It works via your keychain and your contacts, and the recipient gets a little notification to allow you to view their screen.
That’s it - no downloads, no login, no 20 minutes getting a Remote Desktop screen share set up.
Also, it only seems to work on a local network with hostnames.
It 100% works across the internet: it works with contact names, not just host names.
The answer is no, fyi
After you open it, press “Connections -> New” and start typing a contact name.
They get a little notification if they are online, and if they accept you have a seamless screen sharing experience ready to go. It’s honestly magic for the “my parents have an error message and don’t know what to do” situation.
I assume they have you in their contacts as well for it to work.
Glad to see your parents are tech savvy, but this reads like you live in a very different reality from mine.
Your parents don’t need to run the app at all. You need to run the app.
Unless you really do live in a different reality where you want your parents to help you out when you see an error message you don’t understand?