Blender
blender/blenderReviewed by Radar
What it does
Blender is a free 3D creation program. You can model objects, build and animate characters, run physics simulations, render images and films, track camera motion and edit video. It is used by hobbyists, students and professional studios. This GitHub page is a mirror of the source code with no downloads. The official Windows installer (Windows Package Manager ID BlenderFoundation.Blender) is a 349 MB file, and Radar estimates the program needs about 349 MB to 1 GB of disk space.
How easy it is to install
A · download and open · Windows
There is an official 349 MB Windows installer (winget BlenderFoundation.Blender) that you download and open; the Python found by the automatic check is only for the developers' code-formatting setup in pyproject.toml, so you do not install it yourself.
Numbers on GitHub
- Stars
- 21,485on Oct 31, 2026
- Downloads
- —all releases
- Growth
- +225stars in 6 days
Stars over time
Facts
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- You need to install
- Nothing extra
- To build from source
- Python
- Disk space
- 349 MB–1.0 GB · from the installer
- Accounts or keys
- None
- Cost
- Free · Licensed under the GNU GPL according to the COPYING and README files.
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later (Copyleft)
- Last update
- Nov 1, 2026
This GitHub repository is a mirror; its stars do not show the project's full popularity.
Risk signals
No risk signals found by the checks.
What Radar could not check
- Exact disk space after installing: Radar's range of 349 MB to about 1 GB is estimated from the installer size, not measured on a real install
- The macOS and Linux versions offered on blender.org, since Radar only looked at the Windows installer
- How smoothly heavy scenes and rendering run on your graphics card
- What add-ons you install later download or run on your computer