Pastela is a drawing app designed around the motto: "Draw out your creativity for the world."
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- iPad
Japan
Krita Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to Krita is GIMP, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET, Affinity and Photopea. There's no shortage of Digital Painting Tools like Krita, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and Android.
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119 Acorn alternativesImage editor for macOS offering AI-powered background removal, live text detection, non-destructive filters, unlimited layers, vector shapes, collage creation, extensive file support including PSD and RAW formats, and tools for both designers and hobbyists.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
United States
+6
79 Gimp Paint Studio alternativesGPS (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.
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- GIMP
Spain
EU
56 Verve Painter alternativesVerve (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.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Windows
Türkiye
Umoupen is a fully featured drawing and animation app for artists who want it all, sketching, frame-by-frame animation, storyboarding, comic/notebook features, endless raster and vector canvases, extensive import (most image types, MP4, SVG, FLA) and export (PNG, GIF, MP4)...
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
82 Tayasui Sketches alternativesSketches is a perfect mix of beauty, simplicity and power, a truly unique combination you won't find anywhere else.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
France- EU
+7
68 Photomator alternativesMobile editor offers 30+ color adjustments, AI upscaling, smart selection, noise removal, object eraser, RAW and Apple ProRAW support, film-style presets, batch edits, real-time histograms, deep Photos and iCloud integration, plus LUT export and pro-level features.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
Paint Studio is a product born from TwistedBrush Pro Studio but with a focus on natural media painting and drawing with a simpler, streamlined interface.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
+5
CremaStudio is a fast, native image editor for macOS - open PSD and RAW files, edit with full layers, masks, and non-destructive adjustments, then export to open formats.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
+2
Linea is an elegantly simple sketchbook for Apple devices optimized for use with Apple Pencil. It opts for a minimal interface with only the essential options, rather than overkill like many other apps.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
+9
54 Fresh Paint alternativesUnleash your inner creative with Fresh Paint – the ultimate canvas for your big ideas. Fresh Paint is a fun and easy to use painting app with the right tools for artists of all ages. We believe that brilliant, creative ideas can come from anyone, anytime.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Phone
- United States
