Corel Painter Alternatives

Corel Painter is described as 'Simulates traditional media with realistic textures, customizable brushes, and extensive format support for professional artists' and is a popular digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Corel Painter for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android apps. The best Corel Painter alternative is GIMP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Corel Painter are Krita, Adobe Photoshop, Affinity and Photopea.

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  1. Leonardo icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Black Ink icon
     21 likes

    Black Ink is a digital painting software that uses your computer's rendering hardware to provide a perfectly responsive experience no matter your picture's size.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Pixia icon
     12 likes

    Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. With Canvas Max, not only can you sketch, illustrate, and design on an infinite canvas, but you also have the power to zoom infinitely.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. Flame Painter icon
     7 likes

    Flame Painter is a unique paint program that lets you create original artworks with flame brushes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  6. Our Paint icon
     9 likes

    Our Paint is a featureless but programmable painting program.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • itch.io
    • Android
     
  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
     
  8. GPS (aka Gimp Paint Studio) is a collection of brushes, patterns, color gradients, accompanying tool presets and dynamics. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GIMP
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Artecture enables you to sketch, draw and paint like never before. If you love to draw, regardless you are an amateur or a pro, this drawing app provides all the tools and brushes that you’d love.

    68 Artecture Draw, Sketch, Paint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  11. 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 (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  12. QAquarelle icon
     12 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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