PolyMC VS Iris

Compare PolyMC vs Iris and see what are their differences.

PolyMC

A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC) (by PolyMC)

Iris

A modern shaders mod for Minecraft compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs (by IrisShaders)
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PolyMC Iris
202 134
1,743 3,096
0.6% 3.6%
6.8 8.6
7 days ago 5 days ago
C++ Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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PolyMC

Posts with mentions or reviews of PolyMC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-27.

Iris

Posts with mentions or reviews of Iris. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PolyMC and Iris you can also consider the following projects:

multimc-pkgbuild - PKGBUILD for actually getting MultiMC on Arch.

Starlight - Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

MultiMC5 - A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once [Moved to: https://github.com/MultiMC/Launcher]

LambDynamicLights - A dynamic lights mod for Minecraft with Fabric.

GDLauncher - GDLauncher is a simple, yet powerful Minecraft custom launcher with a strong focus on the user experience

sodium-fabric - A fork of Sodium adding Iris compatibility. EXPERIMENTAL AND UNSTABLE, DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THERE ARE RENDERING ISSUES, BUGS, AND CRASHES.

ATLauncher - ATLauncher is a Launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different ModPacks to allow you to download and install ModPacks easily and quickly.

Indium - A JavaScript development environment for Emacs

ManyMC - 📦 A familiar Minecraft Launcher with native support for macOS arm64 (M1)

sodium-extra-fabric - Features that shouldn't be in Sodium.

PollyMC - DRM-free Prism Launcher fork with support for custom auth servers.

Indium - Sodium addon providing support for the Fabric Rendering API, based on Indigo