Comparison

MESHLE vs Fanatic LED

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MESHLE

Control your RGB, RGBW, and CCT LED strips with precision. Set hue, brightness, and create custom scenes or animations. Schedule lighting changes and enjoy sound visualization. Manage multiple strips and groups easily.

Highlights
  • Full control of 16 million colors
  • Customizable scenes and animations
  • Scheduled lighting changes (timers)
  • Sound visualization for music
  • Group management for multiple strips
  • Over-the-air firmware updates
Features
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Enjoy the simplicity of controlling your RGB-, RGBW-, CCT- or Single Color-LED strips. MESHLE app allows you to precisely set the hue and the brightness of one or multiple LED strips that are connected to MESHLE flex, MESHLE flex PLUS or MESHLE flex PRO Bluetooth LED Controller. Manage all your LED strips With MESHLE app you can easily organize all your LED strips into groups and name it the way you want. Full control of 16 million colors Set the hue and the brightness of any color you like. Choose your favorite from 16 million colors. Timers (At specified times or automatically at sunrise/sunset.) Configure the controller to enter any desired state (like on, off, specific color, animation etc.) at specified times or automatically at sunrise/ sunset based on your location. Set fade-in and fade-out time. Scenes Create your own scenes like sunset or sunrise by picking and saving specific colors and brightness of your LED strips. Change the ambience with a single tap to match your mood. Animations Enjoy lighting animation like ocean waves, candlelight, fire, polar lights and many more. Use TV-simulation to simulate presence at home when you are on a vacation. Sound Visualisation Listen to your favorite music with colorful sound visualization of your LED strips. Control all your lights with a single tap Apply light adjustments or scenes to the whole group that you have created. Control your lights simultaneously or individually. Firmware Updates Over The Air (OTA) MESHLE flex’s firmware can be easily updated via smartphone. In this way, new features and functions of the device can be made available at any time. MESHLE flex Bluetooth LED Controllers are available at https://meshle.com/product-category/controller/

About

Fanatic LED

Features
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Using your iOS device's built-in wireless communication, the Fanatic LED app allows you to choose and display images, animated GIFs, and/or scrolling or fixed text on your true-color Fanatic LED portable LED display! Features of Fanatic LED, all accessible using the app: 64x64 LED display 24-bit color (16.7 million colors) Displays scrolling and fixed text, images, animated GIFs, or image + text/animated GIF + text Images Photorealistic shading App automatically resizes loaded image to fit the display Text overlay available Text 11* fonts from which to choose 10 scrolling speeds Font can be any one of 16.7 million colors Text background can be changed to whatever color wanted Scroll at 0 degrees (normal), 90 degrees, 180 degrees, or 270 degrees * Each font supports small, medium, or large sizes Animations Play GIF animations any length, up to 1MB total size Text overlay for any animation Playback Features “Play Now” feature allows your entry to be played back as soon as you create it Additional Features, all on an entry-by-entry basis: Adjustable brightness (1 to 100) Display time of image (0.1 sec to 25.5 sec) Number of times to play animated GIF (1 to 50 or non-stop) Number of times to scroll message (1 to 50 or non-stop) Text scrolling speed (1 to 10) Font selection Font color (16.7 million colors) Text background color (16.7 million colors) Text direction (right-to-left, bounce from right, bounce from left, stopped) Text orientation (normal, 90 degrees, 180 degrees, 270 degrees) Text offset from top of display (0 to 60 rows) Text offset from left of display (0 to 60 columns) You can say or display anything you want! (TM)

Screenshots

MESHLE4 screens
Fanatic LED4 screens

Verdict

The call

MESHLE and Fanatic LED are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MESHLE ships an update fortnightly, Fanatic LED every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
MESHLE versus Fanatic LED: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMESHLEFanatic LED
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB110 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMESHLE GmbHBlue Corvus LLC

In-app purchases

None

MESHLE

No in-app purchases

None

Fanatic LED

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MESHLE free?
MESHLE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fanatic LED free?
Fanatic LED is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MESHLE or Fanatic LED have ads?
Neither MESHLE nor Fanatic LED shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MESHLE or Fanatic LED?
MESHLE ships an update fortnightly, and Fanatic LED every 2 weeks. Most recently, MESHLE was updated on November 2, 2026 and Fanatic LED on November 4, 2026.

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