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Pairio vs CoScreen
CoScreen is gone. Here's where to land.

Datadog shut CoScreen down on 31 July 2026. Pairio does the same job — multi-user screen sharing where everyone can drive.

Migration map

Everything you used CoScreen for,
and where it lands.

CoScreen and Pairio are the same shape of tool: a Mac app for working on one screen together, not a meeting product with screen sharing bolted on. Most of the switch is muscle memory.

Was Multi-user simultaneous control: Now Up to 3 people in a session, and everyone can drive. Control is permission-based — you grant it and revoke it whenever you like.
Was Share individual windows, keep the rest private: Now Hide any app from the shared screen. Your inbox, your messages and your password manager stay yours.
Was Built-in video and audio calls: Now Built-in voice, one click to start. No meeting link, no lobby, no separate call app.
Was Shared terminal: Now No separate collaborative terminal. You share the terminal window like any other, and hand over the keyboard.
Was macOS: Now macOS Sequoia (15.0) or later. CoScreen never shipped Windows or Linux either, so this is the same trade you already made.

The shared terminal is the one thing that does not come across as its own feature. Everything else you can do on day one.

A pattern

Pairing tools die when they are
somebody else’s side feature.

This is the third time in a decade that a tool developers loved has been switched off by the company that bought it or bundled it. The pattern is not bad luck. Pairing is never the priority when it is a line item inside something bigger.

2015

Screenhero

Acquired by Slack, folded into Slack calls, then wound down. Its founders eventually rebuilt it from scratch as a separate product.

2026

CoScreen

Acquired by Datadog in 2022 and shut down on 31 July 2026. The product is no longer accessible and the documentation is already gone.

2027

Code With Me

Bundled into JetBrains IDEs, now unbundled and sunsetting. New sales and renewals have stopped, and the relays are switched off in Q1 2027.

Pairio is not a feature of something bigger. Pairing is the entire product, and the only thing we have to sell.

Feature comparison: Pairio versus CoScreen
Feature	Pairio	CoScreen
More than two people in a session
Everyone can drive at once
Share some windows, hide the rest
Built-in voice chat
Free plan
Shared collaborative terminal
Hosted in the EU
Still running

Pairio vs CoScreen: common questions.

What happened to CoScreen?

Datadog acquired CoScreen in 2022 and shut the service down on 31 July 2026. It is no longer accessible, and the documentation has already been taken down. If you are reading this, you are probably looking for somewhere to move a team that has lost its pairing tool.

What is the best CoScreen alternative?

Pairio is the closest match in shape: a native Mac app for working on one screen together, with more than two people in a session, simultaneous control so everyone can drive, per-app privacy, and built-in voice. It is not a meeting tool with screen sharing attached, which is the category CoScreen deliberately sat outside of too.

Does Pairio support more than two people?

Yes. A session holds up to three people, so the small-group work CoScreen was good at — onboarding a new engineer, or a third pair of eyes on an incident — carries over.

Can several people control the screen at once?

Yes. Remote control is permission-based: you grant access and revoke it whenever you want, and while it is active the others in the call use their own keyboard and mouse on your screen, including keyboard shortcuts. This was CoScreen's signature feature and it is not something you have to give up.

Does Pairio have a shared terminal like CoScreen did?

Not as a separate feature. CoScreen shipped a dedicated collaborative terminal; Pairio does not. In practice you share the terminal window like anything else on your screen and hand over the keyboard, which covers running commands together — but if the dedicated collaborative CLI was the reason you used CoScreen, this is the one thing that does not transfer cleanly.

Does Pairio work on Windows or Linux?

No. Pairio is a native Mac app and requires macOS Sequoia (15.0) or later. CoScreen was also macOS-only, with Windows and Linux never past a waitlist, so for most teams moving across this is not a new constraint.

Is there a free CoScreen alternative?

Pairio's free plan covers 10 hours of pairing every month with every feature included — screen sharing, drawing, remote control and built-in voice. No card required. Teammates who pair more than that upgrade to Pro at $15/month.

Where is Pairio hosted?

Pairio is hosted in the European Union and is GDPR-compliant by design. Datadog, which owned CoScreen, is a US company. If your data-residency review was the awkward part of adopting CoScreen, it is a shorter conversation this time.

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