Blessing Skin
Blessing Skin is a free, open-source PHP service for hosting Minecraft skins.
What Blessing Skin is
Blessing Skin is a free, open-source PHP service for hosting Minecraft skins. Players can choose skins and capes for game characters and make them visible to others in Minecraft. An account can contain multiple players, and users can browse a skin library, like skins, and share them with friends. The service works with mods such as CustomSkinLoader to display selected skins and capes in game. Blessing Skin is self-hosted: server archives and an installation guide are provided for web-server deployment. The guide lists Nginx, Apache, and Caddy as supported; IIS is unsupported. PHP 8.1.0 or later is required, but stable version 6.0.2 does not support PHP 8.2.0 or later. Setup requires generating an app key for session encryption. The FAQ describes AuthMe integration through a plugin. Uploaded textures are stored with hashed filenames and no extension. The online previewer does not support Elytra. The free plan is free, billed free forever, with no ads or subscription fees.
Good
- Free forever with no ads or subscription fees.
- One account can contain multiple players.
- Users can like and share library skins.
- Works with skin mods such as CustomSkinLoader.
- Supports Nginx, Apache, and Caddy.
Watch out
- Self-hosting requires web-server deployment.
- IIS is unsupported.
- Stable version 6.0.2 does not support PHP 8.2.0 or later.
- Online previewer does not support Elytra.
Who it suits
It suits Minecraft players or server operators who want to host and share skins and capes, especially those comfortable deploying a PHP application themselves. Check the PHP and web-server requirements before setup.
Verdict
Blessing Skin offers skin hosting and sharing without a subscription, but it requires a compatible self-hosted setup. Its version-specific PHP limitation and missing Elytra preview support are worth checking first.
Plans and prices
From Blessing Skin's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Minecraft skin and cape upload/hosting · no ads · no subscription fees · free forever |
The facts
Each one read from Blessing Skin's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Authentication APIs
- Version 4.1 documentation records JWT and OAuth2 API authentication support; later release notes say JWT authentication was removed in 6.0.0.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Development history
- A 2016 developer account describes the early project as PHP code using AJAX, database abstraction, URL rewriting and generated skin JSON endpoints.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The manual provides installation, FAQ, configuration, manual-build, upgrade, changelog, version and plugin-development sections.checked 15 Oct 2026
- HTTP API
- The changelog describes an HTTP Blessing Skin API introduced as experimental and subject to incompatible changes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integration
- The FAQ says AuthMe can be integrated by downloading and configuring the AuthMe Integration plugin from Plugins Market.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Plugins provide integrations with AuthMe and Discuz.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The project currently supports English, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License
- Blessing Skin Server is released under the MIT License.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: deployment expertise
- The community release post says deployment is not suitable for everyone and assumes some experience deploying PHP websites.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Elytra preview
- The FAQ says the online previewer does not currently support Elytra.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: game visibility
- The server application only supplies skin data; players still need a compatible skin mod or client integration to see skins in Minecraft.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: maturity
- FAUN.dev reports that version 6.0.2 shipped in June 2022 and that later work appeared as commits rather than tagged releases.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: support
- FAUN.dev scores community support at 50/100 and says English-language help is thinner than Chinese-language help.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Mod compatibility
- The service works with skin mods such as CustomSkinLoader to show selected skins and capes in game.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Multiple players
- One account can own multiple Minecraft player names.checked 15 Oct 2026
- PHP extensions
- Listed extensions include OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer, PDO, Mbstring, Tokenizer, GD, XML, Ctype, JSON, fileinfo, zip and Imagick.checked 15 Oct 2026
- PHP requirement
- The current repository README requires PHP 8.1.0 or newer.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Plugin API
- The changelog lists a Filters API, service-provider registration and plugin enable/disable Artisan commands.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Plugin system
- Blessing Skin has a plugin architecture with a plugin marketplace and can add site functions through installed plugins.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Praise: extensibility
- The community description highlights the plugin system, plugin marketplace and integrations as major strengths.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Praise: value
- FAUN.dev gives the project a 100/100 cost-of-ownership score and describes it as free to run with a small PHP host and database.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Preview limitation
- The FAQ says the online previewer does not currently support Elytra.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Product
- Blessing Skin is an open-source PHP service for uploading and hosting Minecraft skins.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Project ownership
- The repository and community post attribute copyright to The Blessing Skin Team from 2016 onward.checked 15 Oct 2026
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