canvas vs HMCL

canvas

Shader-Based Minecraft Renderer for Fabric (by vram-guild)

Minecraft Shaders

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HMCL

A Minecraft Launcher which is multi-functional, cross-platform and popular (by HMCL-dev)

Javafx minecraft-launcher Minecraft

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hmcl.huangyuhui.net

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canvas		HMCL
	Project
3	Mentions	4
413	Stars	6,323
1.5%	Growth	2.0%
5.0	Activity	9.5
30 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Java	Language	Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

canvas

Posts with mentions or reviews of canvas. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-28.

Having an issue with shaders and mods (read comment)
2 projects | /r/feedthebeast | 28 May 2021

for forge, there really isn't an alternative. for fabric, there's iris and canvas.
why you guys always hatin the mods??? 🤨🤨
1 project | /r/okbuddyretard | 17 Feb 2021

yes i use canvas renderer (i am the chad woj*ck) how could you tell?
I made fake shaders into my base using photoshop
1 project | /r/Minecraft | 24 Jan 2021

Another subtle one that doesn't kill your FPS is Canvas Renderer

HMCL

Posts with mentions or reviews of HMCL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-14.

Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2023
HMCL working on steam deck!
1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 19 Oct 2022
SIGMA 5.0 WORKING NO CLICKBAIT I SWEAR HERE TOUTURIAL links in comments
1 project | /r/SigmaClient | 21 Apr 2022
Best Cracked Minecraft Launchers for playing modded minecraft and playing with modpacks other than TLauncher?
1 project | /r/PiratedGames | 26 Dec 2021

With Hello Minecraft launcher you can download mods(pack) . It’s Chinese.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing canvas and HMCL you can also consider the following projects:

Iris - A modern shaders mod for Minecraft compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs

PojavLauncher - A Minecraft: Java Edition Launcher for Android and iOS based on Boardwalk. This repository contains source code for Android platform.

Satin - A Fabric library to help with shader usage

MCinaBox - MCinaBox - A Minecraft: Java Edition Launcher for Android. An Encapsulation of [CosineMath's BoatApp](https://github.com/AOF-Dev/BoatApp).

ShaderEditor - Android app to create GLSL shaders and use them as live wallpaper

Pojav launcher - A Minecraft: Java Edition Launcher for Android and iOS based on Boardwalk. This repository contains source code for iOS/iPadOS platform.

MinecraftForge - Modifications to the Minecraft base files to assist in compatibility between mods. New Discord: https://discord.minecraftforge.net/

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

Minecraft-3ds-shader - The Source Code of the Minecraft 3ds Edition default in-game shader

minecraft-vortex-launcher - Fast, lightweight and easy to use Minecraft launcher

Satin - A 3D Graphics Framework built on Apple's Metal

betacraft-launcher - A launcher for Minecraft focused on legacy versions of the game