GIMP Alternatives

GIMP is described as 'Advanced image manipulation tool offering comprehensive tools for photo retouching, composition, and batch processing in a free package' and is a leading digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GIMP for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, iPhone and Android apps. The best GIMP alternative is Krita, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GIMP are Paint.NET, Affinity Photo, Adobe Photoshop and Photopea.

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GIMP alternatives are mainly Image Editors, but if you're looking for Photo Editors or Digital Painting Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android, iPad, Linux, iPad + Free, iPhone, Android + Free and Mac. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to GIMP.
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    Project Dogwaffle lets you be creative without the fear of messing up your clothes. No sudden spills, no funny fumes. You can paint, erase it, and try again, and again, and again......

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. ImagePlay icon
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    ImagePlay is a rapid prototyping tool for building and testing image processing algorithms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. PhotoFlare icon
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    Photoflare is a cross-platform image editor with an aim to balance between powerful features and a very friendly graphical user interface. It suits a wide variety of different tasks and users who value a more nimble workflow.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    PhotoFlare is inspired by PhotoFiltre for Windows, but is not nearly as powerful. Worse than that, it crashes very often under Debian GNU/Linux, depending on which features you use. Nevertheless, I use it for simple tasks.

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    Covers most of my requirements except eliptical select.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • PhotoFlare is Freemium and Open SourceGIMP is Free and Open Source
  4. Pro Paint icon
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    Pro Paint for Mac is the realistic full-featured digital art software that is used for painting, image editing, vector drawing, free-form transformation, cropping, alpha channel editing, and more specialized tasks.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
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    GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits Raster graphics files. It also converts files between different formats.

    43 GraphicConverter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
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    Constantly (but not annoyingly) updated. Tools beyond my needs. “Free” to try full version. Great conversion tools, all formats. Good for MAC. Used for years without any problems.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • GraphicConverter is Paid and ProprietaryGIMP is Free and Open Source
  6. RealWorld Paint icon
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    RealWorld Paint is an free portable image/photo/animation editor. It supports layers with styles and can import and export Photoshop, GIMP and Paint.net images with layers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Pixeluvo icon
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    Pixeluvo is a beautifully designed photo and image editor for PC. It supports everything from simple color and contrast tweaks, cropping and resizing, to complex photo montage with multiple layers, masks and effects.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Roxio Creator icon
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    Comprehensive multimedia suite with over 20 integrated applications offering disc burning, video capture and editing, photo editing, file conversion, DVD authoring, and encryption, ensuring versatile media management and online sharing capabilities.

    322 Roxio Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Multi Layer icon
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    Love photo editing? Multi Layer is a full featured photo editor able to edit and compose images in multiple layers. It supports selection tool (manual and magic wand tool) to selective editing brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and RGB color levels.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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    PhoXo is small and free image editing application. It's tiny, fast, easy to use, can be treated as a mini PhotoShop. Its features include layers, undo, over 50 special effects, batch processing, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools for selecting, crop, painting...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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