The Best 16 Autodesk Smoke Alternatives

  • Natron

    Natron is an open source, cross platform nodal compositing application. It is built around industry standard open source tech such as OpenFX, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO and OpenImageIO.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • NUKE

    NUKE is a powerful compositing application that delivers unparalleled speed, an efficient multi-channel scanline rendering engine, and a first-class feature set that is unrivalled in the desktop market.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Apple Motion

    motion is a compositing application used to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video and film production, and 2d and 3d compositing for visual effects. motion is now included in the final cut pro x video post-production suite.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Liconcomp

    Liconcomp allows live content compositing to display screens for digital signage, scoreboards, LED installations, .

    Free Open Source Windows

  • ButtleOFX

    ButtleOFX is a simple, user-friendly and open source compositing software. It is based on TuttleOFX, an open source, modular and sustainable image processing architecture.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • ParticleIllusion

    particleIllusion 3.0: award-winning standalone particle effects application that enables you to quickly and easily add a huge variety of particle effects to your images, animation, or video.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Adobe After Effects

  • Solar

    Lightstream Solar is a new GPU-accelerated high-end compositor for VFX work. The software provides a node and tree-based workflow, and offers the range of tools one...

    Commercial Windows

  • Shotbrander

    Shotbrander.com uses industry-standard visual effect pipeline on the back-end to deliver highly customizable videos. With this tool high quality branded video content is...

    Freemium

  • Catalyst Edit

    In video, focus is critical. Catalyst Edit focuses on 4K, Sony RAW, and HD video editing so you can focus on your creativity. Deliver your most stunning video...

    Commercial