The Best 33 Paintbrush Alternatives

  • Pinta icon

    Pinta

    pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after paint.net . its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on linux, mac, and windows.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Mono

    Layers support Lightweight
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    MyBrushes

    mybrushes paint for mac app allows you to paint on infinite canvas and playback whole drawing. mybrushes is a good alternative to microsoft paint and apple mac paint.

    Commercial

  • Tux Paint icon

    Tux Paint

    Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku

  • PaintStar icon

    PaintStar

    PaintStar is a versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context...

    Free Windows

  • JugiPaint icon

    JugiPaint

    JugiPaint is a painting software with diverse sets of tools for various types of illustration work. It provides many standard digital painting features like layers...

    Commercial Windows

  • Gpaint icon

    Gpaint

    gpaint (aka GNU Paint), a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop Environment. gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP, it is just a simple drawing package based on xpaint, along the lines of Microsoft Paint.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Gnome Paint icon

    Gnome Paint

    gnome-paint is a simple, easy to use paint program for GNOME. It is inspired by MS-Paint.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Paint XP for Windows 7 icon

    Paint XP for Windows 7

    Standalone old MS Paint program that allows you to get your old XP Paint interface in Windows 7. One of the major user interface changes in Windows 7 is that the...

    Free Windows

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    Paint +++

    Paint +++aims to fill the need for a basic, streamlined, and Mac-native image editor. Whether you need to quickly crop a photo, add some text to an image, or just have fun doodling, scrawl has you covered.

    Commercial

  • Paintastic icon

    Paintastic

    Paintastic allows you to make beautiful drawings, paintings, designs and greeting cards. With just a few strokes on your Android smartphone/tablet you can create...

    Freemium Android

  • scri.ch icon

    scri.ch

    scri.ch is a hackable, open source and minimal drawing tool. Learn more about tips and hacks on http://about.scri.ch/

    Free Open Source Web

  • Pro Paint icon

    Pro Paint

    Pro Paint for Mac is the realistic full-featured digital art software that is used for painting, image editing, vector drawing, free-form transformation, cropping, alpha...

    Commercial

  • Dibuja icon

    Dibuja

    Gtk based basic paint program like MSPaint or Paintbrush but for Linux.

    Free Open Source Linux