Microsoft Paint Alternatives

Microsoft Paint is described as 'Basic, ad-free editor bundled with Windows for bitmap, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF files. Features AI powered features, layer support, offline use, and no registration' and is a very popular digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Paint for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best Microsoft Paint alternative is Krita, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Microsoft Paint are Paint.NET, Pinta, Photopea and MyPaint.

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Microsoft Paint alternatives are mainly Image Editors, but if you're looking for Digital Painting Tools or Photo Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Digital Painting, iPhone, Mac, Kindle Fire, Chrome OS, iPad and Online. 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 Microsoft Paint.
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  1. Tux Paint icon
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    Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). Tux Paint is used in schools around the world as a computer literacy drawing activity. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging...

    41 Tux Paint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • Linux Mobile
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  2. Sumo Paint icon
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    Sumo Paint is a powerful image editor with a long-standing history as a fully capable Photoshop clone in the browser. Being designed for the browser, it's accessible on practically any system and loads much faster than most comparable desktop tools while still providing core...

    110 Sumo Paint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  3. KolourPaint icon
     43 likes

    KolourPaint is a simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and for simple image editing tasks.

    42 KolourPaint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Mac
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  4. Flame Painter icon
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    Flame Painter is a unique paint program that lets you create original artworks with flame brushes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  5. PaintFE icon
     5 likes

    A fast, lightweight raster image editor for Windows. Features layers, blend modes, GPU-accelerated filters, gradients, mesh warp, brushes, selection tools, adjustments, animated GIF/APNG support, and a built-in Rhai scripting engine. Single portable executable, no install required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. An image and stencil editor for artists. Work with layers, remove backgrounds, use a gallery, pressure-sensitive drawing, customize colors/effects, and edit offline for full creative control.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. InfiniPaint icon
     7 likes

    InfiniPaint is a collaborative, infinite space, infinite zoom, canvas note-taking/drawing app. Unlike many other infinite canvas apps, although there is a specific zoom-in level limit, there is no zoom-out limit (at least up until the point your computer runs out of memory).

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Online
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  8. LunaPic icon
     15 likes

    Web-based photo editor for cropping, resizing, and rotating images, adding various effects and filters, drawing, text overlays, creating collages, slideshows, converting video to GIFs, sharing edits online, and exporting in multiple formats without registration.

    176 LunaPic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Dropbox
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  9. PhotoPad icon
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    PhotoPad picture editor is the fastest and most fun way to edit your digital photos. PhotoPad is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive photo editors available.

    106 PhotoPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • Kindle Fire
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