# 1.3 – What's the difference

SparkView is quite different compared with other similar solutions:
- It is designed to be a replacement of native client, not a complementary solution.
- It is designed for speed. It’s even faster than our Java applet.
- It is feature rich, not feature less compared with native clients.
- SparkView only features:
  - RemoteApp (not start program on connection)
  - Session Recording/Playback
  - Session Shadowing
  - Hyper-V console connection
  - Network Level Authentication
  - Current Windows and Windows Server versions with touch remoting support
  - XRDP (Linux) support
  - RD Web Access Portal Integration
  - OpenID integration
  - Support both PostScript and PCL printers.
  - Support more audio encodings. 80% less bandwidth usage (when playing audio) compared with other HTML5 solutions.
  - Client side IME support. You can use client side IME directly (Microsoft RDC doesn't support client side IME).