Filter Forge vs LigidPainter
Filter Forge
filterforge.com
LigidPainter
ligidtools.comSide by side
| Figure | Filter Forge | LigidPainter |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $12/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 9 | 1 |
| Spec score · 3D Texturing Software | 8.1 (#8) | 7.8 (#16) |
| Integrations | The application runs standalone or as a plugin for supported hosts including Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Paint.NET, and Affinity Photo. | The maker's pages opened describe LigidAPI as a separate rendering and image processing library, but do not state that it integrates with LigidPainter. |
| Purpose | Filter Forge provides photo effects, seamless textures, and an editor for creating custom filters. | LigidPainter is a free 3D model texturing application. |
Plans
Filter Forge
- Professional Edition — 1-month subscription$12 a month
- Studio Edition — 1-month subscription$19 a month
- Professional Edition — 3-month subscription$29, paid once
- Studio Edition — 3-month subscription$49, paid once
- Basic Edition — permanent license$59, paid once
- Professional Edition — permanent license$139, paid once
- Studio Edition — permanent license$259, paid once
- Professional Edition plus lifetime upgrades$288, paid once
- Studio Edition plus lifetime upgrades$538, paid once
In their own words
Filter Forge
Filter Forge has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
LigidPainter
LigidPainter is free 3D texturing software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It generates seamless materials and textures for selected material channels or processes all channels automatically. Artists can paint directly on models or in a 2D scene with custom brushes, normal-map and filter painting, vectoral painting, and XYZ mirroring. Its material workflow includes albedo, roughness, metallic, normal, height, and ambient-occlusion textures, with procedural materials, PBR workflows, and node-based authoring. Projects are stored as folders, allowing saved textures to be retrieved there or exported. The itch.io listing identifies version 3.0.0 and describes the application as in development; its download page offers a 194 MB Windows 64-bit MSI. The maker’s build guide describes Windows and Unix-like builds and lists OpenAL, Freetype, and zlib as required binaries. The license permits unchanged binary redistribution with attribution but prohibits selling it and restricts source-code use.