunshine

Sunshine Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Offering low-latency, cloud gaming server capabilities with support for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs for hardware encoding. Software encoding is also available. You can connect to Sunshine from any Moonlight client on a variety of devices. A web UI is provided to allow configuration, and client pairing, from your favorite web browser. Pair from the local server or any mobile device.

Install Sunshine

Package names found in the project's README. Each links to its package page so you can check the publisher first.

Flathub (Linux)
flatpak install flathub dev.lizardbyte.app.Sunshine

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Replaces

Commercial software people commonly use Sunshine instead of.

  • Parsec
  • NVIDIA GameStream

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FAQ

Sunshine FAQ

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Is Sunshine free and open source?

Yes. Sunshine's source code is public on GitHub under the GPL-3.0 license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free, so you can use, copy and change it for free.

How do I install Sunshine?

Flathub: flatpak install flathub dev.lizardbyte.app.Sunshine. The commands are on this page. Installers are also on its GitHub Releases page (latest: v2026.914.233613).

Can Sunshine replace Parsec?

Sunshine is commonly used as a free alternative to Parsec and NVIDIA GameStream. Features differ, so check that it opens the file formats and covers the workflows you rely on before switching.