SketchBook Alternatives

SketchBook is described as 'Sketchbook drawing software features an artist-friendly, gesture-based user interface that is so fast and intuitive even new users can be productive within minutes' and is a very popular digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to SketchBook for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android apps. The best SketchBook alternative is Krita, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SketchBook are Adobe Photoshop, Photopea, MyPaint and Procreate.

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SketchBook alternatives are mainly Digital Painting Tools, but if you're looking for Image Editors or Photo Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android, Linux, Free and Windows + Free. 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 SketchBook.
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  1. Verve Painter icon
     19 likes

    Verve (Dictionary: Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition...) is the result of a curious idea I had to try using the graphics hardware to run a fluid dynamics simulation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Mental Canvas icon
     2 likes

    Mental Canvas Draw re-imagines drawing for the digital age by augmenting it with spatial strokes, 3D navigation, and animations — all drawn with ease of pencil and paper.

    19 Mental Canvas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • iPad
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  3. JugiPaint icon
     8 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. MyBrushes icon
     22 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  5. Sketchpad icon
     12 likes

    Whether you’re working on a school poster or brainstorming your next comic book character, Sketchpad makes it easy to bring your ideas to life. Easily draw, edit photos, or design your next business card. Craft images for social media posts, digital ads, paper, or even apparel.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. FotoSketcher icon
     26 likes

    Turn photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds, automatically, locally and for free.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Mac
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  7. 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
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  8. QAquarelle icon
     11 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Leonardo icon
     22 likes

    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.

    110 Leonardo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Clover Paint icon
     1 like

    Clover Paint is a feature rich painting app with deep complexity. With Clover Paint, you are bringing a sketchbook with customizable canvas size, highly sophisticated brush and layer system, plus custom hotkeys and shortcuts for productivity.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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