Alternatives to vengi
Voxel art suite with an editor, a format converter and a thumbnailer. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
vengi
Voxel art suite with an editor, a format converter and a thumbnailer.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as vengi.
MagicaVoxel
A free voxel editor and path-traced renderer that makes good-looking blocky art with almost no learning curve.
MagicaVoxel is closed source for Windows and macOS only, with a built-in GPU path tracer and a more polished editor, but no release since 2021.
Goxel
Create 3D artwork from colored voxel blocks.
Goxel is a free, open-source GPL-3.0 voxel editor on Windows, macOS and Linux with layers and several export formats, but lacks vengi's broad format converter.
VoxelShop
Voxel editor for building blocky models and exporting them for games and rendering.
VoxelShop is an open-source Apache-2.0 voxel editor that exports to Collada, OBJ, PLY and sprite sheets, but it is Windows-focused and development has been quiet.
Also worth comparing
These listings name vengi as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Asset Forge
Block-based tool for assembling 3D models and 2D sprites for games from pre-made parts.
vengi is a free, open-source voxel suite for Windows, macOS and Linux whose converter reads MagicaVoxel and Minecraft formats, though its editor is less polished.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Blockbench
A low-poly 3D model editor built for pixel-art textures, with dedicated formats for Minecraft Java and Bedrock.
Blender
The free 3D creation suite: modelling, sculpting, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and video editing.
Dust3D
Modeller that builds 3D meshes from simple shapes instead of vertex-by-vertex editing.
