Ambient lighting & game immersion for Windows
Backbloom follows your screen in real time and spills its colors onto your walls through the LED strips and smart lights around you. Movies feel bigger. Games feel closer.
Works with every game. No mods, no plugins: it only watches the screen.
Compatible with
Two modes, one app
One switch at the top of the app. Each mode keeps its own feel, so your movie night never inherits your raid settings.
For movies, music and everyday use. Your room breathes with the picture, softly and smoothly.
Made for playing. The lights react faster, colors hit harder, and dark scenes stay dark.
See the difference
Drag across the picture to switch Backbloom on.
Features
Backbloom captures your screen on the GPU and maps each edge of the picture to the LEDs behind it. HDR games and films are tone mapped, so the light matches what you see instead of washing out. It never touches the game itself.
Draw your strips where they really are, on your walls, ceiling and desk, around your monitor or TV. Pick a ready-made shape or drag the bends yourself. Each LED repeats the part of the screen it faces.
Nine music effects react to whatever is playing on your PC, or to a microphone. Give the ceiling the beat while the screen strip follows the picture.
Add your games and Backbloom switches to Game mode when one starts. Profiles give strips other roles while a program runs: the whole screen on the ceiling in your racer, a calm color in your editor.
Stick a strip behind your screen, plug in the controller, and Backbloom's search finds WLED controllers on your network. Three short steps and the lights are on. White balance, calibration and a power limit wait under Setup when you want them.
The app
Everyday controls in view, fine-tuning tucked under More options. One click away in the tray.
Listens only on your PC until you turn on remote access. No account, and nothing about you is sent anywhere.
Lights, screen sync, music and pause one click away. Starts with Windows if you like.
MQTT with Home Assistant discovery: switch scenes and modes from your dashboards and automations.
Gear
We're testing hardware on our own setups. Each pick goes live once it passes, so you can skip the endless marketplace scrolling and the strips that don't sync.
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Roadmap
Also coming: keyboard, mouse and PC RGB, Govee lights, a phone remote, and Backbloom on macOS and Linux.
Closed beta
We're letting players in a wave at a time. Tell us about your setup and we'll send your invite, with pointers to gear that fits it.
A Windows 10 or 11 PC (Mac and Linux are planned) and something to light: usually an LED strip behind your screen with a small Wi-Fi controller (WLED) and a power supply, or smart bulbs and panels you already own. A ready-made controller needs no soldering, and if you tell us your setup in the beta form, we'll point you to gear that fits.
Philips Hue (through the Hue Bridge), Nanoleaf, LIFX, WiZ, Yeelight, WLED and USB backlight kits like Skydimo work today, and you can mix brands in one setup. Govee is planned, both for models with LAN control and for older Bluetooth ones. Keyboard, mouse and PC case RGB are planned too.
Backbloom never reads game memory, injects into a game or needs a mod. It only watches the screen and listens to the sound, the same way recording and streaming apps do. That's also why it works with any game.
Screen capture and scaling run on your graphics card; on our test PC, 168 LEDs at 60 frames a second took about 1.3% of one CPU core. In Game mode the screen is read at least 60 times a second and LED strips keep up; smart bulbs update more slowly (Hue about 25 times a second), so they're best for setting the room's mood. If a game ever stutters, the app keeps a performance record on your PC that you can send us.
It follows whatever your PC shows, HDR included, on a monitor or on a TV plugged into the PC. Some streaming apps block screen capture, so their videos can't be followed. A console only works if its picture goes through your PC.
Those drive one brand. Backbloom drives strips, bulbs and panels from many brands at once, lets you draw your strips where they really are in your room, and has a Game mode that turns on by itself when your game starts.
The beta is free. We'll announce pricing before the full release, and beta testers will hear first.
They're planned after game events, with no dates yet. Hold off on buying: we'll list tested gear for them once Backbloom supports it. Pick Haptics or Wind in the beta form so we know you're waiting.
