



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, iPhone and Android 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.




Pastela is a drawing app designed around the motto: "Draw out your creativity for the world."


A simple yet secretly powerful painting app! Focus on pure colors and shapes with a streamlined interface. Ideal for plein air painting, color notes, sketches and studies.



openCanvas, popularly abbreviated as oC, is a popular Japanese image editing program.




HiPaint is a professional integrated drawing and coloring software specially designed for digital drawing creators. The intuitive and simple interface allows for easy and intelligent operation even for a newbie with a medium- or small-sized screen of a mobile device.




RavioliPaint2 is paint application that supports multi-layer editing.


Draw your cartoon using frame-by-frame animation. It works just like the old school flipbook but with a modern twist!



Black Ink is a digital painting software that uses your computer's rendering hardware to provide a perfectly responsive experience no matter your picture's size.



Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.

A powerful and unique digital art program, focusing on natural media painting, photo editing and illustrative styles.




GPS (aka Gimp Paint Studio) is a collection of brushes, patterns, color gradients, accompanying tool presets and dynamics. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP.

Verve (Dictionary: Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition...) is the result of a curious idea I had to try using the graphics hardware to run a fluid dynamics simulation.
