What is it?
Apollo turns your gaming PC into a streaming server: your games run on the PC, and you play them on your phone, tablet, TV or another computer. It is excellent software — but everything it can do lives in a web page full of options, and the parts you use every day are buried in it.
Apolo cPanel is a small Windows app that pulls those everyday parts into one clear window:
- pair a new device,
- see who is paired and decide exactly what each one is allowed to do,
- kick anyone out mid-session,
- watch every player's ping live while you play,
- keep one easy address pointed at your home connection, so friends can reach you from anywhere.
It is a remote control for Apollo. It does not stream anything itself, it does not replace Apollo, and it changes nothing about how Apollo works. Remove the panel tomorrow and Apollo carries on exactly as before.
You need three things
| What | Where it runs | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apollo — does the actual streaming | Your gaming PC (Windows) |
| 2 | Apolo cPanel — this app, the control panel | The same gaming PC |
| 3 | Moonlight (or Artemis on Android) — shows the picture | The phone, tablet, TV or PC you play from |
All three are free. Apollo and Moonlight are separate open-source projects by their own authors; Apolo cPanel is an independent app and is not affiliated with them.
What's in it
Pairing
Type the 4-digit PIN Moonlight shows and the device is in. Or generate a one-time passphrase link for recent Artemis clients. A device can be paired as one-time, which removes itself automatically after its first session ends — ideal for a friend who is visiting once.
Devices
Every paired device on one card: its name, what it may do, whether it is connected right now. Permissions are individual switches — see the screen, mouse, keyboard, controller, launch apps, clipboard — and changes reach Apollo immediately.
Guest protection
Mark your own devices with a ★. Everything else counts as a guest. One button drops every guest to zero permissions, and optional switches do it automatically after guests leave, and again when Windows restarts — so nothing is left open by accident. The panel also warns you when a guest still has permission to join but hasn't used it.
Live ping
Each player's real round-trip time while they play, with a small always-on-top pop-out you can leave in a corner of your screen. It can appear by itself when someone joins and tuck itself away when the last player leaves. With admin mode on, the panel reads Apollo's own stream timing, so it keeps working on mobile networks that block ping.
Remote access
Keeps a DNS name (DuckDNS, dynv6 or Cloudflare) pointed at your home connection in the background, and shows exactly which ports your router needs to forward — read from Apollo's own settings, so a custom port range just works.
Guides built in
The first time you open each tab, a short walkthrough dims the screen, points at what matters and explains it. Every tip is also written down in the Guide tab, and you can replay any walkthrough whenever you like.
English and Arabic
Switch at any time; the whole panel, including right-to-left layout, changes instantly with no restart.
Installing
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Download the setup
One zip file, about 83.2 MB, from the button on this page. Open it and you will find the setup inside: ApoloCPanel-Setup-1.7.0.exe.
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Run the setup
If Apollo isn't on the PC yet, the setup offers to install it first — Apollo is included in the download.
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Set Apollo up once
Open Apollo's web page and create its username and password. Apollo asks for this itself on first run.
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Sign in to the panel
Open Apolo cPanel and sign in on the Connection tab with that same username and password.
That's it. The panel can start with Windows and sit quietly in the notification area until you need it.
If Windows shows a warning
The first time you run the setup, Windows may show a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen. That is SmartScreen. It appears for any program whose developer has not yet bought a code-signing certificate — it is not a sign that anything harmful was found.
To continue, click More info, then Run anyway.
The download comes as a zip so your browser does not block it, but Windows checks the setup itself when it runs.
Would rather check first? Compare the setup file's fingerprint with the SHA-256 shown on this page. In PowerShell, in the folder where you extracted it, run:
Get-FileHash .\ApoloCPanel-Setup-1.7.0.exe
If the two values match, you have exactly the file I published, unchanged on its way to you.
Questions people ask
Is it free?
Yes — completely. No account, no licence key, no ads, nothing to buy, no trial. Free to use and free to share.
Does it send my data anywhere?
No. Settings stay in your Windows profile and your Apollo password is encrypted by Windows itself. The panel talks to the Apollo you point it at, and to your DNS provider only if you set up remote access.
Does it need administrator rights?
Only for two optional features: reading Apollo's stream timing for accurate ping, and the background DNS updater. You approve that once during setup and never see a prompt again. Everything else works without it.
Does it work if Apollo is on another PC?
Yes. Put that PC's address and Apollo port on the Connection tab and manage it from here.
Will it break Apollo?
No. It uses the same interface Apollo's own web page uses. Uninstalling the panel leaves Apollo untouched.
Which Windows?
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit.
Credits
Apollo, Sunshine and Moonlight belong to their own authors. Apolo cPanel is an independent project and is not endorsed by or affiliated with them.
The setup includes the official, unmodified Apollo 0.4.6 installer. Apollo is free software released under the GNU General Public License v3; its complete source code is available from the Apollo project on GitHub.
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