Barrier Alternatives

Synergy

Synergy combines your desktop devices together in to one cohesive experience. It's software for sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on your desk. It works on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features:

• Mouse Sharing
• Keyboard Sharing
• Share Clipboard
• Cross-platform
• Keyboard Sharing
• Mouse Sharing
• Two-way sharing

Mouse without Borders

Mouse Without Borders allows you to reach across your PC's as if they were part of one single desktop. Using Mouse Without Borders you can move your mouse between the 3 or more screens, even though one of them is attached to a different PC from the other two. You can also move files between the 2 computers simply by dragging them from one desktop to another.

Features:

• Mouse Sharing
• Keyboard Sharing
• Support for Multiple Monitors
• 32-bit support
• Automatic Connection
• Share Clipboard
• Drag n drop
• Media button support
• Mouse Sharing
• Universal clipboard

ShareMouse

Mouse and Keyboard Sharing to control a Windows or Mac PC with the mouse and keyboard of any other PC.

Features:

• Automatic display layout switcher
• Portable edition
• Screensaver synchronization
• Share Clipboard
• Drag and drop feature
• Drag and drop of files and text
• Drag and Drop of text and bitmaps
• Dual-monitor support
• Sync with Fantastical
• Keyboard Sharing
• Mouse Sharing
• Plug and play
• Portable
• Unwanted computer switch prevention

Input Director

Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves regularly sliding from one system to the other. With Input Director, you can share a single keyboard/mouse across a set of computers. Computers with multiple monitors are fully supported.

Features:

• Create Macro
• Gaming-focused
• Keyboard Sharing
• Mouse Sharing
• Share your screen

Multiplicity

Multiplicity enables a user to control multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse. Multiplicity is installed on networked PCs to create a virtual KVM switch with two modes of operation. In Seamless keyboard and mouse mode the mouse cursor can be freely moved across multiple PCs each with their own monitors.

Features:

• Keyboard Sharing
• Share Clipboard
• Mouse Sharing
• Support for Multiple Monitors
• Remote desktop
• Remote Support
• Virtual KVM Switch
• Virtualization

x2vnc (win2vnc)

This program will let you use two screens on two different computers as if they were connected to the same computer. The program will open a small (one pixel wide) window on the edge of your screen. Moving the pointer into this window will trigger the program to take over your mouse and send mouse movements and keystrokes though the RFB protocol to a VNC server running on another machine.

Features:

• Support for Multiple Monitors
• VNC Viewer

across

Across makes a Bluetooth equipped PC or Mac work as a standard Bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo. Thus, you can seamlessly and wirelessly control all your smart devices including computer, smartphone and tablet PC with the computer’s keyboard and mouse (touchpad). Note: While keyboard works well on an iOS device (iPhone/iPad), iOS does not support a mouse. Therefore, mouse operation does not work on an iPhone or iPad.

Features:

• Keyboard Sharing
• Mouse Sharing
• Photographic filters

ShareKM

Control your Droid from your desktop with MOUSE and KEYBOARD. ShareKM is a very handy tool for Android that lets you share your computer's Mouse, Keyboard and Clipboard. You can download PC app at http://goo.gl/khfEb . # Features list: + Control Droid with desktop Keyboard and Mouse. + Multi-touch: Drag mouse while pressing ctrl key. + Copy a block of text from your computer, paste it on your Droid. + Copy some text from your Droid, paste it back to your computer.

Features:

• Support for Android Things
• Keyboard Sharing
• MultiTouch
• Share your screen

Win2VNC

If you have two or more computers on your desk and you are tired of having several keyboards and mice around to control them, this is the program for you. While running this program, you can move the mouse pointer beyond the right or left edge of your primary display and the pointer will appear on the other computer screen. If you have ever used x2x or a computer with two graphics cards, you know what I am talking about.

Features:

• Screen Extension
• Mouse Sharing

Mouse Broadcaster

Mouse Broadcaster is used to duplicate mouse and keyboard actions to multiple PCs on a network. Mouse Broadcaster comes in two parts - Master and Minion. The master controls the minions. Basically, right and left mouse clicks and movements are replicated from the master to the minion computers as well as key strokes including basic key combos. This program would typically be used to update an entire lab of computers all at once which require user input.