Best for: Resin 3D printing slicer that prepares models for SLA, DLP and LCD machines
Best for: Squeezing better surface quality out of an FFF printer through fine-grained settings
Free + paid options
The Basic edition is free to download. ChiTuBox Pro is a separate paid product.
Free
Free and open source under the AGPL.
Windows, macOS
Windows, macOS, Linux
It handles the resin-specific work that filament slicers skip, including hollowing, drain holes, automatic supports and per-layer exposure settings for the printer profile you pick.
Generates its own calibration test prints instead of making you find models
Fine-grained top-surface settings including only-one-perimeter-on-top
Better thin-wall handling, anchored into the print rather than left loose
Handles FFF G-code and masked SLA PNG layers from one program
The free Basic edition is closed source and holds back the faster slicing engine and several support tools that are only in the paid Pro edition.
The author states the Linux and macOS builds are compiled but not tested by them
The last tagged stable release is from 2024, with newer work in nightly builds
The extra settings make an already dense interface denser
A single-maintainer fork tracking PrusaSlicer upstream
ChiTuBox Basic
SuperSlicer