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!
Powersave – free
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
PowerSave makes sure that all your projects are saved without you needing to manually name them and pick a save location.
botaniq – $2+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
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+
4.8 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
This addon adds many navigation features to Blender, most notably ZBrush mode, which allows tablet users to navigate the view-port with ease.
UV Squares – Free
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
With UV Squares you can easily convert any shape into a rectangle or square.
UVPackmaster – $44+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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
4.6 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
A geometry nodes generator that transforms curves into roads. With drawn or manually placed curves, and customizable roads.
Infinite Looping – Free
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
An addon that allows for the infinite looping of any object, which can be dynamically animated using geometry nodes.
Realtime Flame Generator – $10
4.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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+
4.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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+
4.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
Droplet Generator creates photo-realistic condensation which is fully procedural can be animated.
Sculpt-Paint Wheel – $29
4.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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 – $19.50+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
Import as Decal is a custom node for converting images into damaged stickers, decals, and posters.
Quick UV Checkers – Free
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
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
4.8 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
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 – $40+
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
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
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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 – $29+
4.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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 – $14.40
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
This addon comes with a group of customizable signs, which can be changed and edited however you like.
BY-Gen – Free
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
BY-GEN is a procedural generative addon that is great for abstract and modular art.
Simply Cloth Pro – $36+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
This addon includes a group of cloth presets as well as a large bundle of cloth models.
Zen UV – $34+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
This addon contains large kit of procedural bolts, cogs, and other miniature mechanisms, as well as animated rigs and procedural materials.
SpeedRetopo – $8+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
Speedretopo is a fast and easy re-topology tool that allows you to draw and have it instantly convert to simplified geometry.
Kit-Ops – Free+
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
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
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
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+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
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.
Mesh Materializer – $15
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
Mesh Materializer lets you use UV Maps to wrap objects around other objects.
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+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
This addon includes more than 20 photo-scanned, rigged, and animated characters, which can use a particle system to follow points, or walk randomly.
Geo Nodes Lego Assembly – Free
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
A geometry node setup which assembles Lego pieces dynamically.
Procedural Alleys – $12
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
A large asset pack combined with geometry nodes to make alley generating easier than ever.
Cablerator – $14+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
This addon allows you to quickly add cables by drawing it, or simply clicking on surfaces or converting objects to cables.
Serpens – $24
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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.
Lightning Bolts Generator – $4
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
A geometry node setup that simulates lightning and electricity.
Flip Fluids – $76
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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+
4.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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 – $15
4.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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
4.9 out of 5.0 stars stars on Gumroad
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+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
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.
Bpainter – $39.99
4.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
BPainter is a texturing tools which gives you layers, a brush library, improved palette system, a better eye dropper tool, and a PBR workflow.
Simplebake – $18+
5.0 out of 5.0 stars stars on Blender Market
Simple bake allows you to bake PBR textures with a single click. Which generally takes a bit longer (see this article).
Bonus!
Duet PBR – free
A website which allows you to search all of the major sources for CC0 PBR textures at one time.
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