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Sunshine

GameStream host for Moonlight.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: hardware acceleration, web interface and self-hosting on your own server.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Offering low latency, cloud gaming server capabilities with support for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs for hardware encoding.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “A web UI is provided to allow configuration, and client pairing, from your favorite web browser.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Sunshine is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

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. NOTE: Sunshine requires additional installation steps on Flatpak. Run flatpak run --command=additional-install.sh dev.lizardbyte.app.Sunshine NOTE: Sunshine uses a self-signed certificate. The web browser will report it as not secure, but it is safe.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

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  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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