MagicaVoxel vs Mega Voxels

MagicaVoxel is a free desktop voxel-art editor and interactive path-tracing renderer for Windows and macOS. Its model editor uses shader-based, GPU-accelerated brushes and editing commands, alongside sculpting and animation tools. The built-in GPU renderer provides interactive path tracing. An IO panel handles palette and material data plus rendering, camera, and notes settings in text form. Listed export choices include slices, cubes, and point clouds, and the maker provides a denoiser plugin download. The maker lists version 0.99.7.2, dated 7/12/2025, as Beta. MagicaVoxel is free to use for any project, with a listed plan price of free. The maker appreciates credit to the software. Selling or distributing the original or modified software inside other packages is disallowed. It is a desktop application rather than a web service, and the listed platforms are Windows and macOS. No free trial is offered. The product combines voxel modeling, GPU rendering, animation, and text-based project data import and export.

Mega Voxels is a mobile app for making 3D voxel art and 2D pixel art on Android and iOS. Its editors include a 3D voxel workspace and a pixel-art editor with Pencil, Bucket Fill, and Magic Wand tools. The installation guide describes a library of more than 450 voxel models and says users can create models up to 256×256×256. The app supports MagicaVoxel VOX files and OBJ export; the maker describes exports for use with tools such as Unity and Blender. It also says users can create and save video animations and view designs in augmented reality. The app download is free, and free content licenses are issued at no cost. Premium content licenses are available with a valid subscription, but each license applies to one design, and premium content cannot be copied, downloaded, or distributed as a standalone item. Weekly Premium costs $1.99 a month, Monthly Premium costs $4.99 a month, and Yearly Premium costs $49.99 a year. The maker identifies Go Real Games, LLC as the app's owner and operator.