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Paintbrush

Paintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for...

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Mac  Requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or higher
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Matrilwood
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Painfully weak. Even resizing is difficult because the re-sizer doesn't adapt to the size of the image. For once there is something worse than MSPaint.

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  • brew install --cask paintbrush

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is Paintbrush?

Paintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint icon Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years.