ShoeBox AlternativesGame Development Tools and other similar apps like ShoeBox

ShoeBox is described as 'Free Adobe Air app for Windows and Mac OSX with drag and drop - and clipbord Game Development tools' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are eight alternatives to ShoeBox for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Chrome OS apps. The best ShoeBox alternative is TexturePacker, which is free. Other great apps like ShoeBox are Free Texture Packer, Alfred Spritesheet Unpacker, rucksack and Sprite Sheet Animator.

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Free Adobe Air app for Windows and Mac OSX with drag and drop - and clipbord Game Development tools.

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ShoeBox alternatives page was last updated Jul 13, 2020
  1. TexturePacker icon
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    Make your spritesheets fast and efficiently !.

    9 TexturePacker alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    TexturePacker Features

    1.  Sprite sheets
    2.  Texture packing
    3.  PNG Compression
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    TexturePacker VS ShoeBox

    Is TexturePacker a good alternative to ShoeBox?
     
    • TexturePacker is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ShoeBox.

    • TexturePacker is the most popular free alternative to ShoeBox.

    • TexturePacker is Freemium and ProprietaryShoeBox is Free and Proprietary
  2. Free Texture Packer icon
     2 likes

    Free Texture Packer is an open source tool that allows you to pack multiple images into one atlas for you games or sites.

    5 Free Texture Packer alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Gulp.js
    • Webpack
    • npm
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    Free Texture Packer VS ShoeBox

    Is Free Texture Packer a good alternative to ShoeBox?
     
    • Free Texture Packer is the most popular Web-based alternative to ShoeBox.

    • Free Texture Packer is the most popular Open Source alternative to ShoeBox.

    • Free Texture Packer is Free and Open SourceShoeBox is Free and Proprietary
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    A simple application which converts an animation spritesheet into individual frames. It's a really simple tool which automatically determines the sprite sheet bitmap background colour which can be used to set transparency in the exported frames and automatically determines...

    7 Alfred Spritesheet Unpacker alternatives
    Alfred Spritesheet Unpacker screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Alfred Spritesheet Unpacker Features

    1.  Spritesheet unpacking
    Discontinued

    the last version: ForkandBeard released this on May 10, 2017Can still found at the site, but no updates have happened since then.

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    Alfred Spritesheet Unpacker VS ShoeBox

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  4.  2 likes

    rucksack is a texture packer and resource bundler. Use the rucksack executable to build your resources file, and then depend on librucksack in-game to get the resources out at runtime. Alternately, roll your own resource-loading code using the file format detailed at the end of...

    7 rucksack alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    rucksack VS ShoeBox

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  5.  1 like

    Have a sprite that you want to show off? Well its easy to do that but if its an animated sprite and you want to show off the animation well then that requires some image cropping, a program that turns images into a gif and blah blah blah.

    8 Sprite Sheet Animator alternatives
    Sprite Sheet Animator screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Sprite Sheet Animator Features

    1.  Portable
    Discontinued

    The linked page shows this at the bottom: ? Last Edit: March 17, 2012, 07:15:12 PM by modern algebra ?, I don't know if there's a later version, but, if so, please update.

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    Sprite Sheet Animator VS ShoeBox

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    Use Zwoptex to create sprite sheets in just a couple of clicks. With powerful features, turbocharged algorithms and an elegant interface sprite sheets could never be easier.

    5 Zwoptex alternatives

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Zwoptex VS ShoeBox

    Is Zwoptex a good alternative to ShoeBox?
     
    • Zwoptex is the most popular commercial alternative to ShoeBox.

    • Zwoptex is Paid and ProprietaryShoeBox is Free and Proprietary
  7. Sprite Monkey icon
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    Sprite Monkey is the smallest and fastest sprite editor without sacrificing features! Quickly edit your sprite sheet/strip, aka “texture atlas”, in a simple uncluttered user interface. Easily create sprite coordinate scripts in the “no plugin” script editor for any game engine...

    9 Sprite Monkey alternatives
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    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. GameDevUtils.com icon
     1 like

    An open source sprite sheet packer. More tools coming soon.

    8 GameDevUtils.com alternatives
    GameDevUtils.com screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Self-Hosted
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    GameDevUtils.com VS ShoeBox

    Is GameDevUtils.com a good alternative to ShoeBox?
     
    • GameDevUtils.com is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to ShoeBox.

    • GameDevUtils.com is Free and Open SourceShoeBox is Free and Proprietary
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