Roxel vs Vengi VoxEdit

Roxel is a free, open-source desktop voxel editor for hobbyists and indie creators, available for Windows and macOS. Its tools include brush, erase, recolor, eyedrop, select, move, and shape drawing. Rectangles, ellipses, and lines can be drawn on a build plane or extruded into 3D forms. An open-world grid allows painting across X/Z and upward as far as memory permits. Roxel includes built-in palettes, user palette management, and Adobe Swatch Exchange import and export. It opens MagicaVoxel .vox, Qubicle .qb, and Goxel .gox files, and exports .vox, .gox, .obj, .fbx, .glb, .png, and .svg. Projects use the .rox format; the maker says .glb exports are ready for Unity and Godot. Light, Dark, and System themes include customizable canvas and floor colors. The MIT license permits use, forks, and building on the project. Its itch.io page marks it in development and lists version 0.7.1 downloads. The maker says macOS builds are self-signed and not notarized, and Windows builds are unsigned.

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.