When I first heard about Quicksilver, I assumed it was just another name for Silverware- so I brushed it off as something that wasn’t useful to me.

Figured I’d type this up so others don’t make the same mistake.

Feel free to correct me, folks- I’m not an authority on this. Some of you old timers might be able to give a lot more information and history, and I think we’d all welcome it.

Quicksilver and Silverware are *not* the same thing.

Quicksilver came out after Silverware. It inherited some things like stick gestures from Silverware.

Quicksilver is a full featured firmware (think betaflight or inav). It has both a standalone and web-based GUI. It supports F4 through F7/H7 mcu’s.

Quicksilver is focused on performance and simple setup- similar to KISS, and it is suitable for quads of any size. Quicksilver is still being actively developed.

Silverware is a lightweight firmware that was initially developed to allow people to flash toy-grade brushed whoops with a firmware that allowed it to fly like a hobby-grade quad (acro mode, the ability to tune pids, etc). Hobby flight controllers were eventually released that were built to take advantage of what Silverware can do, and brushless support was also added.

Silverware is suitable for open prop and ducted whoops, and supports F0 through F3(?) mcu’s (does it support f4?).
I don’t think Silverware is still being actively developed.

Silverware doesn’t have a GUI. It requires you to make any modifications you want in the code, and then you compile and flash the firmware. I believe BetaFPV has a bastardized version of silverware that does have a gui that they use in their Cetus quad and on a few fc’s- BetaFPV LiteSilverware.

Here’s an older YouTube video I found talking about the history of Silverware: