Paint.NET Alternatives

Paint.NET is described as 'Free image editor for Windows, offering layer support, plugins, special effects, and portable use without installation. Lightweight and ad-free' and is a leading Image Editor in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Paint.NET for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Paint.NET alternative is Pinta, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Paint.NET are Krita, GIMP, Adobe Photoshop and Pixelmator.

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Paint.NET alternatives are mainly Image Editors, but if you're looking for Photo Editors or Digital Painting Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Android, Mac, iPad, Online, iPhone and Android Tablet. 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 Paint.NET.
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  1. Photo Variants icon
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    Photo Variants is innovative photo editing software for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Chasys Draw IES is a suite of applications including a layer-based image editor with animation, icon editing support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter), a fast image viewer (Chasys...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    It has a lot of effects but can be complicated to use.

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    • Chasys Draw IES is Free and ProprietaryPaint.NET is also Free and Proprietary
  3. PixaFlux icon
     11 likes

    PixaFlux is a node based image processing application. PixaFlux creates and edits images in a non destructive way, using a node graph to organize the workflow without restrictions of size, position or color mode.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Sagelight icon
     2 likes

    Photo editing program that as well as the usual tools has some unique & cool features too.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. PixBuilder icon
     18 likes

    Free Photo Editing Software for PC

    PixBuilder Studio is a free image editing software program for digital photo editing, images processing, and resizing. For digital photo editing, you can use its many professional quality functions. PixBuilder Studio allows you to use the foll.

    140 PixBuilder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Drawing icon
     13 likes

    This application is a basic image editor, similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  7. Serif PhotoPlus icon
     17 likes

    PhotoPlus is the free, feature-restricted image editing software by Serif that enables you to fix and enhance your digital photos; paint and blend with brushes; and export you photos for print, email, and the web.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. LunaPic icon
     15 likes

    LunaPic is an online photo editor that allows you to edit, crop, rotate and resize images, add effects to your photos, create slideshows, animation and collagesand convert video to gifs.

    176 LunaPic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    • Dropbox
     
  9. Our Paint icon
     9 likes

    Our Paint is a featureless but programmable painting program.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • itch.io
    • Android
     
  10. PhoXo icon
     14 likes

    PhoXo is small and free image editing application. It's tiny, fast, easy to use, can be treated as a mini PhotoShop. Its features include layers, undo, over 50 special effects, batch processing, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools for selecting, crop, painting...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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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