- 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.



Rebelle is described as 'Simulates watercolor, acrylic, and dry media artwork with real-world color blending, wet diffusion, paint drying, custom brushes, and textured canvas' and is a digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Rebelle for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPad, Android and iPhone apps. The best Rebelle alternative is Krita, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rebelle are Adobe Photoshop, MyPaint, Clip Studio Paint and PaintTool SAI.



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Fluid Paint is an open-source web app that simulates real paint using a dynamic brush that is easily controlled by moue and using simple parameters.


Fluid Paint is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Rebelle.
Qaquarelle is a very young opensource Qt4-based painting application that is supposed to provide a native way of painting with emulated traditional instruments, including watercolor simulation, full support for tablets and OpenGL-based processing in GPU.


Drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes. It belongs to the group of applications like Krita and MyPaint, but with a limited number of features. The main focus is on simplicity.


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.






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.


PixelStyle Photo Editor for Mac is an all-in-one photo editing and graphic design software, providing professional high-quality photo processing tools to edit the photos, enhance and touch up photos on Mac OS X.




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.



Graphiter is an easy to use, straight forward, and powerful Sketching App. Its aim is to reproduce a real life sketching workflow using simple tools, such as, a Graphite Pencil, a Blend tool and an Eraser.




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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.



Responsive, quick and dynamic.