Charcoal Alternatives

Charcoal is described as '- Charcoal is incredibly easy to use: Just create or open a sketch and start drawing. There are no layers, properties panels or confusing settings. Instead, Charcoal features rich tools and beautiful color palettes' and is a digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Charcoal for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android apps. The best Charcoal alternative is Krita, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Charcoal are Paint.NET, MyPaint, Procreate and Clip Studio Paint.

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Charcoal alternatives are mainly Digital Painting Tools but may also be Image Editors or Photo Editors.  Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Charcoal.
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  • Charcoal is incredibly easy to use: Just create or open a sketch and start drawing. There are no layers, properties panels or confusing settings. Instead, Charcoal features rich tools and beautiful color palettes.
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Charcoal alternatives page was last updated Apr 28, 2022
  1. Draft icon
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    Draft is a straightforward sketch app for iPad. You can get it in the App Store for $9.99.

    It only comes in black. You can draw in white or red.

    It automatically saves whatever you draw.

    You can share sketches via email or Campfire.

    See, there it is in Campfire. That too.

    30 Draft alternatives
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    • iPhone

    Draft Features

    1.  Sketching
    2.  Sketch
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  2. IsoPaint icon
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    IsoPaint is a quick, simple & fun isometric drawing app. It's designed to make isometric drawing easy for everyone, with no complicated layers, menus, filters or excessive tapping like similar apps.

    36 IsoPaint alternatives
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    • FreemiumProprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    IsoPaint Features

    1.  Support for Layers
    2.  Isometric view
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  3. PaperColor icon
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    PaperColor is an excellent painting application which is imitating the real paintbrush to draw and doodle,graffiti. Easy to painting, learning to paint, learn to draw.

    37 PaperColor alternatives
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    • FreemiumProprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    PaperColor Features

    1.  Sketching
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  4. Growly Draw icon
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    Everyday drawing There are hundreds of painting and drawing apps on the App Store. This one is a bit different. It doesn’t want to grow up to be Photoshop, Illustrator, or Draw Anything the Next Generation. It’s not intended for professional artists.

    135 Growly Draw alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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