OpenGL Alternatives (2 Similar Tools as of December, 2024)

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According to people there are many software similar to it, and the best alternative to OpenGL is WebGL which is both free and open source. Other highly recommended applications include Vulkan (Free).

In total people have suggested 2 alternatives to OpenGL that share similarities by use case and feature set.

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WebGL

WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0. WebGL is exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Allowing developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.0 to easily understand and recognize WebGL as a Shader-based API using GLSL, with constructs that are semantically similar to those of the underlying OpenGL ES 2.0 API. The WebGL API stays very close to the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification, with some concessions made for what developers expect out of memory-managed languages such as JavaScript.

Free & Open Source

Graphic Design Web Development Web

5 Alternatives

0 Pros & Cons

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Vulkan

Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.

Free & Open Source

2 Alternatives

0 Pros & Cons

How Are These OpenGL Alternatives Generated?

Information found on this page is crowd-sourced by the community and contains the most agreed upon OpenGL alternatives. You can use this information to find similar software to OpenGL for specific platforms with various pricing options and licenses. Anyone that have previously used OpenGL can suggest alternatives, vote on the accuracy of other users claims, and help more people in the process of doing so.

This page was last updated on Sun 23 Jan 2022 (3 weeks, 1 day ago).