Mixos Paint may suit game artists, motion designers, 3D hobbyists, students, and studios painting textures for 3D models.
Free plan From $5.99 a month, billed yearly AndroidiPhone & iPadWebWindowsMacLinux+2
- Home
- Design, Video & Audio
- 3D Texturing Software
Best 3D Texturing Software 2026
Texturing tools help you paint surfaces and build materials for 3D assets. Compare 3D texture painting and PBR workflow with procedural materials and node-based authoring, then check maximum texture resolution and texture baking for the assets you work with. Supported platforms, free plans, and paid-from prices can help narrow the practical choices. Mixos Paint, Surface Labs, and Marmoset Viewer are among the options to compare. Look at the listed capabilities in relation to your material workflow, the resolution you need, and how you prepare textures for use.
02
Mari
Mari suits artists working on high-resolution texturing and look development for VFX, animation or games.
WindowsLinux Record5.7 Visit
03
Trumble
Trumble suits game developers and artists who want browser-based tools for 3D texturing, 2D painting, and map baking.
WebWindowsMac+1 Record5.7 Visit
04
Surface Labs
Surface Labs may suit indie developers and people working in Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, VFX, or other PBR texture workflows.
AndroidiPhone & iPadWindows+3 Record5.6 Visit
05
InstaMAT
InstaMAT may suit 3D artists and production teams creating materials, texturing assets, or automating content pipelines.
WindowsMacLinux Record5.5 Visit
6
Wafer
iPhone & iPadWindowsMac $45 one-time Record5.4 Visit Wafer may suit artists making stylized, hand-painted, or NPR 3D assets who want direct painting on geometry and layered editing.
8
ColorMinis
AndroidiPhone & iPadMac $49.99 a year Record5.2 Visit ColorMinis suits people who want to generate and paint 3D models on mobile or Mac.
10
ShaderMap
Windows $19 one-time Record5.0 Visit It suits Windows artists and technical teams building texture and PBR map workflows.
11
Material Maker
WindowsMacLinux $14.99 one-time Record4.9 Visit Material Maker suits people making textures and materials for 3D games and related graphics work.
12
TextureLab
WindowsMacLinux Free plan Record4.9 Visit TextureLab suits artists and developers who want free, open-source procedural textures with node editing, GPU-oriented nodes, and Unity export.
13
Knald
Windows $100 one-time Record4.8 Visit Knald may suit texture artists and teams working with high-to-low polygon meshes or 2D sources in physically based pipelines.
14
MeshCoat
WindowsMacLinux Free plan Record4.8 Visit MeshCoat suits game developers and 3D artists who want local texture painting without accounts or subscriptions.
15
AwesomeBump
WindowsMacLinux Free plan Record4.7 Visit AwesomeBump suits artists and developers who need to generate or convert material maps from an image.
16
LigidPainter
WindowsMacLinux Free plan Record4.7 Visit It suits 3D artists who need material-channel painting and procedural texturing across desktop operating systems.
18
VFX Texture Lab
WindowsLinux Free plan Record4.7 Visit It suits 3D and VFX artists who need procedural texture, material, animation and geometry workflows.
19
ArmorPaint
AndroidiPhone & iPadWindows+2 $19 one-time Record4.6 Visit It suits 3D artists who need to paint textures on models and want node-based materials, texture baking, and a PBR workflow.
20
Pigmi
WindowsMacLinux Free plan Record4.6 Visit Pigmi suits texture artists and PBR workflows on Linux, macOS, or Windows.
22
Blacksmith3D
Windows Free plan Record4.5 Visit It suits Windows artists who need texture painting, model morphing, UV mapping, or hair-model tools.
23
Forge Material Studio
WebWindows Free plan Record4.5 Visit It suits artists and technical users authoring tileable PBR materials locally on the web or Windows.
More in Design, Video & Audio
Photo Editing Software 160Video Editing Software 155Digital Asset Management Software 151Graphic Design Software 1503D modeling software 147Live Streaming Software 137Video Downloaders 135Screen Recording Software 132Audio Editing Software 131Animation Software 106Image Upscaling Software 99Data Visualization Software 98Game Engine Software 92Image Compression Software 85Stock Photo Websites 803D CAD Software 79Screenshot Annotation Software 76Video Converter Software 76