Paint.NET Alternatives

Paint.NET is described as 'Free image editor for Windows, offering layer support, plugins, special effects, and portable use without installation. Lightweight and ad-free' and is a leading digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Paint.NET for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Paint.NET alternative is Pinta, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Paint.NET are Krita, GIMP, Adobe Photoshop and Pixelmator.

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Paint.NET alternatives are mainly Image Editors, but if you're looking for Photo Editors or Digital Painting Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android, Linux, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Windows and Online. 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 Paint.NET.
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  1. 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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    • Windows
     
  2. Pro Paint icon
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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Photo POS Pro icon
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    Photo Pos Pro Photo Editor is a free photo editor offers users a wide variety of possibilities in the fields of Image Enhancing and Image Editing and in the field of Computer Graphics Design. Using the editor you can perform various tasks, from simple basic tasks to complex...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. PictBear icon
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    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
     
  5. VanceAI icon
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    VanceAI provides AI enhancing, upscaling, sharpening, denoising, background removing, and more, with only one click to free your hands from complicated photo processing. All AI tools are available across Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    CodedColor PhotoStudio by 1STEIN is a Windows photo viewer and editor to organize, edit, resize, reformat, correct, compare, sort, watermark, annotate and print digital images, and to edit EXIF and IPTC data in digital photos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Project Dogwaffle lets you be creative without the fear of messing up your clothes. No sudden spills, no funny fumes. You can paint, erase it, and try again, and again, and again......

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    Liquid Studio is a product born from TwistedBrush Pro Studio but with a focus on creation of individual objects with liquid paints.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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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