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AzPainter

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AzPainter is a full color painting program for Linux. It's a lightweight tool with tablet pressure support, and provides basic functions such as selection, layers, filters. you can use it for painting, image editing, or pixel art making.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • JP flagJapan

Platforms

  • Linux
4.5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Support for Layers
  2.  Drawing Tablet Support
  3.  Tablet support
  4.  Sketching
  5.  Texture for brushes
  6.  Texture painting
  7.  Pixel Art

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AzPainter information

  • Developed by

    JP flagAzel
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5
  • Alternatives

    32 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Japanese

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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about AzPainter, and it has gotten 19 likes

AzPainter was added to AlternativeTo by ni_no5 on Mar 20, 2014 and this page was last updated Apr 19, 2025.

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Top Positive Comment
BlueTen
Jan 18, 2016
4

2025 Edit: Coming back years later to mention that this is now available as an Appimage on Linux. There is no need for a complicated install process anymore; just download the Appimage, make it executable as a program (right-click - Properties, in your File Manager), and double-click on the Appimage to run it! Should work great on pretty much any distro!

Old Comment: Installing this requires that you run a few commands in Terminal, but thankfully the readme file does show a list of required packages that you should be able to install right from Terminal if you're running a distro with the right repositories. I was able to install this in Kubuntu 15.10 by grabbing those packages I was missing via Terminal, and following the installation instructions.

Once you get AzPainter installed, it's very easy to get used to and quite user-friendly. It has a set of tools and a GUI that remind me of Paint Tool Sai and Fire Alpaca on Windows. Overall, a great drawing and painting program with pressure-sensitive tablet support (Wacom, in my case). It's lighter on resources and more straightforward than GIMP, which makes it easy to just jump right into and start drawing. It can output files in PSD format, making it easy to move over to GIMP if necessary. Hopefully this will show up in the various Software Centers eventually because it's really something that all artists on Linux should try out.

cel
May 19, 2023
0

The general interface feels like a Paint Tool SAI clone (Windows-only software)

You get all the simpleness and lightweightness of SAI.

What is AzPainter?

AzPainter is a full color painting program for Linux. It's a lightweight tool with tablet pressure support, and provides basic functions such as selection, layers, filters. you can use it for painting, image editing, or pixel art making.

Available languages: Japanese and English.