Besides kineme.net, there are many other third-party Quartz Composer plugins available, including:
- v002 --- vade's Plugins
- MachineCodex Mandelbrot plugin
- Google's QC Plugins
- Blinkenposer, the Blinkenlight's QC Plugin
- SPK-StringToImageStructure"
- ORNL.gov's Webkit to Image
- Stackunderflow.com's LCD and Keyboard Backlight QC Plugin
- Dicom Open Source Medical Imaging QC Plugin
- Deadbeef.org TCP Socket Reader Plugin
- Darknoon's Port of Yellowtail, an interactive gestural performance environment originally by Golan Levin
- BDF Pixel-Font Renderer by Anatol Ulrich
- ACProcessorSuite by Michael Markert
- Image PixelS by Matthias Oostrik
- Open Emu QC by Anton Marini and Dan Winckler
- CoGe PluginsWebKit, PSD, PS Brushes, BeatDetektor and more
- LuaScript Plugin
- Video Peggy Plugin. See Video Peggy at Evil Mad Scientist
- Månsteri Plugins (New OSC Sender, Animata OSC)
- Core Plot Graph Plotting Plugin
- ACNexusQC by Michael Markert --- Bluetooth sensor based on Arduino.
- Sentient Worlds Patches
- QCPlugins.com
- Tom Butterworth (aka bangnoise) Plugins
- Dieter Wimberger's DataMatrix 2D Barcode plugin
- MouseDeltas
- Tom Gidden's Streaming Twitter Patch (source)
- 1024 QC Plugins (Tone Generator, GL Cubic Curve, GL Circle, Wave Generator, Particle Cloud, Network Send+Receive
- hexler.net OSC receiver
- Rob Duarte's QC Utils (rdqcutils) --- Swap Numbers, Scale Number, CSV Import
- QCMono Plugin Run Mono in Quartz Composer
- Strata QC plugin to break images down into wavelet scales
- GhostWriter Image writing plugin
- CameraObscura Control tethered camera shooting
- MacRuby Execute MacRuby
- SAPO Broker Client
