Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

3recommend
0warn against
Jan 9, 2026first mention
May 18, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forsharing keyboard/mouse across computers

Why people recommend it

“Input leap[0] is a great open source KVM software”

“the current iteration, Input Leap, has worked for this for me for years now”

Caveats and dissent

No one in these comments warned against it.

Often compared with

All comments 4

“Input leap[0] is a great open source KVM software”

That's not even the most recent iteration, there's also Deskflow now which is maintained by the main Synergy developer and a very active independent dev. Works fine on Wayland afaik. Also has a wiki page with the history of all the forks! https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow

“the current iteration, Input Leap, has worked for this for me for years now”

“Similar to synergy/barrier/input-leap, but using USB gadget mode”

Threads where it came up

Data: input-leap.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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