Addons/Extensions

These are my favorite addons so far. Alternatively there is a curated list on github of awesome Blender add-ons and tools.

General

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

Fav	Name	Notes
	AssetGen	automates the tasks to get a game assets ready for video games from an High Poly model.
	Asset Creation Toolset	Tool collection for exporting game-ready models from Blender

Name	Notes
Modern Primitive	Non-Destructive Primitives
GarmentTool	designed to simplify process of making simulation ready cloth meshes inside Blender.
SpeedFlow	Speedflow is a group of modals that allows you to improve dramatically your workflow for modeling. Adds visual, modal dialogues for easier application of various modifiers.
MESHmachine	focuses on hard surface work without subdivision surfaces
MiraTools	Various modelling tools
HardOps	Non-destructive hard surface modelling
QBlocker	is an interactive object creation tool for Blender.
TubeTool:	generate tubing between two selected polygons.
Building Tool:	A collection of integrated tools to quickly model suburban buildings.
ScribbleGen	barbed wire, brick wall, cables, hanging cables, chains, cobwebs and more.
Real Damage	Creates damage on objects (concrete)

Name	Notes	Price
Softwrap	Wrap an existing object softly over a scanned geometry.	40$
Tesselator	Automatized Remeshing via a simulated a particle system that can be guided by grease pencil.	8,50$
Retopo MT	Tool-Collection for manual retopo.
Quad Remesher	Automatic retopologize of cylindrical objects
Retopoflow	The oldest and best tool for retopo. Also the most expensive.	86€
Tris-Quads-Ex	Converts tris to quads with a better topology.

Name	Notes
Brush Manager:	an add-on for Blender that helps you to create custom brushes, store them in a file and organize the library of various categories of brushes.
Rune	Another Brush manager

Name	Notes
Sverchok	is a parametric tool for architects and designers. Github
Sorcar	Procedural modelling in Blender using Node Editor. Github
Modular Tree	allows the creation of realistic trees with the node editor.

Name	Notes
SDF Presets	A toolset of nodes for creating and manipulating signed distance fields in Blender's geometry nodes.
Geometry Script	is a robust yet easy to use Python API for creating Geometry Nodes with code.
Sci-fi HUD elements

Name	Notes
Procedural Building Generator
Buildify
Knitting Generator

Name	Notes
❤ HairNet	use the edge loops of a mesh object to create guide hairs of a hair system.
HairTool	will help you generate hair card with uv's and much more.

Name	Notes
Mio3 UV	free support addon
UniV	Blender Addon for UV Editor which aims to cover all sorts of operators for working with UV
DreamUV	a collection of tools that allow you to manipulate UVs in the 3D viewport.
TexTools	a free addon for Blender 3D with a set of professional UV and Texturing tools. Github
UV-Packer:	Free UV packing tool for Blender
UVShotPacker	Fast UV island packing add-on for Blender. (9$)
Texel Density Checker 3	Calculate Texel Density for model for different texture size (includes non-squared textures and custom size)

Name	Notes
Ucupaint	manage texture layers for the Eevee and Cycles renderers.
Texture Synthesis GUI	A GUI for embark studios Texture Synthesis API.
b3dsdf	a toolkit of 2D/3D signed distance functions and operators nodegroups for the shader editor
Photo to PBR Texture	Node setup to convert a texture image to a PBR texture set.
DeepBump	AI based bump/normal map generator
Material Map Generator	A Blender plugin to easily generate Material Maps from an Image Texture with one click using Material-Map_generator by Joey Ballentine.

Name	Notes
Vertex Oven	Bake ambient occlusion to vertex colors.
Bakelab	Eases the render to texture process.
Auto Reload Images	Reloads images.

Name	Notes
EasyHDRI	helps you to setup your HDRI images quickly.
DNOISE	Rapid AI Denoising for Blender
Pro-Lighting Studio	helps you produce gorgeous results, with dozens of interesting lighting suggestions for your model. (127$)
BakeMaster	Latest baking tool
EasyBake	Texture baking UI for Blender
BakeLab2	Another textures baking tool. Video
Bake to vertex color	This addon enables you to bake passes like diffuse, emission, ambient occlusion etc to vertex colors. Video
GrabDoc	add-on structured around creating a simple and streamlined method of exporting baked maps for trim sheets, tileables or even alphas.
BlendNet	OpenSource network rendering solution for cloud rendering. Download
Malt3D	Malt is a fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration.
Lens Sim	simulate camera lenses based on real-world optical data

Name	Notes
Rigify	Comes with Blender Tutorial
Rigify to Unity	Converts Rigify rig to Humanoid compatible (Deletes unnecessary bones and controls)
GameRig	auto riggin for games addon on top of Rigify.
Kineamtic Tool for Blender	Quality of Life addon for animators and riggers

Name	Notes
Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning	Transfer perfect skin weights easily.
Lazy Weight Tool	Editing skin weights in a table.
Adjust Vertex Weights	lets you easily adjust the weights of selected vertices by dragging the mouse up and down.

Name	Notes
Ultimate Animator Bundle	Collection of various animation tools
Mesh Tension	Create stretch- and squeeze-folds.
Animation Layers	Edit animation or mocap data using a standard animation layers UI and workflow
Bonedynamics Pro	add physics to bones.
Simplicage	generate physics-ready (through Blender cloth physics) cages for your models.
Horde	Crowd System Tools
Animaide	DEPRECATED Collection of various animation tools

Name	Notes
Faceit	Facial Expressions And Performance Capture (60-215$)
Expression Capture	a windows application that allows you to extract facial expression, needs ARKit Blendshapes.
X-Pose Picker	Genrates Animation layouts
Rhubarb Addon	automatically creates mouth animation from voice recordings.
Lip Sync	Automatic lip sync for your Blender models.

Name	Notes
Text Effects	animate 3D text in Blender
Animax	a procedural animation system for Blender
Animation Nodes	a node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics.

Name	Notes
ACT: Game Asset Creation Toolset	Tools for easy create and export low-poly game assets.
MeshSync	Syncs meshes between Blender and Unity. Blender Plugin
Better Fbx Importer & Exporter	Much more comprehensive FBX exporter than the blender internal
Blender To Unity FBX Exporter:	Exported FBX files are imported into Unity with the correct rotations and scales. My fork with additional settings and features
Blender Photogrammetry	allows conversion and processing between a number of photogrammetry formats like COLMAP, Meshroom and Blender's motion tracker.
blender-osm	OpenStreetMap and Terrain for Blender (Free/DonateWare)
BlenderGIS	OpenSource alternative to blender-osm. Video-Tutorial
MapsModelsImporter	Imports 3D data from Google Maps via RenderDocs.
Sketchfab	Import models directly from Sketchfab.
Embark Blender Tools	Export and other tools for game dev.

Name	Notes
EasyBPY	A wrapper for the Blender Python API to make it more intuitive for beginners.
Search-For-Online-Reference	Context menue entry for searching online for current or selected word.
pistiwique_pie_text_editor	Various debug functions for the blender text editor.
Face bpy module	Adds bpy code completion via a non-functioning bpy module.