Free Corel Painter Alternatives

The best free alternative to Corel Painter is GIMP, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Corel Painter and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Corel Painter are Krita, Photopea, MyPaint and Linearity Curve.

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Corel Painter 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 Corel Painter.
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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.

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Corel Painter alternatives page was last updated Jan 19, 2024
  1. Inkpad icon
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    Create beautiful vector artwork on your iPad with Inkpad.

    51 Inkpad alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • iPad
    Inkpad iconCorel Painter Icon

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  2. XGimp icon
     3 likes

    XGimp is a version of gimp that works on a mobile. It can be used as a paint program, image editor or a photo retouching program.

    186 XGimp alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    XGimp Features

    XGimp iconCorel Painter Icon

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    ChibiPaint is an open source oekaki applet, a software that allows people to draw and paint online and share the result with other art enthusiasts.

    • Filter, Tablet Pressure, Multiple Layers, Rotating Canvas, High-Quality Brushes...
    • Open Source.
    69 ChibiPaint alternatives
    ChibiPaint SS1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    Last update was in 2008, 9 years ago, no development update

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  4. Tayasui Sketches School  icon
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    Because beautiful tools make beautiful drawings, we endlessly refined Sketches brushes to create the most realistic drawing tools.

    65 Tayasui Sketches School alternatives
    Tayasui Sketches School  screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPad

    Tayasui Sketches School Features

    1.  Watercolor
    2.  Sketch
    Tayasui Sketches School  iconCorel Painter Icon

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  5. Flow by Moleskine icon
     2 likes

    Creating great drawings and getting your ideas down on digital paper is all about your headspace. Flow pages seamlessly expand as you draw and develop ideas, which means you keep your head in the clouds instead of managing documents.

    36 Flow by Moleskine alternatives
    Flow by Moleskine screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Flow by Moleskine Features

    1.  Sketching
    2.  Apple Pencil support
    Flow by Moleskine iconCorel Painter Icon

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  6. PixelStyle icon
     10 likes

    PixelStyle Photo Editor for Mac is an all-in-one photo editing and graphic design software, providing professional high-quality photo processing tools to edit the photos, enhance and touch up photos on Mac OS X.

    165 PixelStyle alternatives
    PixelStyle Photo Editor for Mac

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    PixelStyle Features

    1.  Retouch photos
    2.  Edit screenshots
    PixelStyle iconCorel Painter Icon

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  7. Graphiter icon
     1 like

    Graphiter is an easy to use, straight forward, and powerful Sketching App. Its aim is to reproduce a real life sketching workflow using simple tools, such as, a Graphite Pencil, a Blend tool and an Eraser.

    97 Graphiter alternatives
    Graphiter screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Graphiter Features

    1.  Color blending
    2.  Sketching
    Discontinued

    The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.0, released in September 2016, can be still downloaded from the Microsoft Store.

    Graphiter iconCorel Painter Icon

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  8. SpeedyPainter icon
     5 likes

    "SpeedyPainter" is a simple and lightweight painting software. It is written in C++ and uses the OpenGL graphics library.

    24 SpeedyPainter alternatives
    Perspective grid overlay

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Pressure Sensitivity
    2.  Drawing Tablet Support
    3.  Portable
    4.  Digital Drawing
    5.  Replay
    6.  OPENGL
    7.  Sketching
    8.  Sketch
    SpeedyPainter iconCorel Painter Icon

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  9. Photokit icon
     1 like

    PhotoKit.com is integrated with a powerful online photo editor, smart brush, image quality enhancement, exposure repairment and image filters, splicing, cropping, transformation, painting, resizing, and can add text, shape, sticker, frame, round corners, etc.

    94 Photokit alternatives
    Photokit screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    Photokit Features

    1.  Remove Image Background
    2.  Photo effects
    3.  Scanner
    4.  Remove Unwanted Objects
    5.  Photographic filters
    Photokit iconCorel Painter Icon

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    • Photokit is the most popular SaaS alternative to Corel Painter.

    • Photokit is Free and ProprietaryCorel Painter is Paid and Proprietary
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