KodeLife Alternatives

KodeLife is described as 'Fast, lightweight, live-coding IDE for shader development. It's available natively across Mac, Windows and Linux desktops and supports all flavors of OpenGL GLSL, as well as platform specific shading languages such as the Metal Shading Language and DirectX HLSL' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to KodeLife, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and iPhone apps. The best KodeLife alternative is SHADERed, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to KodeLife are Shader Editor, Shadertoy, The Book of Shaders and Shade - Pro Shader Editor.

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  1. Shader Learning is an interactive browser-based platform for learning GPU programming through practical exercises. It offers over 250 challenges in GLSL and HLSL, allowing users to write and test shaders directly in the browser without any setup.

    17 Shader Learning alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Shaderific is the mobile shader development tool for iOS. Get started with OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenGL ES 3.0 shader development on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch today. Create your own vertex and fragment shaders using the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) and compile them on your...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  3. ShaderTool provides a flexible and editable node-powered pipeline that allows you to write shaders without also having to have written an engine. Use the integrated code editor to directly write shader code in either HLSL (DirectX) or GLSL (OpenGL).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  4. Shaders - Shader editor is an app which let you view, create and share shaders with other users. Shaders are little graphics programs which run on the GPU.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  5. Synthclipse is a GLSL shader prototyping tool. It makes possible to fast develop all kinds of shaders: Fragment (FS), Vertex (VS), Geometry (GS), Tessellation (TS) and Compute (CS). Shader development can be done using compatible with Fragmentarium and Shadertoy (but limited to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Shader Workship is an interactive GLSL fragment shader editor inspired by ShaderToy and built with Qt.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. ProtoShade is a GLSL:ES Shader Prototyping Utility for Android. Code shaders on mobile devices while a viewport renders the results transparently in the background.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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