Artemis

Artemis is a game-streaming client for Android by ClassicOldSong (Yukino Song), a fork of Moonlight. Its README introduces it as “Previously named Moonlight Noir” and “An open source client for Apollo/Sunshine”, which “will allow you to stream your collection of games from your Windows PC to your Android device, whether in your own home or over the internet.” The same developer makes Apollo, a fork of the Sunshine host for the PC: “A more seamless experience with virtual display will be Artemis paired with Apollo.”

What it adds to Moonlight

The README lists 30 additions. Among them:

• Controls: custom on-screen buttons that you can import and export, improved virtual gamepad skins with a free joystick, several mouse modes, trackpad tapping and scrolling, Joy-Con D-pad support and non-QWERTY keyboard layouts.
• Display: custom resolutions and bitrates, Fit, Fill or Stretch scaling, panning and zooming, portrait mode, rotating the screen in game and an external monitor mode.
• With Apollo only: a virtual display on the PC created at your device’s resolution and frame rate (Windows only, and off by default in Artemis), server commands, pairing by one-time code or link, and clipboard sync, which is experimental and off by default.
• Simplified performance statistics, and a game menu on the back button.

What you need

A Windows PC with a supported GPU running Apollo or Sunshine, on the same network or reachable over the internet. You pair the phone once with a PIN shown on the PC. Apollo also lets you decide which permissions each paired device gets; the first device gets full control.

What goes online

Artemis connects to your PC and finds PCs on the local network by multicast DNS. From the 20.2.6 code, two of Moonlight’s servers are also contacted, as in Moonlight itself:

• Moonlight’s connection test (android.conntest.moonlight-stream.org), when a stream fails or disconnects in a way that suggests blocked ports, when adding a PC by address fails, or when you run the network test.
• Moonlight’s STUN server, to learn your internet address after it finds a PC on your network; as in Moonlight, the code makes that request only while the phone is on a VPN.

There is no update check: the Software update entry only opens GitHub or Obtainium. Performance logging is off by default and, in the app’s words, “Offline only”; logs leave the phone only if you share them, by email to the developer’s address. Our scan found no trackers.

The permissions it asks for

Eleven: internet, the network and Wi-Fi state, multicast for finding PCs, keeping the device awake while streaming, vibration, notifications and reordering tasks for the external-display controls, two TV programme-guide permissions for its channel row on Android TV, and one that AndroidX adds for internal use.

About this file

• This is the developer’s own release of version 20.2.6, the non-root “game” build (artemis-nonRoot_game-release.apk) from the project’s GitHub page, signed with a key issued to Yukino Song of SudoMaker. No keystore or password appears in the repository’s history.
• About 14 months have passed since this release, so treat the project as slow-moving. Artemis isn’t on Google Play, F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid; the README suggests Obtainium for updates.
• The 12.1 MB file runs on Android 5.0 and later, on ARM and x86, 32- and 64-bit. It targets Android 14’s API level, an older target than current Moonlight.
• Artemis is licensed under the GPL-3.0. The screenshots in its repository still show Moonlight’s 2019 interface, so this page has none.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).

Recent releases on the project’s GitHub. We host and check only the newest one. Full changelog.