# Nuke

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Nuke and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Nuke as a go-to tool for visual effects work and praise its color editing. No recurring caveats came up in the quotes.

## Why people recommend it

- Go-to tool for daily work (2 comments): "We use Nuke for this purpose and I really like it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628197)) "Nuke has become my go to tool for this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628228))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Apple Motion](https://hackerapproved.com/p/motion.md): 17 recommend
- [CorridorKey 2.0](https://hackerapproved.com/p/corridorkey-2-0.md): 17 recommend
- [Adobe After Effects](https://hackerapproved.com/p/adobe-after-effects.md): 14 recommend
- [ntsc-rs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ntsc-rs.md): 14 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.foundry.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Nuke", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nuke/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).