The Best 125 Paint.NET Alternatives

  • Acorn icon

    Acorn

    Acorn is a photo editor built for the rest of us. With a simple interface and tools for adding everything from text, shapes, and effects, you can make the perfect picture in seconds and minutes, not hours and days.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Seashore icon

    Seashore

    Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS Xs Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Sumo Paint icon

    Sumo Paint

    Sumo Paint is a powerful image editor with a long-standing history as a fully capable Photoshop clone in the browser.

    Freemium Web

  • Artweaver icon

    Artweaver

    Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes.

    Freemium Windows

  • KolourPaint icon

    KolourPaint

    KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE (a desktop environment for UNIX).

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Hornil StylePix icon

    Hornil StylePix

    Hornil Stylepix, or simply StylePix, is a graphics editing program with a number of advanced features. StylePix is an acronym for Style Pictures. This means your pictures with nice style.

    Freemium Windows

  • MyBrushes icon

    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

  • LazPaint icon

    LazPaint

    LazPaint is a free and open image editor that features layers and transparency. It supports the format OpenRaster so it can interoperate with MyPaint, Gimp and Krita. LazPaint has been written with Lazarus / Free Pascal and BGRABitmap.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

    Portable Layers support Lightweight
  • openCanvas icon

    openCanvas

    openCanvas, popularly abbreviated as oC, is a popular Japanese image editing program. openCanvas is a paint software package that can be used by experts and novices alike.

    Commercial Windows

  • Fotografix icon

    Fotografix

    In addition to being totally portable, Fotografix has a ridiculously small footprint. Its a 370Kb download and about 700Kb once extracted. Despite its size, most of the features I rely on in Photoshop are available.

    Free Windows

    Portable Photo effects
  • Serif PhotoPlus icon

    Serif PhotoPlus

    PhotoPlus is the free, feature-restricted image editing software by Serif that enables you to fix and enhance your digital photos; paint and blend with brushes; and export you photos for print, email, and the web.

    Freemium Windows

  • PixBuilder icon

    PixBuilder

    Free Photo Editing Software for PC PixBuilder Studio is a free image editing software program for digital photo editing, images processing, and resizing. For digital photo editing, you can use its many professional quality functions.

    Free Windows

    Layers Color correction
  • CinePaint icon

    CinePaint

    CinePaint is a deep paint application that edits EXR, DPX, 16-bit TIFF, JPEG, PNG and many other types of image files. CinePaint is available as a native application for Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux