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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/blender-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/blender-profile/alternatives/) # Blender User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 955 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.7/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.8/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 659 reviews (69%) - 4 stars: 270 reviews (28%) - 3 stars: 22 reviews (2%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 3 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - The sheer-ability to do a parametric modelling and ability to create your own workspace, divide and play with windows is the thing I liked the most about Blender. - Been using blender for almost 900h, I'll say its a good 3D software WHICH BY THE WAY is free, get constantly update with new things, has a large community which are more then willing to help you and you can download it from steam too. - Since Blender is open source, there are constant additions to it hence it has many different types of features which are very helpful, the community is also very active. Since it has such a huge community, assets are really easy to find as well as tutorials ### Most mentioned cons - Not sure if it was the software or limitations with my PC, but even with an 4GB dedicated Nvidia graphics card, it was a little slow at times once adding layering to the 3D models. - Least Liked: Its complex and not easy for beginners. Since its one of the newborn software, it won't run smoothly on old platform even on windows 10. - The interface is overwhelming at first, and linking to other programs is sometimes frustrating. But like any 3D grogram I guess. ## Blender customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 955 (page 1). ### Decent 3D modeling - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Haydn C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Blender is a decent 3D modeling software but doesnt match Maya Autodesk due to limitations #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros This program can be used on lightweight machines, yes you wont be able to do as much as you can on something like a gaming computer but its still good to do simple 3D modeling. #### Cons There is no history kept so you cannot make changes to the polygons once you start a new polygon #### Reasons for switching to Blender Creaper option to use with similar features --- ### Blender : Blend your imagination - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Abhinav B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Animation - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Blender: it blends your thought with a wide variety of tools Sets . No other software is compatible or even near with this big giant in an open source community #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros As the industry is going to be more professional and cost-effective day by day, the blender offers a wide variety of tools and presets along with plug-ins that suits your ultimate requirement #### Cons Everyone is moving towards extreme professionalism , While blender is providing from a to Z solutions, coming to the point perfection in all the Stream is yet to be achieved, I guess blender achieved 90% accuracy and 10 yet to be achieved #### Reasons for switching to Blender Because it belongs to the open source community and available free of cost nothing can compare this option --- ### Blender Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Software is free for anyone to use. The software is easy to download. #### Cons The only real con I have for Blender is the learning curve. That can be countered by tutorials on online that take you through the basics of Blender. There is also more indepth tutorials that get way more complicated. --- ### My passion - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Guellord I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. it's a powerful tool for 3D modeling and 2D drafting in industry, thanks to its features and documentation. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros it's a free tool that's very easy to use since it integrates geometry and simulation nodes, making work more automatic and saving you a lot of time. #### Cons it's a tool that's frequently updated, and I hope one day its character rigging system will be easier to set up. #### Reasons for choosing Blender is a free, easy-to-use software program with a large online community. --- ### Free and open source 3D design software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nabin P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Blender is the best software for creating rich animations and visual effects on a low budget. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The Blender software comes with CPU and GPU rendering abilities, advanced sculpting tools, production-ready visual effects, high-quality animation and rigging, and supports 2D design in 3D scenes. Works great on Windows, Mac and Linux systems too. Offers rich collection of models and elements with Blender cloud membership at $11.5 per month. #### Cons Blender is a bit complicated to learn. Not suitable for developing games. Models are somewhat noisy and messy to clean. #### Reasons for choosing Blender Blender is cost-effective and more flexible with third-party integration. #### Reasons for switching to Blender Blender is free and open-source that gave us more reliability and freedom. --- ### You can't Go wrong with Blender - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ach H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Animation - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Over All Blender is a tool that is going to help you a lot with your work and with your money. The workflow is faster because it is Shortcuts depending, maybe hard to learn at first but the fruits of the work going to show very quickly. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros You have a Full pack in one software from texturing and modelling to sculpting and post-production, everything is integrated in it plus you can have the full app in a USB where ever you go ! Have been using it for more than 6 years and today it is more powerful and modern, they even added a unique 2D in a 3D environment feature that is unique to blender. #### Cons This is a hard one I don't think there is something I don't like about it other than it is a bit hard to learn but it is hard to learn any type of 3D generally. and the app can crash from time to time but same could be said to any 3D Software. #### Reasons for choosing Blender Because I didn't know better at the time, and I was just trying to discover 3D and the paywall was a Turn-off. #### Reasons for switching to Blender UI UX wise and the resources plus the fact that Blender is free --- ### Best tool for a 3D developer. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Edwin O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It is completely the best perfect tool if you want to learn 3D. It takes time for one to learn but once to understand how to use it you will never for any other software used to develop 3D models. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros First is its freeness, this software is a free and open source software thus it doesn't restrict you from using it if you have no money. Another thing I like is that it does not only creation of animations but also one can create games using this software. Navigating through its interface is easy with its various features. This software supports various graphic formats compared to related alternatives. Lastly is its versatility, adapting these software is easy and it can easily be changed to develop 2D also. #### Cons Learning curve is really deep but one you understand how to use that software, you would not have any need of these other software's. This really consumes a lot of time since you'll have to look for supporting documents for for you to fully understand the workings of this software, otherwise it is so far the best software I have ever used for 3D modelling. #### Reasons for choosing Blender Blender really meets most of the business needs compared Lightwave3D. --- ### Great for architectural visualizations - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Favio R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Using Blender changed how I presented my architectural designs during this period. It took some time to master, but now it’s an essential part of my design toolkit. Not for every scenario, though, but it's great to have the alternative in my software portfolio to produce high-quality visuals that bring my projects to life. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blender’s comprehensive suite of tools is a game-changer for creating detailed architectural 3D renderings and visualizations. Its is constantly improving and updating with new content. #### Cons Due to its steep learning curve can be hard to manage at first, especially for those new to 3D modeling software. #### Reasons for switching to Blender Try new alternatives in a complex commercial project that needed more detail. --- ### Powerful 3d tool when you crack the learning curve. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Pablo R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Blender helps realise my design ideas before anything is constructed. It’s made my ideas more comprehensible to clients, and it’s made closing deals happen #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like how much creativity it gives me. I have interiors to build out, lighting to tweak and I can show clients realistic renders without spending tons of money on software. The material and light choices are really good. #### Cons It took me a little while to get used to the interface, it’s not all that intuitive at first. I had to watch a lot of tutorials before I was able to really zip around with it. --- ### Blender rocks every time - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Federico A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Printing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Just great, I keep learning everyday and it is quite the challenge to understand all features since it is such a comprehensive software with a huge community #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros IT DOES EVERYTHING and with such a beautiful quality and easy interface. I simply love it. #### Cons Some stuff takes a lot of GPU but, it is a software that you can use to do everything. --- ### Fantastic, fun piece of software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Steven W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very good - easy to use, even for a beginner getting to grips with the software. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Free and lots of good Youtube tutorial videos to flow and get familiar with creating work in it. #### Cons Not sure if it was the software or limitations with my PC, but even with an 4GB dedicated Nvidia graphics card, it was a little slow at times once adding layering to the 3D models. --- ### Why Blender3D is a good 3D software for any beginner - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Praveen Hans H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Animation - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Been using blender for almost 900h, I'll say its a good 3D software WHICH BY THE WAY is free, get constantly update with new things, has a large community which are more then willing to help you and you can download it from steam too. This might be specific but I like to keep a track of "just how much have I used a software" #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The thing I like the most about Blender3D is the community, if you are stuck at something there will always be a guy who has the same problem as you and will have a solution for it. #### Cons Simulations are hard to run, thats the only con, which can be overcome with proxies --- ### Blender - Powerful Teaching Tool to inspire 3d modelers and crafters. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: James G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Libraries - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The primary advantage Blender has for our use here at the library is the cost savings of using open source. There are no licensing fees and the students are free to install copies of blender on their own computers and laptops. This is a huge benefit to the open source nature of Blender. If we get additional students in our STEAM classes we don't have to worry about how many seats we have available. While we do have a limit on the number of available laptops to use in the class this can be expanded by some students bringing their own laptops. The excitement that students show when they render their first simple scenes and again when they render their first animations is incredible. I have been teaching blender in a classroom environment for nearly two decades now and love to hear former students share how they have continued to use blender in their work or their hobbies. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I teach STEAM workshops for 3rd -12th grade students at our local library. Blender provides a great platform to introduce 3d modeling. As open source software there are no budget crippling licensing fees and not even my advanced students are going to push the limits of Blender. We are able to explore 3d modeling, animation and key framing to develop fun realistic photos and movies. In addition the students are exposed to 3d printing to see their work enter into the real world. Blender captures the imaginations of students, whether they are more technically inclined or artistic. I recommend blender to any STEAM instructors. #### Cons Blender has a reputation as being difficult to use. I have been using it since shortly after it was open sourced. My experience in 3d up until then came from using Caligari's Truespace, which was probably the most intuitive 3d program on the market at that time. Blender definitely had a steep learning curve. Today much of that initial learning curve has been simplified tremendously with an improved gui, hotkey choices and listening to users. That said, students can still be overwhelmed by Blender's complexity unless carefully guided through their initial exposure. I don't see this as a flaw of Blender, but rather a result of the power that it has. #### Reasons for choosing Blender As mentioned above, the capabilities of blender when added to it's free licensing made it the perfect 3d modeling software for STEAM workshops at the library. --- ### It can be very hard to learn - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tchameni C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Blender is good for advanced motion graphic design. It's free and easily accessible. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Software surf is a progressive search and I have done a lot of testing and trying hoping to fall on a perfect fit. I've tried Blender for a few months and got to discover some of its coolest features.-Blender is open-source and free for almost anyone with a good PC to use. This makes it attractive because users with no budget get to work with it too.- It's cross-platform compatible: It works on popular operating systems like macOS, Windows, and Linux- providing users with extra flexibility as they can work with their preferred operating systems.- It also provides a comprehensive feature set for modeling, sculpting, animation, rendering, compositing, and video editing, making it a versatile all-in-one solution for designers.- There are regular updates and new features are constantly introduced or improved in the software which can be essential for renovating user experience.- There is great support from the community like tutorials and resources that's why I rated it excellent. #### Cons Here are some of the major reasons why I switched from using Blender:- Its interface is non-standard: It has a completely different user interface that can be very difficult to master. Features are too nested and this can be overwhelming as you'll have to go through multiple features to use a specific one.- It's less supported in the market: It's true Blender is quite popular and perhaps, grows at a steady rate, however, it's still deferred in terms of widespread in the market as a lot of professionals tend to prefer other tools like Maya, After Effects or Cinema 4D. A potential reason is that these are hard to learn and are easily adaptable. --- ### Blender - Design your own dream - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Supun S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. If you are a beginner for the design industry and looking for free software with maximum features, Blender is the software that you are looking for. You can learn it free through free video tutorials and also you can use the software for free. Everyone can download and use this software. Therefore now you can make 3D designs or animations as your hobby. At first you may feel uncomfortable with the software but when you have a good practice with the software with the time, this will be great software for your need. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Blender is one of a best 3D designing and animation software I had have ever used. Since I did some 3D designing and animation projects in last few years, Blender helped me a lot on that. Most important advantage of this software is that the software is open source software. Therefore we can use all features of Blender fully FREE. There are no trials, demos, activations etc. Just download, install and use it freely. Setup of the installer is small in size. Other than 3D designing and animation, Blender can be used to do architectural works, video editing, VFX (Visual Effects), 2D designing and animations and much more graphic and animation related things. Blender can be used to make small computer games also. Many features are included in Blender to make a creative design or animation for the designer. Some of the features are texturing, UV unwrapping, rigging, simulation (fluid, smoke and particle), sculpting etc. Lot of works inside the software is designed to do with keyboard shortcuts to make the working process easier. There are many free video tutorials made for Blender in YouTube and many other websites (i.e. Blender Guru). Therefore Blender can be learnt yourself without any expense. No any prior knowledge about designing is required. You can begin from zero level with blender. #### Cons As Blender is multi-purpose software for design field, this can be little bit complicated for the beginners. It is very hard to access some functions through mouse pointer by going through drop down menus at every time. Since Blender has lot of keyboard shortcuts, we have to practice them. Then the functions can be accessed quickly. There are same keyboard shortcuts for different works when blender is running in specified mode. This can be a mess in beginning. There are some laggings can be seen when the software is doing CPU/GPU intensive processes like rendering and simulating, but it is rare. These types of bugs are fixed through newer updates. Blender does not have a powerful rendering engine when comparing with famous 3D animation software. #### Reasons for choosing Blender Blender is free and multi-functional than other software. #### Reasons for switching to Blender Blender is free and multi-functional. --- ### Great software , 0.1% issue . - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Taha a. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered You can make money from Blender after spending some lone time using it , you can design houses for people there is many websites which provides that service , and you will really just enjoy creating stuff maybe you will sell some but if you didnt you won’t feel bad about it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blender’s most attractive features is the user interface i mean when i first opened the software i was surprised how organized it is . It’s so easy to use i promise you will get used to it the first 3 days . I use it for almost everything i got addicted honestly everything i imagine i go into blender and just start making things up . Great product . #### Cons The software is great , you may face some issues during updating , you may like some update maybe you will hate it but i recommend you stick with one version unless the other version has more useful features which rarely happens . The customer services is good but not great you may wait a fee days till you get the answer . The in-software probleme is what i got from experience the rendering process is too much demanding some times my pc got turned off while rendering , this is why I recommend using a nvidia gpu . Aside from that the software is nearly perfect compared to others. --- ### Blender is the entry point to 3d art - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jeremy G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Games - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience has been incredible. Everything I know now about 3d art, I first learned through blender use. I learned with their animation tools, modeling tools, texturing tools, and rendering tools. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I love that blender is free, open source, and the entrance place for a lot of artists. It lends to such an open and fresh creative community of new developers and 3d artists. Blender is also an extremely performant renderer. #### Cons I think blenders animation tools could use work. They don't really match up to the industry standard like some of their other tools. --- ### Best of all time - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Josiah P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Amazing. I have no complaibts that haven't been addressed I the 10 years I have used this priceless software. Although it's primary focus is 3D I have found numerous uses for it beyond that. Anything from a full compositer/NLE editor to a scientific calculator. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love the speed and customizability that Blender offers. The price of "free forever" is unbeatable. The use cases are endless. And the community is extremely active and supportive. #### Cons I don't have much to complain about, but it is hard to keep up to date with the amount of updates. You to have to dig in deeper or ask for help if you start getting into preference version control. --- ### Blender - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It is a great software to creat a wonderful 3d models #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Free to use and open source.Easy to made a wonderful 3d models.Easy to add texture and painting.The realistic animationHave it's own render engine #### Cons It uses a lot of memory space and some times it need a long time to respond --- ### Blender 2018 Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mphatso S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use blender a lot in my work at College to make online products to help provide features to the patrons in our makerspace to help them find tools and crafting items quickly. Most recently, i used blender to make a 3D map of the space and it served my purposes extremely well because of the ease of implementation especially for low poly models and also the different lighting options that allowed me to make the final render output as close to the overall aesthetic of the makerspace as possible. It is an amazing product and it is always fun to use and play around with the hundreds of different options to get a final result that over delivers on quality. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I started using blender when i was about 13 years old. It was one of my first experiences in 3d rendering and animation and i was immediately struck by all the things you could do and all the amazing things you could. In its latest iteration, i love the extreme ease of use as well as how fast and easy it is to switch between special tools and be able to see all my options in a very uncultured but intuitive space. It also has a huge amount of packages and to allow a user to do work ranging from paper craft model preparation to Virtual Reality Scene creation in minutes. Right now i use it for 3D printing and VR experiences and especially love the packages that help me make sites like this: https://enter-tech-room.glitch.me/ . I also love most the different types of 3D file formats you can export and import and how you can package everything (animations, textures and skeletons) into single compact files like glb files which are especially useful for VR products. #### Cons Blender's large library of packages and open source nature can be both great but also very overwhelming. If you are a beginner there is so much you need to learn to be able to make any descent 3D models or satisfactorily edit a model you found elsewhere and make it ready for use in another system. The huge number of tools it has can also be pretty intimidating and if you don't want to go 100% into 3D design can seem like a waste of time to use because they require a lot of practice given how precise they are. This was the biggest barrier for me especially before the latest release that has made it seem a lot more user friendly but it still has a quite a fair barrier to entry. --- ### The best 3D tool for artists, continuosly growing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Fabio R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Blender3D is a software you can rely on. It never crashes, even if you stress it with big renders and enormous models. It can handle them with no problems. Blender has become our internal go-to solution when we need something related to 3D and animation. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blender3D is an experience. The software is extremely fast in all its operations and the tools are well thought and extended almost every two months. It is a software that grows so fast you will have trouble following it! The community around Blender is great too, and you'll always find help and suggestions while using the software. For us, the best part was the ability to customize and extend the software using Python plugins. Blender exposes all its functionalities to plugin developers and you can create real amazing things and extend its capabilities with almost no limits. #### Cons Plugin development (even if it has been improved in the latest versions) can be difficult sometimes, especially the debug part. #### Reasons for choosing Blender It is Open Source, has a great community and it is ever growing! --- ### Exciting blender program - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: AMJAD M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Animation - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered More than two years experience with blender program #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy and comfortable and many tools and options #### Cons Tools and options user interface easy and convenient --- ### One of the finest 3d software out in the market - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ayon S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Motion Pictures and Film - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Blender is FREE!!! and as they say, it will always be... So you are at no risk, it took sometime for me to get used to it, although I'm still learning, it has been a rewarding experience. Thanks to those wise people who decided to keep it FREE and open source yet Blender is so powerful that many professional studios has started implementing it into their workflow. Today Blender is like the Swiss Knife in the world of 3D, excelling in every departments of it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blender, at present the name itself gives relief to all those aspiring 3D and VFX artists, who feel crippled by the price tag that comes with Maya, Cinema 4D, 3DS Max, etc. Blender is capable of doing most of the 3D and Animation works one will ever need for FREE....!!!! This is absolutely hard to believe at first. A free and open source software might give a vibe of being compromised or cut down versions, but not Blender. This software is a beast in its field, providing everything from 2D animation, VFX design, 3D Modelling, Character rigging, Landscape Design, Texturing, Compositing and what not. The latest version 2.8 is a massive update which has a redesigned interface turning Blender into a beautiful and intuitive piece of software plus has a lots of new features making the overall process much easier for anyone from beginner to professionals. #### Cons Blender offers a massive set of features which comes with a learning curve. This might hold you for a moment but when you see what amazing things other people are creating with Blender, you will force yourself to learn the software and once you get hold of it, it will be so unbelievably rewarding that you will never regret learning this fantastic friend who will stay with you for ever, for FREE!!!! --- ### A Versatile 3D Design Software. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Abdennasser Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Blender has been fun and rewarding to me. Despite the learning curve and occasional software bugs, I was able to create most of what I wanted. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I find Blender to be an exceptional 3D design software, and one of its most appealing aspects is that it's free and open-source. The diversity of features it offers, from modeling to rendering and physics simulations, provides me with immense creative possibilities. The ability to add Add-ons that introduce new features to Blender is another standout feature that enhances its functionality.Additionally, Blender is a goldmine when it comes to learning resources. #### Cons Blender has a bit of a learning curve, and I found the user interface a bit tricky when I first started using it. Occasionally, I've come across some bugs, and there have been instances where my PC froze while running Blender. --- ### Amazingly powerful - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Blender has been amazing as my software for 3D animations. The power that it offers while remaining completely free is excellent. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Coming off of a trial of the expensive 3DS Max software, I was amazed at how fully-featured and - in some ways - better Blender was as a free 3D modeling and animation software. The biggest pro of Blender is that it is free and open-source. Despite this, Blender receives constant and game-changing updates. Blender's complete UI overhaul and introduction of the Cycles renderer are 2 recent examples. This makes me very confident in the software, as I know it won't become outdated any time soon. #### Cons Blender has a completely different methodology for adding and manipulating objects compared to Autodesk Maya/3DS Max, SFM, etc. This isn't necessarily bad - you can get used to it, and it works fine. However, I do wish there was a preset that made Blender perform more like Autodesk or SFM. I also wish the 3D cursor could be improved, as it currently feels very finicky to position and unintuitive. Maybe a preview window or some distance information can be relayed to demonstrate where the 3D cursor is relative to my curretn viewport. #### Reasons for switching to Blender Pricing ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/blender-profile/reviews/?page=2) ---