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, 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.

filter to find the best alternatives

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, Open Source, iPad + Free, Android, Mac and Windows + Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Krita.
Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Krita alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. FotoSketcher icon
     26 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds. FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a pai.

    32 FotoSketcher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
    |
    1
    Comments about FotoSketcher as an Alternative to Krita
    Aleksandr Dikov
    Negative
    1

    Krita it's painting software, but FotoSketecher it's just procedural algorithm to make some simple effects.

    Krita Icon
    FotoSketcher icon
    • FotoSketcher is Free and ProprietaryKrita is Free and Open Source
  3. PhoXo icon
     14 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Livebrush icon
     23 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gestures through the use of velocity and other motion controls. By combining simple motion controls with customizable brush styles, Livebrush offers a fun and unique way to create...

    58 Livebrush alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe AIR
     
  5. Npainter icon
     5 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    NPainter is a free fast and simple painting software created from scratch. the most important goal is provide a powerful and lightweight tool for beginner and amateur art artists as well semi-professional artists.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • itch.io
     
  6. PictBear icon
     6 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    PictBear is an image editor and paint program that is very friendly toward the beginning user, PictBear is very straightforward and easy to use no matter what your skill level is.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7.  3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. IsoPaint icon
     Like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    IsoPaint is a quick, simple & fun isometric drawing app. It's designed to make isometric drawing easy for everyone, with no complicated layers, menus, filters or excessive tapping like similar apps.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. Vara icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes. It belongs to the group of applications like Krita and MyPaint, but with a limited number of features. The main focus is on simplicity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  10.  1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    This software is very similar to FireAlpaca, but only available in Japanese. It is the original distribution or the software by the developers, whereas FireAlpaca is the distribution through another company.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. InfiniPaint icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    InfiniPaint is a collaborative, infinite space, infinite zoom, canvas note-taking/drawing app. Unlike many other infinite canvas apps, although there is a specific zoom-in level limit, there is no zoom-out limit (at least up until the point your computer runs out of memory).

    48 InfiniPaint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Online
     
You are at page 7 of Krita alternatives