Microsoft Paint Alternatives

Microsoft Paint is described as 'Basic, ad-free editor bundled with Windows for bitmap, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF files. Features AI powered features, layer support, offline use, and no registration' and is a very popular digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Paint for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best Microsoft Paint alternative is Paint.NET, which is free. Other great apps like Microsoft Paint are Krita, Pinta, Photopea and MyPaint.

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Microsoft Paint alternatives are mainly Image Editors, but if you're looking for Digital Painting Tools or Photo Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac, Digital Painting, iPad, iPhone, Linux, Open Source and Kindle Fire. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Microsoft Paint.
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  1. Inspire Pro icon
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    Inspire Pro delivers an incredibly fast and realistic painting, drawing and sketching experience that you can take with you wherever you go and use whenever inspiration strikes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  2. SoftColor PhotoEQ makes color correction, image editing and color management tasks simpler. Just drag and drop image files or folders to PhotoEQ and you are ready to start improving your images. PhotoEQ's todo queue helps you to organize and complete image editing tasks...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Serif PhotoPlus icon
     17 likes

    PhotoPlus is the free, feature-restricted image editing software by Serif that enables you to fix and enhance your digital photos; paint and blend with brushes; and export you photos for print, email, and the web.

    82 Serif PhotoPlus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. NPS Image Editor features a user interface resembling the "classic" version of Microsoft Paint with small system footprint.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Everyday drawing There are hundreds of painting and drawing apps on the App Store. This one is a bit different. It doesn’t want to grow up to be Photoshop, Illustrator, or Draw Anything the Next Generation. It’s not intended for professional artists.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Photopainter icon
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    Photopainter is both a natural-media painting software and an image processing system at the same time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. imEditor icon
     1 like

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. JugiPaint icon
     8 likes

    JugiPaint is a painting software with diverse sets of tools for various types of illustration work. It provides many standard digital painting features like layers, brushes, selections, transformations, etc., as well as some less often like guide layers and panels.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Fotografix icon
     20 likes

    In addition to being totally portable, Fotografix has a ridiculously small footprint. Its a 370Kb download and about 700Kb once extracted. Despite its size, most of the features I rely on in Photoshop are available.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  10. Dibuja icon
     5 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Dibuja vs Microsoft Paint Comments
    Jose Anaya
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    Low resources and can do many things

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Dibuja is Free and Open SourceMicrosoft Paint is Free and Proprietary
  11. Graphiter icon
     1 like

    Graphiter is an easy to use, straight forward, and powerful Sketching App. Its aim is to reproduce a real life sketching workflow using simple tools, such as, a Graphite Pencil, a Blend tool and an Eraser.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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