News per 6/6/2019: Blenderartists is a great website but for a good overview of addons a dedicated website is needed. There fore I started a fresh new website dedicated to Blender 2.80 addons. It’s focussed on Free addons, and secondly paid addons later. Free and paid will be separated to avoid “pollution”.

Here is the website: blender-addons.org.

Please keep it gentle because it’s brand new and it needs time to find the weaks and strengths. (Don’t give it to much publicity yet for example). If you have suggestions, ideas or you want to collaborate, let me know.

How to add your add-on to this list? (Anyone has acces to edit it and I am not going to do it anymore.).

Click on the orange pencil here on top which shows a number in front of it.

There are three categories: Free, Paid and Built in.

Simply add your add-on under one of the categories with a title, short description and one or two links.

Updated version of Google Sheets with search, category and UI. Have added all except payed and still some work to do with adding what is free and not.

To add more add-ons: Go to the “Add new here” tab and scroll down and to where there is a free spot.

docs.google.com List 2.0 of addons that work with 2.8 ADD NEW HERE CATEGORY,NAME,FREE / $,ABOUT Functionality, ,Free,Easy HRDI is a free Blender add-on that will help you to load and test your HDRI images quickly. Functionality, ,Free,g Import-Export, ,Free,Import 3DM files created with Rhinoceros...

Free addons for Blender 2.80 - Categories:

Blender Functionality

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Blender Shortcut VUr

With this Blender add-on you can display mouse and keyboard input.

Addon Pie Workspaces

MACHIN3tools

A continuously evolving collection of scripts, to simplify and automate a variety of tasks.

Context Browser (Free / Fair price)

An add-on for Blender 2.79+/2.80+ that allows you to view and edit context data of the active area.

kbPIEs (Free / Fair Price)

Screen layout switcher Pie menu.

Wazou’s Pie Menus (Free / Fair Price)

Awesome Pie Menus for Blender.

Sun Position

An Update of Michael Martins Sun Position add-on for Blender 2.8.

Cameras Lister

Easy select camera’s in popup. Shortcut is Alt-C.

QuickSwitch

QuickSwitch a helper to quick switch workspaces and view render menu in viewport.

Object Shake

A Blender 3D addon to make adding object shake easy and flexible.

Screencast Keys Status

A blender add-on Screencast Keys to display the Keyboard/Mouse and Operation status.

Simple Renaming Panel

Add-on for blender to rename more objects at once.

RotaFix

No clear description available.

HDRI Sun Aligner v1.1

Automatically rotating an object (e.g. a sun) to match the brightest point in a HDRI environment texture.

ExtraInfo

Show more info in the viewport.

AStats: Statistics for Blender

Statistics display for Blender 2.8 with a lot of customization

AStats mod: Statistics for Blender

Modified AStats to include poly/vertex/edge count, filename (and save status), committed memory, Blender version, Render Engine, Subdivision Level. Works in multiple viewports and it’s fully customizable.

AMaAs:Quick Material Assignment

Quickly assign materials to selection using pop-up menu

Easy HDRI addon 1.0.1 for Blender 2.80

Easy HRDI is a free Blender add-on that will help you to load and test your HDRI images quickly.

Photographer

Camera Exposure, White balance and Autofocus.

Temporizer

Basically this add-on lets you easily make temporary snapshots of your currently open file in a predefined folder, so that you can make as many file versions as you want without worrying about saving over your originals or polluting your project folders with many versions of the same file.

Modifier List

Alternative UI layout for modifiers with handy features. Available also inside the sidebar and as a popup.

DuWamf: Dude, Where are my folders?

This is a convenience utility add-on that makes accessing essential Blender folders easy.

Copy Blender Info

Simply copies Blender’s app info needed when doing a bug report. It copies current version, hash-code, date & time. User than only needs to paste in the template under “Blender Version”.

Move active object with keyboard in 3d view

Font Selector

Dynamic Font Management in Blender 3d View and Sequencer.

R.Array

Adds a simple radial array operator.

S.Menu

Adds 7 new Pie Menus

I will be adding other menus in the future.

LeftClick Alternative for Blender 2.80

This addon has been created to aquip Blender 2.80 with the same keymap options that are available for Right Click users.

Auto-reload external images

This addon adds automatic reload functionality for external images in Blender

Batch Process

Batch process multiple properties with ERNA syntax.

Empty to Image Plane

Add an Image Plane at every (selected) Image Empty

Eevee Presets

Simple add-on to save Eevee settings in presets.

Modifreeze

Freeze (temporary Apply), Unfreeze or Update mesh object modifiers.

Advanced UI Menus

A collection of interface elements to speed up your workflow.

Array tools

A all in one to mix translation, scale and rotation array.

A*Mouse Selection Tools

Easy mouse selection tools.

Double click to select linked and hold right mouse button for raycast selection.

A* Hide/Unhide

Extended functionality for changing visibility of objects\components

A* Selection Sets

Addon for streamlining work with vertex groups

re:BOOT

Ancient addon from saidenka to restart Blender quickly. Updated to 2.74 by meta-androcto, to 2.80 by mkbreuer and to 2.82+ by myself (Dogway).

Noter

Noter is an add-on created to increase productivity in Blender by organizing the workflow.

Modeling-Hardsurface

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Fast Carve

Hardsurface utility Blender addon for fast boolean and bevel operations.

KIT OPS FREE

KIT OPS is the systemized application of .blender files, called KIT OPS INSERTS, which can be used to instantly cut and add to existing objects or create standalone objects with the goal of rapidly creating and exploring new designs.

Floorboard generator

(Easiest would be to open raw and right click on page > save as …. .py)

EdgeFlow

Blender tools for working with edge loops.

Tina, Transfer Normals Add-on

T!NA allows you to quickly transfer normals and (optionally) vertex colors between near vertices of different objects. These objects can then be seamlessly assembled while remaining separate.

Bezier Curve CAD Tools

CAD tools for bezier curves such as: Fillet, Boolean, Offset, Intersect, Arc Length and many more.

Tissue

Tissue - Blender’s add-on for computational design.

(For those who don’t know this addon: it really cool, a must have).

SmartF

Smart and fast making face.

Destructive Extrude

It is made on the basis of aches modifier with the method of “Carve”.

Math Mesh

Mathematical mesh curve generator add-on for Blender 2.8.

Usage: Mesh > Edit mode > Select two vertices > Type in Search (F3): Math Mesh

Welder

Addon that automates creation of welds along the edge of intersection of two objects.

Tips for usage of Welder:

Use S(cale) + X to remove gaps if need

Add Smooth modifier (Factor 1, repeat around 10)

Play w ith scaling on y (depth) and z (height)

Use higher resolution mesh to prevent gaps.

Also Select the weld and play with the array modifier

to close gaps

TubeTool

Generate tubing between two selected polygons.

Laser Slicer

It slices a Blender object up and then exports those slices to SVG file(s).

Fiber Mesh

Fills a mesh with fiber.

Unregis Tools

Addon for optimizing and simplfying meshes for blender for use in OpenSim and SL. (clean up mesh)

JARCH Vis

Add-on meant to speed up the process of architectural visualization by creating commonly needed items with the click of a button.

(suggestion: remove dots from file-names/folders)

Mesh Offset Edges

Adjacent Selection Addon

Mimics Adjacent Selection from Softimage

Pipe Nightmare

Add-on inspired by the 3DS Max script Pipe Dreams

Qblocker

QBlocker is an interactive object creation tool for Blender 2.8.

Boolean 2D Union

2D Boolean Union of intersecting planes.

Advanced Cones

Addon for more complex cone-like shapes (tangent and secant ogives, prolate spheroids, parabolic cones, power series and Haack series).

Mesh Heal

Surface mesh healing add-on.

Mesh Utils

Mostly select utilities: overlapping vert/edge/face, interior faces, edges by trait, and other stuff.

“ScalaZ”

The essence of addon work is that it can set a clearly defined height for the model along the Z axis. The entire model also increases in proportion to the X and Y axes

Bevel after Boolean

As the title says, makes nice bevels after boolean. A must have addon.

Auto Mirror

Super fast cutting and mirroring for mesh Blender2.8ver. AutoMirror Addon for Blender 2.79, made by lapineige, I updated it to Blender 2.8. The price is set to 0

Blender add-on to assign shape keys

add-on for assigning one or more Bezier curves to another curve as its shape keys.

It also supports multi-spline curves, with a number of part matching criteria.

Match Transforms

It adds some buttons to the Tools/Transform panel that allow you to match the selected objects (singular or plural) tansforms (all or location, rotation, scale) to the active object (last selected).

Polysweeper

To sweep a face along a face loop

Engraver

Engraver is a simple addon with set of few tools designed to help carving decals in 3d models. This addon was designed to support modeling with custom normals workflow.

Three Point Arch Tool

This add-on allows you to create semi-circular arches by placing three points to your scene. The first and second points define the beginning and end of the arch, the third point sets the height and rotation angle of the arch

Bisectplus v1.1

This add-on allows the use of a plane (instead of a gizmo), which can be easily selected with an eyedropper. It offers more precision in adjusting the bisection and generates 3 vertex groups, namely the bisectionloop, FrontSide and Backside which both include the centercutselection for easier further operations.

Set Precise Mesh /CAD

This add-on is made for precise modeling.

For example “Set Precise Mesh” allows users to set exact values of the angle between three vertexes and also sets the exact length of the edge and has extra features for it.

Modeling-Organic

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Shape Keys+

Adds a panel with extra options for creating, sorting, viewing, and driving shape keys.

SimpleLattice

A small blender 2.8 add-on to make working with lattices simpler.

RigFlex

Simple soft body for Blender armatures.

MB-Lab

MB-Lab is an attempt to keep the ManuelBastioniLAB Blender addon alive through community efforts.

MakePillow

Rigify for MB-Lab

Adds a nearly ready-to-use Rigify Rig for Characters made with MB-Lab add-on.

Mask Tools

Blender currently lacks the functionality to save dynatopo sculpt masks. Even though this can be done with a hacky method its confusing for most. This add-on allows saving masks as vertexgroups and coverting vertex groups to masks.

Celtic knot version 1.0

Sculpt/Paint Workflow Suite

Various workflow enhancers, incl. easy brush size/strength changing.

Curve Remove Doubles

The addon glues nearby points on a single Bézier curve. In fact it is an analogue of the usual Remove Doubles on a mesh, but it is for a curve.

BlenRig 5

Rigging system

Remesh

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Instant Meshes Remesh

Addon that uses the commandline version of Instant Meshes 403 to integrate it into Blender.

Boundary Aligned Remesh

Remesh open meshes

Shaper

Automatic retopology based on shared UV space. (Marvelous Designer workflow)

Triangle

Create triangulated meshes from closed curves.

UV-Editing

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Sure UVW Map - (Development)

Texel Density Checker (Free / Fair price)

UVPackmaster 2 STANDARD (also pro available)

UVPackmaster 2 is a second release of a popular UV packing solution for Blender 3D

Blender 2 UVLayoutBridge

It’s a Blender bridge add-on between two programs Blender and Headus UVLayout for UV maps editing.

(headus UVLayout is a paid program)

Tube UV Unwrap

UV unwrap tube-like meshes (all quads, no caps, fixed number of vertices in each ring).

Quad Unwrap

UV layout bridge

Blender Add-On: A bridge between Headus UVlayout and Blender

Extra Image List

Adds a panel for easier texture selection in the UV editor

UV Toolkit

Tools collection for uv editing

Textools

TexTools is a UV and Texture tool set

Texture-Paint-Shading-Material

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HDR-ProStudio

Helps you produce eye-candy results, with thousands of possible lighting solutions for your product, character or other 3D art.

PBR Texture Mapper (PTM)

Material Bakery

(Note: For Blender 2.8, but baking process only with Cycles. I had an Cuda error when rendering on GPU so I had to use CPU to bake.)

EEVEE Toon

Set of nodes and sample shaders to make NPR shading in Blender EEVEE easier.

Principled Baker

Bake PBR textures with a few clicks

EZ paint

An improved version of Texture Paint Plus for Blender.

(Press w-key in paint-mode)

EasyBake

Tiny and easy texture baking UI

BIS - online material storage

The online materials (shaders) storage add-on for Blender 3D creation. With the BIS add-on, you can save materials (groups of nodes) to the online personal library and then convenient search and use them in your blender projects. (Free and Paid, both same functionality).

Vertex Color Master

A tool that gives artists precise control over vertex color data, allowing channel isolation, swapping, and copying to and from vertex weights. It also adds a few useful tools, such as gradient tool, HSV controls, remap, posterize and more.

Datablock Tools

Easy way to remove duplicated material or UV image datablocks (“image.png.001”, etc), typically created when copy-pasting objects.

Blender Addon PBR

Provides a material panel that creates Metallic/Roughness or Specular/Gloss Nodes using the Principled BSDF shader.

Wireframe Color Tools

Several tools to color your objects wireframes. For example random color, random range or material color.

PBR Materials

PBR Materials is an addon with physically based materials.

Bake to Vertex Color

Transfer Image Data to Vertex Color

Asset-Management

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Simple Asset Manager 2.8

Sketchfab

Import glTF assets from Sketchfab into Blender using Sketchfab download API.

Poliigon Material Converter

This addon will automatically create a material out of your texture maps. It supports Blender 2.79 and up.

BlenderKit add-on (Free / Standard / Pro)

BlenderKit is an online database of materials, brushes and 3D models which you can search, download.

YAAM Yet Another Asset Manager

A blender Asset Manager developed as part of the open movie project (openmovie.org).

AssetGen

Automates the tasks to get a game assets ready for video games from an High Poly model.

Asset Wizard

Initially based on the Simple Asset Manager but completely re-written.

Simulators-Physics-Animations

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FishSim - Goldfish Version

Fish Swimming Simulator.

Projectile

An artist-friendly tool for throwing stuff around inside Blender

Bizualizer

A visualizer addon for blender.

Blender Typewriter Add-on

Animated type writer effect for font objects in the 3D View.

Blender Text Counter

Add-on for animating numbers in a Text object, including a number of options.

Grease Writer

Add-on for auto-animating grease pencil strokes and emulating hand-drawn text.

Writing Animation

Commotion

Add-on for motion graphics.

Nudge Keyframe

Few scripts to automate some keyframe manipulations in Blender.

Create Single World Bone Blender

Addon for creating a bone in Blender 3D in world space.

Quicktalk Lip Sync Addon

NLA-Midi-Copier

add-on for syncing duplicated action strips in the NLA Editor to notes in a midi file

Rigacar

Generate rig for cars and vehicules and also generate animation for wheels and steering

Jiggle Armature new version

Bones with physics

V-HACD Convex Hull Generator

Generate accurate convex collision meshes for use in games and other real-time physics sims.

Real time animation

Addon for animating by recording object motion This addon for Blender lets you move objects of any type (including cameras, lights, etc) and bones in 3D space and record their motion as keyframes

Nodes

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Sverchok prerelease Master

Sverchok is a powerful parametric tool for architects, allowing geometry to be programmed visually with nodes.

Blender Modular Tree

This addon for blender allows the creation of realistic trees with the node editor.

(Start with: trunk node to split node then grow node then branch node)

Animation Nodes

[Animation Nodes 2.1 for Blender 2.8 Test Builds]

Dynamic Maths Expression

Automatically builds a shader node group from a user-entered mathematical expression (eg, “(a+b)*c”)

Video Sequence Editor

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Bligify

Blender addon for exporting and importing animated GIF sequences.

VSE Transform Tools

Quickly transform, crop and fade video strips in Blender’s Video Sequence Editor.

Subsimport

Subs import is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.

Blender VSE Reworked

A proof-of-concept attempt to rework and reorganize the blender Video Sequence Editor (VSE).

Freesound

Browse, listen and insert sounds from the freesound.org archive in your Blender VSE. An API key is required.

Power Sequencer

Fast cutting, trimming, and rippling with the mouse, faster playback, instant fades and crossfades, smart selection tools and 40 more improvements for VSE.

Snapping-Align

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Easy Align

Mesh objects align, and mesh objects origins align.

Mesh Align Plus

Mesh Align Plus helps you precisely align, move, and measure+match objects and mesh parts in your 3D scenes. Useful especially for hard surface modelers, mechanical, architectural and CAD/CAM users.

Snap Target Menu

Was the idea of an independent “Snap Target” menu (active, median, center, closest)

Align Pivot To Selection

Aligns and orients the object’s origin (pivot) to the selection. Works on mesh objects in both edit and object modes.

CAD like Transform

CAD like precise Move / Rotate / Scale tools, with advanced snap features like snap from / snap to. Works in both object and edit mode.

Render-RenderSettings

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OptiX Denoiser

This addon brings the power of NVIDIA OptiX Denoiser directly into Blender 3D.

(It Works on top of Declan Russel’s OptiX Denoise Windows binaries or Linux (if you compile them)):

Tips for installation:

You might end up having two times a folder named: Denosier_v2.1. This should be one folder, not two.

Denoiser possibly doesn’t work (well) when there are nodes in the compositor, remove them).

Follow instructions on Github, look at the folder/files tree.

Blender2.8-RenderButton

Adds a Render and Animation Button for Blender 2.80.

RenderBurst

Render all cameras, one by one, and store the results.

Notify

Notify is a very simple add-on for Blender 2.80 and 2.7x, that sends a system notification when render is complete, works on linux and theoretically on Windows too, havent tested it there yet.

Alarm and Shutdown v1.2 (Beta)

Allows you to set custom sound alarm, shut-down your computer by timer and send an email notification on render completion event

IO-Import-Export

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Import Rhinoceros 3D

Import 3DM files created with Rhinoceros 3D.

Import SVG Paths as Shape Keys

Point Cloud Visualizer

Display, render and convert to mesh colored point cloud PLY files.

Goz for Blender 2.8

Export (what?) to Zbrush.

Quake BSP Importer

Allows you to import level geometry and textures from the 1996 game Quake directly into Blender. Using this you could use old levels as a template for some tribute artwork or something similarly fabulous.

io_mesh_vtk VTK polydata surface mesh import-export add-on.

Paid addons for Blender 2.80

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Built-in Addons (There are more, but you can easily check them in Blender 2.80 in preferences)