Hello there, and thank you for taking the time to read our extensive list many of the top blender addons available. Just for reference: any time items have a plus icon after their price (free+ or $19+), it means that it is a lite version, or at least that there are more expensive versions available.
If you need help installing addons, read this article, otherwise, let’s jump right in!
Zen UV
$39
Zen UV is a pipeline tool, making it hard to simplify what exactly it does, but here are some of it’s features: Full set of Transform tools, Quad Islands, Seam Groups, Checker Map System, Texel Density, Advanced UV Maps.
Mechanical Creature Kit
Free+
This addon contains large kit of procedural bolts, cogs, and other miniature mechanisms, as well as animated rigs and procedural materials.
SpeedRetopo
$10+
Speedretopo is a fast and easy re-topology tool that allows you to draw and have it instantly convert to simplified geometry.
Kit Ops 3 Free
Free
KIT OPS is a speedy kitbashing tool that is compatible with a huge amount of asset packs and allows you to insert objects with booleans.
Holt Tools
Free
Holt Tools is a general purpose addon created by YouTuber Curtis Holt with many features including .blend file cleanup and mesh optimization.
Sculpt Layers
$22+
Sculpt Layers allows you to store multiple levels of detail separately for a sing model. It also allows layer imports from ZBrush.
Simple Tabs
Free
This addon allows you to edit tabs in the N-panel (3D view sidebar) by reordering them, renaming them, and combining them. Especially helpful for users with many addons installed.
Tex Tools
Free
Tex Tools is a general purpose UV workflow tool with many features including: Preview normal maps, Straiten UV edges, Simplified UV Mesh Wrap.
Laces Generator
$12+
This addon let’s you use to procedural lace presets, and customize them completely outside of geometry nodes.
UV-Packer
Free
UV Packer is a 3ds Max addon that has been converted into a Blender addon as well. It boasts incredibly efficient UV packing.
Procedural Crowds
$18+
This addon includes more than 20 photo-scanned, rigged, and animated characters, which can use a particle system to follow points, or walk randomly.
Procedural Alleys
$18+
A large asset pack combined with geometry nodes to make alley generating easier than ever.
Cablerator
$14+
Cablerator automatically generates cables when you select two areas of geometry. It also allows you to draw cables, and simulate them using physics.
Geo Cables
Free
This addon allows you to quickly add cables by drawing it, or simply clicking on surfaces or converting objects to cables.
Serpens
$24
Serpens is in my opinion one of the very top blender addons. Because you can use it to make whatever addons you like. It is a visual scripting addon, but even for python coders it’s a must-have.
Flip Fluids
$76
FLIP Fluids is a highly stable liquid simulation tool. Some of its features include: whitewater, high viscosity, surface tension, and custom force fields.
Retopoflow
$85.99
Retopoflow is an all-in-one re-topology addon which includes many features allowing for improved efficiency. Features include patching, tweaking, cutting, and looping tools, as well as topology using strokes.
Speedsculpt
$20
Speedsculpt gives you a large group of tools for sculpting including: skin and metaball meshes, combining objects with a single click using boooleans, and drawing geometry.
Fluent: Power Trip
$29.90
This addon is an extensive nod-destructive hard surface modeling addon which allows for faster boolean creation, a customizable menu which includes modifier succession presets and boolean customization.
Realtime Materials
Free
This is one of the top blender addons for shading. it’s a huge library of procedural materials that work in both Eevee and Cycles. Created by Blender YouTuber Ducky 3D.
Simplebake
$20
Simple bake allows you to bake PBR textures with a single click. Which generally takes a bit longer (see this article).
Powersave
Free
PowerSave makes sure that all your projects are saved without you needing to manually name them and pick a save location.
botaniq
$2+
Botaniq is one of the top blender addons as far as nature goes, it compacts a HUGE collection of nature assets into an easy-to-use addon. And comes with animation, scatter, and particle tools to fully customize your renders.
Easy BPY
Free
This addon simplifies the Blender API by converting it to a more memorable and understandable language.
Nature Clicker
Free
4.8 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
Nature Clicker allows you to click anywhere and have selected objects spawn. By default it uses instancing, for a low memory usage.
Mouse-Look
Free
This addon adds many navigation features to Blender, most notably ZBrush mode, which allows tablet users to navigate the view-port with ease.
UVPackmaster
$44
Uvpackmaster is a speedy, GPU accelerated UV Packer. But it also has some other features including an advanced UV stacking algorithm.
Curves to Roads
$5
A geometry nodes generator that transforms curves into roads. With drawn or manually placed curves, and customizable roads.
Infinite Looping
Free
An addon that allows for the infinite looping of any object, which can be dynamically animated using geometry nodes.
Realtime Flame Generator
$10
A real-time flame system that can be rendered in Cycles and Eevee, and includes customizations such as gravity, size, and density.
Pipe Systems Generator
$6+
Pipe System Generator spawns a 3D lattice around your input mesh and finds the best rectangular path, meaning you don’t have to extrude every single turn in the pipe.
Erode It
Free+
Erode it allows you to add procedural damage using a single button, with modifiers that can be edited in the pro version.
Droplet Generator
$15
Droplet Generator creates photo-realistic condensation which is fully procedural can be animated.
Sculpt-Paint Wheel
$26.50
A tool bar addon for left handed and tablet users. With brush setting shortcuts, brush presets and a colour picker.
BlenderKit
Free+
This website has a large number of free assets available, that can be downloaded directly inside Blender, using it’s free addon.
Auto-Rig Pro
$25+
An automatic rigging addon with IK presets for bodies, hands, ropes, and wings. Among other features it has a customizable user interface, a panel picker, rig layers and allows for remapping.
Import As Decal
Free
Import as Decal is a custom node for converting images into damaged stickers, decals, and posters.
Quick UV Checkers
Free
With Quick UV Checkers you can quickly toggle on and off a checkered pattern that will allow you to see the state of your UVs.
Bumarin
Free
Bumarin allows you to draw using grease pencil and then quickly convert it into a customizable mesh. It is great for concept art and stylization.
MESHmachine
$45
MESHmachine is a blender mesh modeling addon with a focus on hard surface work without subdivision surfaces. Features include: Turning chamfers into bevels and back, creating variable fillets, and unbevelling to go back to hard edge
Hard Ops
$38
Is a hard-surface modeling and box-cutting addon which can work both non-destructively or destructively. Its box-cutting tool is incredibly fast. It also contains loads of tools to improve your workflow.
Extreme Pbr Nexus
$39+
This is an extensive addon with over 1800 materials, a PBR texture paint system, real-time water, materials on the Z-axis, Surface imperfection overlays, and micro-displacement.
Procedural Signs
$18
This addon comes with a group of customizable signs, which can be changed and edited however you like.
Simply Cloth Pro
$9+
This addon includes a group of cloth presets as well as a large bundle of cloth models.
Bonus tip…
Check out Duet PBR, a website which allows you to search all of the major sources for CC0 PBR textures at one time.
