Drovio Help Center

Sign up with your email address & password

<p>${color}[#676767](<strong>Sign up using your email address to share your screen with the Drovio app on <a href="https://web.drovio.com/signup">your account page</a>.</strong>)</p> <p>|| The first time you sign up using your email address, you will be asked to verify it before you can use the Drovio app or manage your account on <a href="https://web.drovio.com/signup">the website</a>. You should receive an email with a link to verify it, make sure to check your spam inbox!</p> <h3 id="fromthedrovioapp&quo

Invite someone to an ongoing session

<p>${color}[#676767](<strong>As the presenter who launched the session or the administrator of the session you can add new participants to an ongoing session at any time.</strong>) </p> <h3 id="howtoinvitesomeonetoanongoingsession">How to invite someone to an ongoing session?</h3> <h6 id="1inviteacontactfromyourcontactlist">1. Invite a contact from your contact list.</h6> <ol> <li>Open the app</li> <li>Click on <strong>Go to contacts</strong></li> <li><strong>Invite</str

What is Drovio?

<p>Drovio is a <strong>pair programming</strong> and <strong>team collaboration</strong> tool that lets you invite people on your screen. You're all in control and participants can interact with your apps as if you were all at the same desk. In fact, it's way better than being at the same desk: each participant <strong>get a mouse cursor</strong>, making driver/navigator switch a breeze and offering a smooth collaborative experience.</p> <p>With <strong>crisp voice chat</strong> and built-in <strong>low latency</strong&

My Jetbrains IDE becomes unresponsive after some time

<p>${color}[#676767](<strong>This behavior refers to a well-known <a href="https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-563">bug</a> in the JetBrains IDEs including IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm, PHPStorm, etc. that occurs when working through remote access apps such as Drovio.</strong>)</p> <h3 id="whattodo">What to do?</h3> <p>Make sure you are on version 3.2.4+. This version includes a fix for certain of the JetBrains IDEs issues that could positively impact the experience when remote collaborating through the Drovio App.&l

My session won't start and/or I see a connection timeout

<p>${color}[#676767](<strong>When joining someone's screen, Drovio prompts you with the error "the connection has timed out". In this article, you will find useful information about this issue.</strong>)</p> <h3 id="whydoigetthiserrorandhowtofixit">Why do I get this error and how to fix it?</h3> <p>This error can be caused by a wide variety of factors, all generally related to your network. It can just be a temporary network interruption or a more specific issue concerning your network configuration. </p> <h4 id="youar

Mac users: set up your permissions

<p>${color}[#676767](<strong>When you launch the Drovio app for the first time on macOS, you will be asked to grant some app permissions to enable most of its functionalities.</strong>)</p> <h3 id="whatarethoseapppermissions">What are those app permissions?</h3> <p>App permissions on macOS manage what an app can do with your computer. For example, when an app wants to access your microphone or capture your screen, macOS asks you to grant the corresponding permissions.</p> <h3 id="whatpermissionsdoesthedrovioappneed">What