--- title: Substance Designer Reviews meta\_title: 'Substance Designer Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 56 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Substance Designer works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 56 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: 3D Design url: https://www.g2.com/categories/3d-design --- # Substance Designer Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Substance Designer but has limited features. Are you part of the Substance Designer team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Substance Designer is a node-based non-destructive application for creating materials. Edit complete texture sets fast with the non-linear workflow and see your changes apply simultaneously to all your outputs. Unleash the power of Substance Designer and focus on what really matters: your art. * * * Seller [Adobe](https://www.g2.com/sellers/adobe) Discussions [Substance Designer Community](https://www.g2.com/products/substance-designer/discuss) Languages Supported English, Chinese (Simplified) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Vincent GAULT (Tech Artist / Community Manager chez Allegorithmic) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/substance-designer/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Blender](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Blender") Blender 4.6/5(319) ](https://www.g2.com/products/blender/reviews) [ ![3ds Max Design](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "3ds Max Design") 3ds Max Design 4.3/5(284) ](https://www.g2.com/products/3ds-max-design/reviews) [ ![Maya](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Maya") Maya 4.3/5(267) ](https://www.g2.com/products/maya/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/substance-designer/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 56 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Ariana Jose V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ariana Jose V.") AV Ariana Jose V. Community Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/27/2018 "Excellent tool " 5/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? I like that you can take items and change the texture and image in one spot. Learning how to make textures from scratch is a phenomenal tool when you may not be best at photo manipulation, but can learn procedural textures quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? There's not much documentation about the more technical features but that's all i really like the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Substance Designer: He can nearly make everything you can imagine, you just need patience to learn to use the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Substance designer provide us the capacity to create from scratch differents materials and textures , that wee need for our different projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/29/2018 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Julien M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Julien M.") JM Julien M. Numeric director Computer Games Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/29/2017 "Substance Designer , the ultimate material creator" 4/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? The Node-based system for the creation of material . His procedural and non destructive workflow. I'm liking his limitless capabilities , we can create everything. I also like , the reactivity of the support , and the very often upadates of the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? It's a very complicated software for the new learners . It's required many many time to understand his functioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Substance Designer: Despite the time it's required to understand , Substance Designer is a very great tools . He can nearly make everything you can imagine . Enjoy it ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Substance designer provide us the capacity to create from scratch differents materials and textures , that wee need for our different projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![April M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "April M.") AM April M. Scheduling Coordinator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/17/2018 "Could be more user friendly" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? Ability to crop and customize a design any way you like to. Ability to filter images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? The system is not as user friendly as it seems. The instructions are a bit difficult to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Substance Designer: Wanting to give your clients a better experience and the next level of great for the future.ï Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Ability to give our clients a enjoyable experience in a 3d manner when filling in their applications. Making them want to go through the process in a fun way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![H N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "H N.") HN H N. Interior Designer Architecture & Planning Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/16/2018 "Substance Designer is a great For your texturing needs " 4.5/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? The program is great for everyone including no experienced professionals. It is simple to use and learn. The outcome is wonderful a great tool to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? I only have 1 screen and think that 2 screens would be beneficial for ultimate sucess to view and work in a productive way . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Substance Designer: A great tool to have with simplicity and ease Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? The way you can create realistic textures is the most valuable aspect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Alejandro F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alejandro F.") AF Alejandro F. Technical Artist Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/25/2018 "step in substance designer" 5/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? I really enjoyed the node graph editor during my first experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? I think that the import settings takes too many steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? improves the surfacing process in 3D development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Games](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Games") UC Verified User in Computer Games Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/28/2017 "Great baker" 5/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? I tried a lot of texture/bake soft and this one can bake really heavy meshes, all maps in one pass. Without cage! Also, non-destructive workflows became real with great help tools like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? Be more perfect?... WHERE GOD DAMN MY "BEAUTIFY" BUTTON?!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Substance Designer: Improve automatization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? No problems, we have now a non-destructive texturing workflow and keep our materials fully procedural. It means we can tweak everything to death (I mean the project end) and share our materials with other! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Bruno A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bruno A.") BA Bruno A. VFX Artist Computer Games Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/9/2016 "Amazing piece of software" 5/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? Fast, responsive, made specifically for game development, fits perfectly into the game dev pipeline. Replaces several more expensive tools. Support is very responsive and they quickly address the issues brought up by the users. Very easy to use, but the tool is also incredibly deep. The user interface is a great example for others to follow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? If you want to dive very, very deep into the tool you'll see there's not much documentation about the more technical features, but that hasn't stopped me at all. If you're savvy and like to tinker around, you'll be just fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Substance Designer: Download materials created by experienced users to understand their process. This will help you! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? The tool is perfect to bring consistency to the art pipeline. Empowers people to create good work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/11/2017 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Carlos D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Carlos D.") CD Carlos D. Freelance Concept Artist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/24/2017 "Substance Designer" 5/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? Substance Designer is the best option to create procedural textures/maps from scratch in a non destructive workflow, a must have for any texture artist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? The UI can be a little annoying at the beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Substance Designer: Substance Designer and Substance painter is the standard in PBR texturing solution for videogames and film without being super expensive. Also you can buy the software from Allegorithmic website or from steam, the license is really flexible offering subscription and permanent license. There's a lot of free resources from tutorials to amazing materials and masks and other amazing stuff for the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Texture creation and maps baking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Adamzy L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adamzy L.") AL Adamzy L. Computer and Web Designing Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/16/2018 "3D fiber design" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? The 3D integrated functionality and user friendly with point straight animation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? Just the fact that I can not really say I dislike this app yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Substance Designer: I highly recommend substance Designer to all the 3D lovers. To embrace this marvelous app for there projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? 3D render and animation. Modeling agency designs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Entertainment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Entertainment") UE Verified User in Entertainment Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/30/2017 "Substance Makes Texturing A Breeze" 5/5 What do you like best about Substance Designer? Substance makes real time texture editing a breeze. It's a great program that has simplicity in mind and makes it a great program for everyone from beginners to professionals in the industry. Learning how to make textures from scratch is a phenomenal tool when you may not be best at photo manipulation, but can learn procedural textures quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Substance Designer? I would like to see some consolidation in the interface, it's a great program but unless you are working with 2+ screens the interface and different menu's that are key to success can sometimes hinder your view/work size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Substance Designer: Substance Painter is another sister fantastic program that you can switch between from. If you are using photos to create textures, CrazyBump also makes normals an ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Substance Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? The ability to make realistic textures in a short time has drastically improved work flow and timelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Substance Designer? 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