Pipplee vs Maestro

Pipplee is the easiest way to control a WLED 2D LED matrix from your iPhone. Play animations, turn music into a light show, draw pixel art, scroll text, run arcade games and show live weather on your LED panel - no coding, no config files. WORKS WITH ANY WLED MATRIX 16x16, 32x32, 8x32, 24x16 or a custom layout - if WLED supports your 2D matrix, Pipplee fits content to it automatically. You need an ESP32 running WLED (ESP8266 and ESP32-C3 are not supported). GIF and image playback needs WLED 16.0.0 or newer. MUSIC VISUALIZER • Your matrix dances to whatever is playing, using your iPhone's microphone • 13 visualizers: Spectrum Bars, Mirror, Waveform, Bass Fire, Waterfall, Starburst, Radial and more • Colour gradients or a single colour, plus a sensitivity control • Smart beat detection that ignores steady background noise like fans • Music playing on your iPhone keeps playing while it listens • Keep it running in the background, or keep your screen on while it plays • Sound is analysed on your iPhone - nothing is recorded or sent anywhere ANIMATIONS & PIXEL ART • 1000+ ready-made animations and pixel art, searchable by category • Live pixel editor with instant preview on your LEDs • Upload your own GIFs and images • AI pixel art: describe it and Pipplee generates it for your matrix • 200+ built-in WLED effects with animated previews TEXT, CLOCK & LIVE INFO • Scrolling text with gradients, backgrounds and effects • Digital clock faces with animated backgrounds • Live local weather that updates on its own • Live sports scores, stock prices and a game-night scoreboard PLAY ARCADE GAMES ON YOUR LED MATRIX Snake, Blocks, Pong, Breakout, Flappy Bird, Space Invaders and Racing - play on your iPhone and watch it run on your LED matrix. CAMERA EFFECTS • Body Glow: your silhouette lights up on the matrix using your iPhone camera AUTOMATE EVERYTHING • Favorites and playlists for hands-free animation cycling • Schedule presets by time of day • Smart-home friendly: send messages to your matrix from your own scripts with the Pipplee API • Built-in WLED settings, so you never leave the app WHO IS PIPPLEE FOR? WLED users with an LED matrix, makers and DIY electronics fans, pixel artists, gamers, music lovers, and anyone who wants a glowing display for a desk, bedroom, game room or shop window. GET STARTED IN MINUTES 1. Flash WLED on an ESP32 and set up your LED matrix in 2D mode. 2. Connect your iPhone to the same Wi-Fi network. 3. Open Pipplee, scan for devices and pick your matrix - you're playing in seconds. SIMPLE PRICING Free to try with limited plays. Unlock every feature with a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime license. Each license covers one physical WLED device (one controller), and everyone in your home can use it. If you replace your controller, the new one needs its own license. The yearly subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Questions? pippleeapp@gmail.com | pipplee.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pipplee.com/privacy/

Drop in a song. Maestro listens to it the way a choreographer would, then writes a complete Tesla light show around what it hears: the beats, the key, the builds, the drops, the solos, even the quiet moments that deserve darkness. No AI. Just signal processing. Maestro measures your music right on your iPhone or iPad and choreographs from the math. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is generated by a model, and the same song with the same seed always produces the identical show. Do not like a take? Reroll it. BUILT FOR THE ACTUAL HARDWARE Every Tesla lamp has a personality, and Maestro knows all of them. Headlights that ramp, signatures that snap, the Cybertruck's pixel light bars, interior ambient strips, and the closures: mirrors that fold on the hush, windows that dance, falcon doors that open for the finale, a charge port that saves its rainbow for the last chorus. Command budgets and thermal limits are respected so the car never refuses your show. SEE IT BEFORE THE DRIVEWAY DOES A live preview stage plays your show on Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and Cybertruck, including pre-refresh 3 and Y bodies with their real lamp responses. Build a fleet of up to 15 of each, arrange rows or a circle, and watch the light wash between cars. Presentation mode turns your iPad into the party screen. ONE LIBRARY, EVERY DEVICE Your shows sync through iCloud between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Choreograph on the couch, fine-tune in the Sequence Editor on your Mac, and export from whichever device is closest to the car. FROM SONG TO STREET Export hands the exact two files the car wants, validated against Tesla's own rules, to the share sheet: save them straight to a USB drive in the Files app, or AirDrop them to your Mac. Plug the drive into the car, open Toybox, schedule the show. Maestro also renders share-ready videos, including a vertical cut sized for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. TRY IT FREE A finished sample show is included, and your first two exported shows are free. One purchase unlocks unlimited shows and unlimited exports on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and the Sequence Editor on the Mac. No subscription. Yours forever, on all your devices. Available in English, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Norwegian. Maestro is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tesla, Inc. Tesla, Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and Cybertruck are trademarks of Tesla, Inc. A Tesla vehicle with light show support and a USB drive are required to play shows on a car.