Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- itch.io
- Android




MyPaint is described as 'Fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices' and is a very popular digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MyPaint for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and Web-based apps. The best MyPaint alternative is GIMP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MyPaint are Krita, Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET and Affinity.




Milton is an open source application that features an infinite canvas. It feels raster-based but internally it works with vectors. It lets you export your work at any resolution.

Flame Painter is a unique paint program that lets you create original artworks with flame brushes.




Paint 3D is Microsoft's totally rebuilt and enhanced version of Microsoft Paint built for Windows 10 and with extensive 3D support as well as other helpful, long-needed additions like pen support and easier cropping feature.




Verve (Dictionary: Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition...) is the result of a curious idea I had to try using the graphics hardware to run a fluid dynamics simulation.

openCanvas, popularly abbreviated as oC, is a popular Japanese image editing program.






RavioliPaint2 is paint application that supports multi-layer editing.


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.


"SpeedyPainter" is a simple and lightweight painting software. It is written in C++ and uses the OpenGL graphics library.




We believe artists deserve the best possible tools and we are determined to give it to them. The goal with Leonardo is to make the best painting application ever.




