Krita Alternatives

Krita is described as 'A free, open-source painting program for professional artists offering customizable UI, 9 brush engines, layer support, and color management' and is a leading digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Krita for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPad, Android and iPhone apps. The best Krita alternative is GIMP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Krita are Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET, SketchBook and MyPaint.

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Krita alternatives are mainly Digital Painting Tools, but if you're looking for Image Editors or Photo Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Online, iPad, iPad + Free, Mac, Android, Open Source and Windows + Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Krita.
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  1. Gpaint icon
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    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 of Microsoft Paint.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Paintastic icon
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    Paintastic allows you to make beautiful drawings, paintings, designs and greeting cards.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  3. Photopainter icon
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    Photopainter is both a natural-media painting software and an image processing system at the same time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  5. Graphiter icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Edit image brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and gamma with drag-and-drop ease in-browser. No uploads, logins, or limits. Secure processing happens locally. Download finished images as PNG or JPG after real-time preview. Free, unrestricted access provided.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Fhotoroom HDR is an easy to use powerful image editor that can take your JPEG's, Digital Camera RAW and High Dynamic Range photos and help you fix exposure, color, and distortion problems or quickly and easily make your photos stunning.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Generate impressive, custom photo effects by manually configuring the steps of the image manipulation process, in this program.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. The Print Shop is packed with tons of easy text editing and page layout tools, over 4,800 templates, great photo editing tools and everything else you need to create impressive projects for home, work and school.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. NeoPaint icon
     3 likes

    NeoPaint is a full featured artist's studio for Windows that's easy-to-learn, powerful and affordable! It's simple enough for beginners yet packed with powerful features and advanced tools. NeoPaint makes it easy for business and home users to touch up photographs...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Paintrix Studio is a powerful digital art app built for iPad and Apple Pencil. Create stunning artwork with handcrafted brushes, rich layers, and professional-grade tools. Bring your creative vision to life.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPad
     
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