Zen Brush Alternatives and Similar Apps

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MyPaint

Open Source by Martin Renold |
Mac, Windows, Linux

MyPaint is a fast painting program with an emphasis on full-screen use. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only...

Photos & Graphics portable, image-editing, drawing, sketching, paint
+4 more sketch, painter, wacom, scribbling
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Pinta

Open Source by Pinta Maintainers (previously Jonathan P... |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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.

Photos & Graphics image-editing, layers
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Microsoft Paint

Free by Microsoft |
Windows

Paint (formerly Paintbrush) is a simple, ultra-basic graphics painting program that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows. It opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24-bit, 256 color, 16...

Photos & Graphics image-editing, painting, paint, graphic
+2 more windows-bundled, bundled
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Krita

Open Source by Calligra Suite |
Windows, Linux

Krita is a creative sketching and painting application based on Calligra technology. Whether you want to create art paintings, cartoons, concept art or textures, Krita supports most graphics tablets out...

Photos & Graphics image-editing, painting, sketching, graphic
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Seashore

Open Source by Mark Pazolli |
Mac

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....

Photos & Graphics image-editing, svg, svg-editor
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Artrage

Commercial by Ambient design |
Mac, iPad, Windows

A simple but lovely natural media painting and sketching program. Art oriented, but capable of loading/saving photoshop files. A very cheap alternative to Painter, with a stripped down, elegant interface.

Photos & Graphics image-editing, painting, sketching
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SketchBook Pro

Commercial by Autodesk |
Mac, iPad, Windows

Autodesk Sketchbook Pro drawing software features an artist-friendly, gesture-based user interface that is so fast and intuitive even new users can be productive within minutes.

Photos & Graphics drawing, painting, sketching, paint, sketch
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Corel Painter

Commercial by Corel Corporation |
Mac, Windows

Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is...

drawing, painting, paint, painter
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PaintTool SAI

Commercial by SYSTEMAX Inc. |
Windows

PaintTool SAI is high quality and lightweight painting software, fully digitizer support, amazing anti-aliased paintings, provide easy and stable operation, this software make digital art more enjoyable and...

Photos & Graphics drawing, painting, sketching
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FotoSketcher

Free by FotoSketcher |
Windows

Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds. FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a...

Photos & Graphics image-editing, photo-editing, drawing, painting, art
+3 more sketching, paint, sketch
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QAquarelle

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Qaquarelle is a very young opensource Qt4-based painting application that is supposed to provide a native way of painting with emulated traditional instruments, including watercolor simulation, full support...

painter, watercolor
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Manga Studio EX

Commercial by Smith Micro Software |
Mac, Windows

Manga Studio EX, the world's leading comic and manga creation software, delivers powerful cutting edge drawing and coloring tools, making it essential for professional comic and manga artists.

News & Books, Photos & Graphics drawing, sketching, comics, manga-creation
+2 more create-comic, comic-creation
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Gimp Paint Studio

Free by Ramón Miranda |
Mac, Windows, Linux

GPS (aka Gimp Paint Studio) is a collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP. The goal of GPS is to provide an...

plugin / add-on Optimised GIMP workspace and tools for drawing and painting., design, painter, gimp, paint-brushes
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SketchBook Express

Free by Autodesk, Inc. |
Mac

Autodesk SketchBook® Express for Mac is a fun and intuitive drawing application. Get a taste of the SketchBook Pro experience with SketchBook Express. Use professional-grade tools and brushes to create...

Photos & Graphics painting, sketching
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Livebrush

Freemium by David Fasullo |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gestures through the use of velocity and other motion controls. By combining simple motion controls with...

Photos & Graphics community, design, graphics, flash, drawing, art
+11 more illustration, interactive, professional, air-application, line, style, dynamic, textures, gesture, motion, brush
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Gimp Painter

Open Source by Souichi Takashige |
Mac, Windows

GIMP with modified and enhanced workspace focused on painting.

painting, painter, gimp
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gpaint

Open Source by GNU |
Linux

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...

Photos & Graphics image-editing, drawing, image-processing, gnome
+2 more painting, paint
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DrawPile

Open Source |
Windows, Linux

DrawPile is a collaborative drawing program, similar to OpenCanvas.

Photos & Graphics image-editing, painter
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openCanvas

Commercial by Portalgraphics |
Windows

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. openCanvas has functions that...

Photos & Graphics drawing, painting, sketching, paint, sketch
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TwistedBrush Studio

Freemium by Pixarra |
Windows

TwistedBrush is a digital paint software and photo editor that supplies a wide variety of natural art tools. Two versions are available: TwistedBrush Pro Studio: -------------------------------- ...

Photos & Graphics photo-editing, drawing, image-editing
+8 more image-processing, painting, sketching, photo-filters, slideshow-creator, digital-painting, tablet-support, photoshop-plugins-support