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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  1. Patchy is a free, open-source image editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux, built for accurate PSD and PSB editing and round trips with Adobe Photoshop. It supports editable text and vectors, masks, layer styles, Smart Objects and Smart Filters, legacy 8BF plug-ins, JavaScript...

    15 Patchy Image Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Flatpak
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    You can use it to view your photographs and improve them. Showfoto is the standalone image editor of the digiKam project.

    104 showFoto alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • KDE
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  3. Kala Paint icon
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    Built by painters for painters

    Brushes that feel great to use, tools that make art fun again: Kala Paint is a powerful new painting software built to fully replace old subscription programs. No Generative AI, ever.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Wizardbrush icon
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    Wizardbrush is a natural media painting software which has a lot of brushes and paper with realism style. You can create realistic picture with it. You can not only use it to paint pictures, but also handle your digital photos, even use it to teach digital painting and image...

    127 Wizardbrush alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. 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.

    114 Pro Paint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. Touch screen software – Corel Paint it! touch is touch screen software designed for Windows 7 touch-enabled computers. Draw, paint and get creative with your touch screen PC.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Photokit icon
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    PhotoKit.com is integrated with a powerful online photo editor, smart brush, image quality enhancement, exposure repairment and image filters, splicing, cropping, transformation, painting, resizing, and can add text, shape, sticker, frame, round corners, etc.

    91 Photokit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Fluid Paint icon
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    Fluid Paint is an open-source web app that simulates real paint using a dynamic brush that is easily controlled by moue and using simple parameters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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