betaflight Drones & UAV Software
Open Source Flight Controller Firmware
11,657GitHub stars
4,093Forks
CMain language
GPL-3.0Licence
2026-10-13Last commit
168Open issues
What betaflight does
Open Source Flight Controller Firmware It is a free, open-source project hosted at betaflight/betaflight and released under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Download and install
- Get the files. Use Download releases above if the maintainers publish binaries, otherwise grab the source ZIP or
git clone https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight.git. - Read the README. Build and runtime requirements differ per platform — the repo README is the authoritative guide.
- Check the licence. GPL-3.0 terms apply to redistribution and commercial use.
- Join the community. Issues, discussions and pull requests live in the repository — that is where bugs get fixed.
Project snapshot
- Repositorybetaflight/betaflight
- Stars11,657
- Forks4,093
- LanguageC
- LicenceGPL-3.0
- Last update2026-10-13
- Topicsbetaflightcleanflightflight-controllerhacktoberfest
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