Meeting apps are built for conversation first. Pairing tools are tuned for readable tiny fonts, snappy control, and quick swaps, so you stay in flow instead of narrating cursor moves. Most of the meetings apps do offer screen sharing (and Zoom can hand control to another person), but they don’t center the fast, co-equal, developer workflow in the way pairing-first tools do.
Under the hood: many pairing apps target sub-100 ms interaction because after this threshold control does not feel local (and based on Apple’s Human Interaction guides). Hopp has public write-ups of how they measure and drive that latency down with WebRTC.
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Live Share (or anything equivalent) is great inside the editor; editing, debugging, and a shared terminal. Most real sessions spill outside the IDE: investigating a failing build, running requests inside Bruno desktop client, stepping through a Grafana dashboard, poking at AWS Console settings, jotting notes in a spec. That’s where whole-desktop, shared-control pairing tools shine.
Here is how to call someone in Hopp. Not any link sharing, just one click and you can start pairing.
This post lives on Bruno’s blog, so here’s the tiny why from us: we prefer Hopp for remote pairing. The developer-first ergonomics line up with how our audience works. Also Hopp is open-source, as Bruno, and we support building software in public!
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Here is a demo of remote controlling our teammates' computers. We can write code, and navigate in Grafana dashboards, with native gesture support.
If you’ve only tried pairing over a standard meeting app, run your next ticket in Hopp or Tuple or CoScreen. The difference shows up in minutes, sharper text, tighter loops, and two brains moving like one.