Shadertoy Alternatives
Shadertoy is described as 'is the first application to allow developers all over the globe to push pixels from code to screen using WebGL since 2009'. There are more than 10 alternatives to Shadertoy, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted solutions and iPhone. The best alternative is Shader Editor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Shadertoy are SHADERed (Free, Open Source), Shade - Pro Shader Editor (Freemium), GSN Composer (Free) and Shdr (Free, Open Source).
- Create and edit GLSL shaders on your Android phone or tablet and use them as live wallpaper. View 20 alternatives to Shader Editor
- Lightweight, full-featured desktop tool for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders. View 20 alternatives to SHADERed
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Shade transforms your device into a professional node-based shader editor. Build stunning, connected shader graphs that render in real time. View 20 alternatives to Shade - Pro Shader Editor
- The GSN Composer is a free web application intended for rapid prototyping and interactive demonstrations. View 14 alternatives to GSN Composer
- Shdr is an online ESSL (GLSL) shader editor, viewer and validator powered by WebGL. View 23 alternatives to Shdr
- An online GSGL Shader Gallery and live development tool. You can freely add to it without an account. View 21 alternatives to GLSL Sandbox
- RenderMonkey™ Toolsuite | AMD Developer Central RenderMonkey is an integrated development environment (IDE) that can be used to write shaders in HLSL, GLSL, and GLES. View 12 alternatives to RenderMonkey
- Rayground is a framework for rapid prototyping of algorithms based on the ray tracing paradigm. Its main goal is to help develop, test and share self contained modules that showcase a particular method or technique. View 13 alternatives to Rayground
- ShaderLab is the WebGL2 GLSL Editor for the browser. Code your shaders right in your browser with a live view to progress in the background. View 23 alternatives to ShaderLab
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
ShaderLab vs Shadertoy
gmazk8 Shaderlab is the only solution that allows using external images from imgur (or any website that allows for cross-domain access) as input textures, and allows the user to use his own MP3 files as audio inputs. It also have a Vim mode by pressing F9 on the editor, to use search and replace with regexp.CamilaSantiago You can use custom textures and custom audio with your shaders. - FX Composer is an integrated development environment (IDE) for authoring shaders. Shading languages it supports are HLSL, Cg, and CgFX. View 11 alternatives to FX Composer
Discontinued
Was already discontinued in 2008
No screenshots yet- Free • Proprietary
- Windows