MyPaint Alternatives

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.

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  1. SmoothDraw icon
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    SmoothDraw is an easy natural painting and digital free-hand drawing software that can produce high quality pictures. Support many kinds of brushes (pen, pencil, dry media, airbrush, bristle brush, image hose, etc.), retouch tools, layers, image adjustment, and many effects...

    16 SmoothDraw alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Pro Paint icon
     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. MyBrushes icon
     22 likes

    MyBrushes Paint for Mac app allows you to paint on infinite canvas and PLAYBACK whole drawing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Seashore icon
     69 likes

    Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMPs technology and uses the same native file format.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. PictBear icon
     6 likes

    PictBear is an image editor and paint program that is very friendly toward the beginning user, PictBear is very straightforward and easy to use no matter what your skill level is.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Sketchable icon
     3 likes

    Seamlessly fusing the freedom and romance of your physical notebook with the power and flexibility of the digital world, Sketchable provides the best creative experience on the market.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. PixaFlux icon
     11 likes

    PixaFlux is a node based image processing application. PixaFlux creates and edits images in a non destructive way, using a node graph to organize the workflow without restrictions of size, position or color mode.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8.  4 likes

    ChibiPaint is an open source oekaki applet, a software that allows people to draw and paint online and share the result with other art enthusiasts.

    • Filter, Tablet Pressure, Multiple Layers, Rotating Canvas, High-Quality Brushes...
    • Open Source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. showFoto icon
     14 likes

    You can use it to view your photographs and improve them. Showfoto is the standalone image editor of the digiKam project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • KDE
     
  10. Charcoal icon
     6 likes
    • Charcoal is incredibly easy to use: Just create or open a sketch and start drawing. There are no layers, properties panels or confusing settings. Instead, Charcoal features rich tools and beautiful color palettes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. Paint Studio icon
     1 like

    Paint Studio is a product born from TwistedBrush Pro Studio but with a focus on natural media painting and drawing with a simpler, streamlined interface.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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