Ableton
Push 2 display and RGB pads
Paint every pixel. Every device.
The cross-platform engine for gloriously excessive RGB. Your PC, your smart lights, your whole room, all painted from one canvas and perfectly in sync.
[01]Hardware
Hardware support
PC motherboards, keyboards, mice, cases, fans, smart bulbs, and your whole Home Assistant install. Native drivers across Linux, macOS, and Windows, every protocol decoded.
ASUS
Motherboards, ROG, AURA-compatible
Corsair
Lighting Node, Link, Keyboards, Mice
Govee
Wi-Fi UDPGovee
RGBIC strips, light bars, TV backlight, outdoor lights
Home Assistant
REST + WebSocketHome Assistant
Any HA light entity, paint it from one canvas
Lian Li
USB HIDLian Li
UNI Hub SL/AL, TL fans, L-Connect controllers
Nanoleaf
UDP StreamNanoleaf
Shapes, Canvas, Lines, Elements panels
Nollie
USB HIDNollie
Nollie 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, Matrix, and TT controllers
Philips Hue
DTLS EntertainmentPhilips Hue
Hue Bridge, bulbs, strips, Play bars
PrismRGB
Prism 8, Prism S, Prism Mini
QMK
Custom keyboards with per-key RGB
Razer
Huntsman V2, Basilisk V3, Blade, Seiren
WLED
LED strips, matrices, any WLED device
Transport Layer
USB HID
Direct hardware control on Linux, macOS, and Windows
UDP / DDP
WLED strips and matrices via mDNS discovery
DTLS Entertainment
Hue Bridge realtime streaming under 20ms
UDP Stream
Nanoleaf realtime panel streaming
SMBus / I2C
Motherboard ARGB via kernel driver
MIDI
Pad and key lighting for music controllers
[02]Effects
Live in your browser
43 effects ship preloaded. These are the loudest. Hover any tile to preview it live, tap to fill the screen. Audio reactives can listen to your mic.
What you see here is the actual engine, the same WebGL and Canvas rendering that runs on your devices. Read the effect source or spin up the SDK and write your own.
[03]Capabilities
One canvas, every light
One engine to orchestrate every RGB device, from your PC to your whole house. Powered by web standards, driven by Rust.
One App, Every Device
Motherboards, keyboards, mice, cases, fans, LED strips, and network zones. Every RGB device you own routes through one unified pipeline.
Web-Native Effects
Write effects in HTML Canvas, WebGL, or pure GLSL. An embedded Servo browser renders them and samples onto your physical LEDs at 60fps.
Audio-Reactive
Full FFT analysis with beat detection and BPM tracking. Bass, mid, treble. Your lights move to your music in real time.
Spatial Mapping
Drag-and-drop layout editor maps your physical desk to a virtual canvas. Position devices with rotation and scaling.
Cross-Platform
Linux, macOS, Windows. One codebase, three operating systems. Native HID, SMBus, UDP, and MIDI transports on all of them.
Multi-Zone Sync
One canvas, every corner of your world. PC zones, desk strips, Hue, Nanoleaf, and WLED all resampled from the same render loop in perfect sync.
[04]Use cases
Made for your setup
Gaming setups, broadcast studios, music rigs, and physical spaces. One engine, four flavors of pro work.
Gamers
Per-title profiles. Audio reactive. Lighting for the boss fight.
- Per-game profiles auto-swap on app focus
- Audio FFT reactive across keyboard, fans, and strips
- Health and cooldown overlays from game state
- Whole-room mood lighting for solo and co-op nights
Streamers & creators
Scene-aware lighting that follows your show.
- OBS scene triggers swap the lighting in lockstep
- Key lights flash on alerts, donations, and raids
- Brand palette locked across desk, room, and overlay
- Screen capture ambilight for immersive recordings
Music producers
MIDI, DAW, and stage on one canvas.
- Ableton Push 2 and Launchpad as first-class devices
- MIDI mapped controls across keyboards and strips
- Audio reactive across the studio, frame-locked to your DAW
- Stage rigs driven from the same canvas as the booth
Installations
A spatial lighting console that runs on a laptop.
- Hue Entertainment, Nanoleaf, WLED, and DDP on one engine
- Whole-space orchestration under 20ms latency
- Scene cues triggered from MIDI, network, or schedule
- Open source and vendor neutral, no per-fixture license
[05]Experience
Five Ways In
Five first-class UIs, all talking to the same Hypercolor app. Work the way you want.
Control Surface1440x900
Polished
Web UI
Visual command center with live performance telemetry, drag-and-drop layouts, spatial mapping, and full effect control.
Leptos · WASM · Tailwind
Maturing
Terminal UI
Full terminal instrument with live canvas preview rendered inside your terminal via Kitty and Sixel protocols.
Ratatui · Crossterm
Stable
CLI
Thirteen subcommands for scripting and automation. Effects, devices, scenes, layouts, profiles, diagnostics.
clap · hypercolor
Stable
System Tray
Always-on menu bar presence. Quick effect switching, brightness, and profile toggles without leaving your desktop.
tray-icon · native
Early
Desktop
Native window wrapper for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Works offline with the local app, webview under the hood.
Tauri 2 · webview
[06]Install
Get started
Up and running in minutes. Pick your install path.
$cargo install hypercolorThen run it
hypercolor-daemonStart the apphypercolor effects listBrowse effectshypercolor effects activate borealisApply an effectExplore the full documentation, read the open API, or browse the effect SDK.
[07]Early Access
Hypercolor+
Cloud sync. Remote control. A seat in the first beta wave. Drop your email below.
Under the hood
For the nerds!Multi-zone
One canvas, every corner of your world. The render loop resamples every zone (PC, desk, room, house) from the same source frame in under 20ms. Hue Entertainment, Nanoleaf streaming, WLED DDP, USB HID, SMBus, and MIDI all route through one engine, frame synced.
SparkleFlinger
Deadline-driven compositor that owns the frame clock. Effects, screen capture, and Servo each run at their own cadence. SparkleFlinger latches the newest ready surface from every producer, composites with gamma-aware blend modes on CPU or GPU, and hands an immutable frame to spatial sampling.
Open API
REST, WebSocket, and MCP on :9420. Always open, always public, always documented. The CLI, web UI, and TUI all route through the same surface every effect uses. Build dashboards, scene cues, and AI agents on top with no special access. Open source and version pinned.
Developer SDK
Effects are HTML pages. Write them in pure GLSL, WebGL, Canvas 2D, or full TypeScript. The SDK auto-generates controls from effect metadata, supports the LightScript API, and ships with a Bun build pipeline. Native Rust effects supported via the EffectRenderer trait.