MagicaVoxel vs Vengi VoxEdit

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.

Vengi VoxEdit is a free, open-source voxel volume editor for creating and changing voxel scenes, with scripting and animation support. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and the web; OpenGL 4.3 is the stated system requirement. Editing tools include shape, stamp, line, extrude, sculpt, texture, paint, and transform brushes. Animation features include layers, keyframes, automatic keyframing, and IK constraints. The editor can load and save many voxel formats, with the vengi format described as best supported. It can import meshes for voxelization and export models or scenes to meshes and other formats. Lua scripting is available through a built-in editor and community script browser. Network mode supports collaborative editing and chat. Saving to formats other than vengi may lose scene details, and animation saves only in vengi or formats that support animation. Connecting to voxbox.store requires a VoxBox account. The editor is under development, and the project directs users to Discord for support, requests, and bug reports.