OpenRGB
One app for the lighting on all your gear, without Razer, Corsair, MSI or ASUS software.
Our verdict
OpenRGB is the reason a lot of people can switch without their PC turning into a rainbow they cannot control. It talks to the lighting in hundreds of devices directly, so one app covers the motherboard, the graphics card, the memory sticks, the keyboard and the case fans at once.
Look your gear up on the supported devices list before you rely on it. Each entry is marked as fully supported, partly supported or problematic, and that mark is the honest picture. The project is also blunt about the risk: these protocols were worked out by reverse engineering, and a small number of devices have been damaged by lighting software in the past.
It replaces the lighting part of Razer Synapse, Corsair iCUE or MSI Mystic Light and nothing else. Macros, button assignments and mouse settings are a separate job, and for some mice Piper handles those.
What's good
- Covers hundreds of devices from Razer, Corsair, MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, Logitech and others in one window
- Handles motherboards, graphics cards, memory, keyboards, mice, fans and light strips
- Saves lighting profiles you can switch between
- Free, with no account and no background service phoning home
What to know first
- The lighting controls are reverse engineered rather than supplied by the makers, and the project warns that hardware has been damaged in the past
- Your exact model may be missing, partly supported or listed as problematic, so check the device list first
- The layout is a technical grid of zones and LEDs, not the pretty preview the maker's own app gives you
- It does lighting only. Macros, button mapping and DPI settings are somewhere else
The details
- Cost
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (GPL-2.0-or-later)
- How you install it
- App store (Flatpak), AppImage download, Built-in app store
Windows apps it can replace
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