Krita Alternatives

Krita is described as 'A free, open-source painting program for professional artists offering customizable UI, 9 brush engines, layer support, and color management' and is a leading digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Krita for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPad, Android and iPhone apps. The best Krita alternative is GIMP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Krita are Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET, SketchBook and MyPaint.

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Krita 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 Online, Free, iPad, Linux, Android, Mac and Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Krita.
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  1. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Photokit icon
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    PhotoKit.com is integrated with a powerful online photo editor, smart brush, image quality enhancement, exposure repairment and image filters, splicing, cropping, transformation, painting, resizing, and can add text, shape, sticker, frame, round corners, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. Touch screen software – Corel Paint it! touch is touch screen software designed for Windows 7 touch-enabled computers. Draw, paint and get creative with your touch screen PC.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. PaintStar icon
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    PaintStar is a versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Charcoal icon
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    • 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
     
  6. Fluid Paint icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. 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.

    31 VanceAI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. imEditor icon
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    ImEditor is a simple image editor, supporting PNG, JPEG, WEBP, BMP, and ICO file types. It offers several tools to easily modify an image.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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