Paint.NET Alternatives for Mac

GIMP

GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, and more. Available also as portable app: http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable

• GIMP is full of features that aren't needed by 99% of people and very complicated. Guest • Jan 2017 • 57 agrees and 12 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Whereas Paint.NET is a very simple and user friendly program that's easy to use, GIMP is incredibly unforgiving, difficult to learn/use and lacking the welcoming and uncomplicated interface of Paint.NET. Moreover it has functions that just completely stop working for no reason Guest • Dec 2016 • 48 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Paint.net is a very easy to use program for basic editing of images, while Gimp is a very complicated tool for doing lots of complex stuff with images so kind of very different target groups I would say Guest • May 2017 • 34 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• GIMP is really complicated and not a real alternative. It has way more than nedeed for most of the users. Paint.NET is really simple to use and has just enough functionality to be useful for an advanced (but not professional) user. Guest • Jul 2017 • 5 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• GIMP is a great app, but its way too heavy and slow for paint.net tasks. Guest • Dec 2017 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• it's a Photoshop alternative, not Paint.NET Guest • Aug 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Hard to use, can't draw a simple square/circle fast ... Guest • Apr 2018 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Paint is for simple drawings, Gimp is a complex and featureful artwork and photo editing tool. It’s more like an alternative to Photoshop. Guest • Oct 2018 Disagree   Agree
• GIMPs UX is a disaster of disconnected panels, unexpected behaviour, and weird key combinations. It is not a Paint.NET alternative. Guest • May 2018 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Gimp is something way different than Paint.net. If you want to do something rather quickly, then Gimp isn't for you... at all. Guest • Aug 2018 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• GIMP is much harder to use than paint.NET, and the target demographics a very different. Guest • Oct 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• GIMP is a superb cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) alternative to Paint.NET because it's open source and has a huge range of functionality. It is less suited for those situations where you're seeking a very simple image editor, without fuss. But it's still cross-platform, which Paint.NET isn't. So it depends what "alternative" means to you. JohnFastman • Jan 2017 • 13 agrees and 15 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Haiku AmigaOS

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Krita

Krita is a complete creative sketching and painting application with advanced, commercial quality features. It's free, open-source and available across all major desktop platforms. User Interface - An intuitive user interface that stays out of your way. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow. Once you have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. You can also create your own shortcuts for commonly used tools.

• Very good, but not focused to photo editing. Guest • Jan 2017 • 8 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It's literally a painting tool, not for photo editing. Guest • Nov 2017 • 6 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Krita is also very similar to photoshop, and if you find the features easily enough and do enough research it has ALOT more features than paint.net while having the easy navigation that paint.net has. Also it's free! Guest • Dec 2016 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• This is a digital painting app, not a raster painting app Guest • Nov 2016 • 5 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com

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Adobe Photoshop

If you can think it, you can make it with Photoshop CC, the world’s best imaging and design app. Create and enhance photographs, illustrations, and 3D artwork. Design websites and mobile apps. Edit videos, simulate real-life paintings, and more. It’s everything you need to make any idea real.

• Very pricy advanced application compared to free paint.net Guest • Jan 2016 • 24 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• While Paint.NET is a very easy to use program, Adobe Photoshop is full of features that aren't needed by 95% of people, difficult to learn/use and very complicated. Besides it is very pricy. Guest • May 2018 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• The absolute best in photo correction and manipulation. Slick interface. Fast. Loads of tools for mobile and Web design. Content-aware editing. Video editing. 3D design capability. Synced Libraries. Integrated stock library. Complementary mobile apps. HaricharanSrinivasan • Dec 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• First, money, second, unlike paint.net, unaccesible for beginners Guest • Aug 2018 Disagree   Agree
• Actually, Paint.NET is supposed to be a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop. While Paint.NET is very powerful, Adobe Photoshop is the superior when it comes to editing. If you want nice free results, Paint.NET is your best bet. If you want amazing results and the best tools and are not afraid to drop in some money, Adobe Photoshop is a very great choice. Guest • Apr 2016 • 6 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Wine ReactOS

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Pinta

Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET . Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, and Windows. On Windows, Pinta requires the .NET framework, just like Paint.NET.

• This functions in almost identical ways to Paint.NET, more so than any other program listed on here. Guest • Oct 2015 • 6 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Even though it's Discontinued, it's very similiar to Paint.NET and It's multi-platform Guest • Apr 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It is powerfull, open-source and almost the same but cross-platform alternative to paint.net Guest • Jan 2018 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It's a much better multi-platform alternative to Paint.NET than GIMP in my opinion. It's a much simpler interface, like Paint.NET Epicpkmn11 • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Uses the same layout. Never used Pinta before, but since I have experience with Paint.NET I understood all features. Guest • Jun 2018 Disagree   Agree
• Simple program - very similar to paint.net. It also is lightweight (~60 MB vs ~400 MB for Krita on Lubuntu system) Guest • Jul 2018 Disagree   Agree
• This is the only one in the list that aims to be a paint.net clone. Guest • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It's as simple as Paint.NET. Works as you would expect. I consider this to be Paint.NET for Mac Guest • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It's a simple program with almost identical features of Paint.net, it also does not require much storage space when first started. Guest • Nov 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Mono

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MyPaint

MyPaint is a fast painting program with an emphasis on full-screen use. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it. MyPaint supports pressure or tilt sensitive graphic tablets and comes with an easy-to-use brush collection. There is a complex interface for creating own brushes, focusing on brush dynamics (changes with speed, pressure, randomly).

• MyPaint is a digital painting/drawing program, Paint.NET is a simple image editor. superluminar • Oct 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• MyPaint looks a lot like Photoshop. Paint.NET is so popular because of the simplicity. Photoshop is a beautiful program with a lot of options. Paint.NET is a simple "paint" program that allows you to go as you like, but keep it simple at the beginning. MyPaint is like a Photoshop lite. Guest • May 2017 • 4 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com

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Pixelmator

Pixelmator is a powerful, beautiful, and easy to use image editor. Featuring an elegant and streamlined single-window interface, it puts all the focus on the images you edit, rather than what's around them. Pixelmator lets you touch up and enhance images, draw or paint, apply dazzling effects, or create advanced compositions with ease.

• Fast, easy to use, not overloaded with useless features Guest • Aug 2017 Disagree   Agree
• It's cheap, and it has all the capabilities of Paint.NET (plus some), and it's even more user-friendly. oddityoverseer13 • Dec 2016 • 0 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac iPhone iPad

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Darktable

Darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers: it manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable. it also enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. This project tries to fill the gap between the many excellent existing free raw converters and image management tools (such as UFRaw or F-Spot).

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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Photoscape

PhotoScape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

Freemium Mac Windows Windows S

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FireAlpaca

FireAlpaca is the image editor that can be used readily and easily. We made it possible to provide the completely free download, in order for our products to be experienced by more users from all over the world. It is available for both Mac and Windows users! We would like you to experience this great opportunity first.

Free Mac Windows

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Fotor

Get ready to take your photos where no photo has gone before with Fotor. Some photos deserve special attention on a full screen. Fotor’s powerful desktop photo editor is the real deal and it has all the tools you need to make every moment you capture look truly great. Download Fotor and start leveraging the fun and versatility with your most powerful platform at home. With Fotor’s state-of-the-art photo processing engine, it’s easy to process high quality photos quickly.

Freemium Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... Windows S Windows Phone Kindle Fire

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Adobe Photoshop Elements

Adobe Photoshop Elements combines power and simplicity so you can make ordinary photos extraordinary; tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and the web; and easily find and view all your photos.

Commercial Mac Windows Windows S

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LazPaint

LazPaint is a free and open image editor that features layers and transparency. It supports the format OpenRaster so it can interoperate with MyPaint, Gimp and Krita. LazPaint has been written with Lazarus / Free Pascal and BGRABitmap.

• It is a raster graphics simple paint program Guest • Nov 2016 Disagree   Agree
• It is a raster graphics simple paint program Guest • May 2018 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

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Photoline

Photoline is an image editor which provides a mostly non-destructive professional workflow. Full vector editing is also integrated. Its image editing is on par with Photoshop. Photoline is compatible with most common Photoshop plugins, such as Topaz, NIK, and FilterForge, and loads Photoshop compatible brush and gradient libraries. For a fraction of the cost (€59) of Photoshop, creatives and photographers receive a wide range of professional image editing and design features.

Commercial Mac Windows Wine

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Acorn

Acorn is a photo editor built for the rest of us. With a simple interface and tools for adding everything from text, shapes, and effects, you can make the perfect picture in seconds and minutes, not hours and days.

Commercial Mac

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Mischief

Infinite Definition. Mischief uses a revolutionary new stroke representation. Get the richness of pixel-based brushes AND the scalability of vectors. Zoom in to any size and get a PERFECT edge. Export at ANY size and resolution.Infinite Canvas Mischief has a truly infinite canvas. Your artwork can grow organically without constraints. There is no need to preset paper sizes or resolutions or to resize the canvas during drawing.

Freemium Mac Windows Wine

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Seashore

Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS Xs Cocoa framework. 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. However, unlike the GIMP, Seashore only aims to serve the basic image editing needs of most computer users, not to provide a replacement for professional image editing products.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last versions, 0.1.9 and 0.5.1, released in 2007 and 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Mac

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Tayasui Sketches

Sketches is a perfect mix of beauty, simplicity and power, a truly unique combination you won't find anywhere else. Sketches is the ideal canvas, perfect for getting down ideas, illustrations, painting, anything your creative mind can imagine.

Freemium Mac iPhone Android Tablet iPad

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ImagePlay

ImagePlay is a rapid prototyping tool for building and testing image processing algorithms. It comes with a variety of over 70 individual image processors which can be combined into complex process chains. EDUCATION: Let your students learn about the basics of image processing. Show the effects of various parameters by manipulating them in real time.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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DrawPile

Drawpile is a drawing program that lets you share the canvas with other users in real time.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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showFoto

ShowFoto is the standalone image editor of the digiKam project. It runs without digiKam images database support, but provides all Image Editor functions.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux KDE

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Pixelitor

Pixelitor is a cross-platform raster graphics editor written in Java. It supports image filters, drawing, layers, multiple undo, etc. Currently its main strength lies in the more than 70 image filters and color adjustments, some of which are unique. Features: - Layers. - Unlimited undo. - Image filters. - Color adjustments. - Drawing.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Pixen

Pixen is a pixel art editor designed for working with low-resolution raster art, such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games. With innovative features like a color palette system, patterns, and high-zoom support, Pixen packs all the tools pixel artists need in an intuitive, Mac-native interface. Pixen also makes creating frame-by-frame animations fun and easy.

Commercial Mac iPad

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CinePaint

CinePaint is a deep paint application that edits EXR, DPX, 16-bit TIFF, JPEG, PNG and many other types of image files. CinePaint is available as a native application for Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD.

Free Open Source Mac Linux

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PixelStyle

PixelStyle Photo Editor 3.5.1 for Mac is an all-in-one Photo Editor for Mac with a huge range of high-end filters: lighting, blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows... Available at http://www.effectmatrix.com/mac-appstore/mac-photo-editor-pixelstyle.htm A full-blown Photo Editor for Mac - Adjust exposure, hue, vibrance and much more. - Delete unwanted objects and retouch photos. - Reduces low light and high ISO noise. - 1 min cut out objects from photos and change photo background.

Freemium Mac

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Flame Painter

Flame Painter is a unique paint program that lets you create original artworks with flame brushes. Flame Painter was created within 'I am an Artist' experimental project. The initial vision was to create an application for professional artists as well as for people without artistic skills who want to create something original. Lack of inspiration is often the reason why people are not creative. However, the tools that we use can become the inspiration for creativity.

Commercial Mac Windows

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