HYTE Nexus vs sharkfin
HYTE Nexus
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| Figure | HYTE Nexus | sharkfin |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Keyboard and Mouse Customization Software | 8.7 (#8) | 8.4 (#18) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Lighting | Its GPU-rendered lighting engine offers more than 75 shader effects plus screen, audio, and game sync features. | Users can adjust the keyboard's built-in lighting effects and paint individual keys with custom colours. |
| Macro support | Yes | Yes |
| Onboard device memory | Yes | Yes |
| Platforms | The desktop app supports 64-bit Windows 10 and 11, Apple Silicon Macs, and x86-64 Linux; phone remote access works through iOS and Android apps. | Downloads are offered for Linux, macOS and Windows, and a browser version runs in Chrome, Edge or another Chromium browser; Firefox and Safari cannot open the keyboard. |
| Privacy | The app can work fully offline without an account; optional anonymous telemetry can be disabled in settings. | The browser build makes no requests of its own after loading, the desktop app makes no network requests, and the app has no account, analytics or cookies. |
| Support | Support is provided through setup and troubleshooting documentation, an FAQ, and Discord where users can contact the community and Nexus team. | Bugs and questions go through GitHub issues, and users can submit a board report with a photo to help add keyboard support. |
| Supported operating systems | cross-platform | cross-platform |
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In their own words
HYTE Nexus
HYTE Nexus brings PC monitoring, cooling controls, RGB lighting and panel displays together in one app. It shows live CPU, GPU, RAM, network, disk, fan and temperature readings, with historical sensor graphs. Users can build fan and pump curves from temperature sensors or select Silent, Balanced or Turbo presets. Its GPU-rendered lighting engine includes more than 75 shader effects, plus screen, audio and game synchronization. Nexus also checks storage, memory, GPU and cooling health, and records per-game frame-rate history on Windows. A phone can pair with a PC by QR code for remote monitoring, lighting and controls; the relay connection is end-to-end encrypted. The app can work offline without an account, and optional anonymous telemetry can be disabled. Profile sync is optional and stores up to five profiles of 512 KB each. Nexus supports selected devices through first-party drivers and broader third-party RGB support through a bundled headless OpenRGB build. It is free, open source under AGPL-3.0, and available for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows, with some platform exclusions.