Microsoft Paint Alternatives for Linux

Microsoft Paint is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Krita, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Paint and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Microsoft Paint are Pinta, MyPaint, KolourPaint and FireAlpaca.

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  1. PhotoFlare icon
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    Photoflare is a cross-platform image editor with an aim to balance between powerful features and a very friendly graphical user interface. It suits a wide variety of different tasks and users who value a more nimble workflow.

    18 PhotoFlare alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about PhotoFlare as an Alternative to Microsoft Paint
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    Photoflare is more powerfull than microsoft paint but below a full featured program like Gimp. With the simple and intuitive UI, you can make basic edits, like crop an image, add text, annotate, draw, change contrast...

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    • PhotoFlare is Freemium and Open SourceMicrosoft Paint is Free and Proprietary
  2. HeliosPaint icon
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    HeliosPaint is a freeware paint program for creating and editing images. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix and is written in Sun Microsystem's Java programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. imEditor icon
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    ImEditor is a simple image editor, supporting PNG, JPEG, WEBP, BMP, and ICO file types. It offers several tools to easily modify an image.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  4. Dibuja icon
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    Easily create drawings and edit images. Add arrows, text, and effects to your drawings and pictures, or crop and resize your images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Comments about Dibuja as an Alternative to Microsoft Paint
    Jose Anaya
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    Low resources and can do many things

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Dibuja is Free and Open SourceMicrosoft Paint is Free and Proprietary
  5. InfiniPaint icon
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    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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Online
     
  6. QAquarelle icon
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    Qaquarelle is a very young opensource Qt4-based painting application that is supposed to provide a native way of painting with emulated traditional instruments, including watercolor simulation, full support for tablets and OpenGL-based processing in GPU.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. 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

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. CinePaint icon
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    CinePaint is a deep paint application that edits EXR, DPX, 16-bit TIFF, JPEG, PNG and many other types of image files. CinePaint is available as a native application for Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. Fotowall icon
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    Fotowall is an opensource creative tool that lets you play with your pixels as you've ever wanted! Make the perfect arrangement with your photos, add text, live video from your webcam and the best internet pictures.

    42 Fotowall alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Vara icon
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    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

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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