diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 433490fc05662..5c68dd4ed68d1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -126,26 +126,34 @@ unused_qualifications = "warn"
 
 [features]
 default = [
+  "default_no_render",
+  "bevy_anti_aliasing",
+  "bevy_core_pipeline",
+  "bevy_gizmos",
+  "bevy_gltf",
+  "bevy_pbr",
+  "bevy_render",
+  "bevy_sprite_render",
+  "bevy_ui_render",
+]
+
+# All default features except for rendering
+default_no_render = [
   "std",
   "async_executor",
   "android-game-activity",
   "android_shared_stdcxx",
   "animation",
+  "bevy_animation",
   "bevy_asset",
   "bevy_audio",
   "bevy_color",
-  "bevy_core_pipeline",
   "bevy_core_widgets",
-  "bevy_anti_aliasing",
   "bevy_gilrs",
-  "bevy_gizmos",
-  "bevy_gltf",
   "bevy_input_focus",
   "bevy_log",
   "bevy_mesh_picking_backend",
-  "bevy_pbr",
   "bevy_picking",
-  "bevy_render",
   "bevy_scene",
   "bevy_image",
   "bevy_mesh",
@@ -154,12 +162,10 @@ default = [
   "bevy_shader",
   "bevy_sprite",
   "bevy_sprite_picking_backend",
-  "bevy_sprite_render",
   "bevy_state",
   "bevy_text",
   "bevy_ui",
   "bevy_ui_picking_backend",
-  "bevy_ui_render",
   "bevy_window",
   "bevy_winit",
   "custom_cursor",
diff --git a/docs/cargo_features.md b/docs/cargo_features.md
index 6d65725a17a00..fbdf5b21a90f8 100644
--- a/docs/cargo_features.md
+++ b/docs/cargo_features.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ The default feature set enables most of the expected features of a game engine,
 |custom_cursor|Enable winit custom cursor support|
 |debug|Enable collecting debug information about systems and components to help with diagnostics|
 |default_font|Include a default font, containing only ASCII characters, at the cost of a 20kB binary size increase|
+|default_no_render|All default features except for rendering|
 |hdr|HDR image format support|
 |ktx2|KTX2 compressed texture support|
 |multi_threaded|Enables multithreaded parallelism in the engine. Disabling it forces all engine tasks to run on a single thread.|