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, Web-based, Linux 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 iPad, iPhone, Open Source, Mac, Android, Linux and Digital Painting. 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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    NPS Image Editor features a user interface resembling the "classic" version of Microsoft Paint with small system footprint.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. JugiPaint icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Fotografix icon
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    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
     
  7. 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

    Platforms

    • 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
  8. Graphiter icon
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    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 (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Pho.to icon
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    Improve and play with your digital pictures at Pho.to site with easy yet powerful editing tools and services. Enhance your pictures, have fun with your photos online, retouch portraits and share your photos for free. Free Pho.to services:

    114 Pho.to alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    good layering of pictures

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Pho.to is a great Microsoft Paint alternative.

    • Pho.to is Freemium and ProprietaryMicrosoft Paint is Free and Proprietary
  10. Draw icon
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    Draw is a graphics painting app to draw, color, or edit pictures. You can use Draw like a digital sketchpad to make simple pictures, creative projects, or to add text and designs to other pictures, such as those taken with your digital camera.

    106 Draw alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Photo Toolbox icon
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    Photo Toolbox is an utility software that allows you to edit, retouch and fix your digital photo. It combines many easy to use and very powerful features which can make your photo much better than before.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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