Alternatives to Mari

Trumble

Trumble suits game developers and artists who want browser-based texture painting, 2D editing and map baking.

Surface Labs

Surface Labs suits indie developers and artists making procedural materials for PBR workflows, including pipelines using Unity, Unreal Engine, or Godot.

InstaMAT

It suits 3D artists and teams creating procedural materials or texturing assets, as well as production teams that need pipeline automation.

Material Maker suits people creating procedural materials for 3D games and related graphics work, especially those using node graphs or exporting to listed engines.

AwesomeBump suits people making material maps from images, particularly users who want GPU-based processing and texture conversion.

Forge Material Studio suits artists and developers authoring tileable PBR materials or converting albedo images into editable maps.

Knald suits texture artists and technical teams working with polygon meshes or image sources in physically based pipelines.

LigidPainter

It suits artists who need free 3D texture painting and material generation across Windows, macOS, or Linux.

MeshCoat suits game developers and 3D artists who want local texture painting without accounts or subscriptions.

It suits Windows artists and technical users creating baked and PBR maps.

TextureLab suits artists and developers who want node-based procedural materials, tileable outputs, GPU-oriented processing, and a metallic PBR workflow.

Pigmi suits artists and technical users building palettes, gradients, and PBR materials on desktop systems.

Wafer

Wafer suits artists creating stylized, hand-painted, or NPR assets who want to paint directly on 3D geometry.

VFX Texture Lab suits 3D and VFX artists building procedural effects, flipbooks, materials, or lightweight meshes.