FastLED VS FastLED-esp32

Compare FastLED vs FastLED-esp32 and see what are their differences.

FastLED

The FastLED library for colored LED animation on Arduino. Please direct questions/requests for help to the FastLED Reddit community: http://fastled.io/r We'd like to use github "issues" just for tracking library bugs / enhancements. (by FastLED)

FastLED-esp32

Parallel outputs for esp32 (by eshkrab)
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FastLED FastLED-esp32
344 1
6,195 43
1.0% -
7.7 0.0
13 days ago over 6 years ago
C++ C++
MIT License MIT License
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FastLED

Posts with mentions or reviews of FastLED. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

FastLED-esp32

Posts with mentions or reviews of FastLED-esp32. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FastLED and FastLED-esp32 you can also consider the following projects:

WLED - Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi!

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

I2SClocklessLedDriver

OctoWS2811 - Control thousands of WS2811/2812 LEDs at video refresh speeds

FastLED_NeoMatrix - Adafruit GFX compatible library for NeoPixel based Matrices using FastLED library

esp32-fastled-webserver - Work in progress ESP32 port of https://github.com/jasoncoon/esp8266-fastled-webserver

FastLED_examples - FastLED example code, tests, demos, etc

NeoPixelBus - An Arduino NeoPixel support library supporting a large variety of individually addressable LEDs. Please refer to the Wiki for more details. Please use the GitHub Discussions to ask questions as the GitHub Issues feature is used for bug tracking.

esp32-fastled-webserver - Work in progress ESP32 port of https://github.com/jasoncoon/esp8266-fastled-webserver

WS2812Serial - Non-Blocking WS2812 LED Library

Striptease - Sexy, audio-responsive effects on LED strips.

FastNoise - Fast Portable Noise Library - C# C++ C Java HLSL GLSL JavaScript Rust Go