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Painting tools

Top 22 Free and Open Source Linux Painting Tools

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

We have the selected the finest painting tools for Linux.

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Painting tools

InfiniPaint – infinite canvas software

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

InfiniPaint is a collaborative, infinite space, infinite zoom, canvas note-taking/drawing app.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel PHOTO-PAINT

April 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor, or photo editing software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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Drawing – simple image editor

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

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

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dibuja – simple to use paint program

October 31, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

dibuja is a simple to use paint program like Paintbrush for Mac or classic MS Paint, but for Linux.

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Alchemy – non-orthodox painting software

October 29, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Alchemy is non-orthodox painting software experimenting with alternative ways of drawing.

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Drawpile – draw, paint, sketch and animate

October 23, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Drawpile is a collaborative drawing program that lets multiple people draw, sketch, paint and animate on the same canvas simultaneously.

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Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

October 2, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Textual Paint is a TUI (Text User Interface) image editor, inspired by MS Paint.

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BlockPaint – terminal-based painting tool

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

BlockPaint is a painting program that allows you to draw pixel graphics in the terminal using the mouse.

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Vara – minimalist digital painting tool

July 24, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Vara is a drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes.

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Painting tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Paint

June 21, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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VPaint – experimental prototype based on the Vector Graphics Complex

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

VPaint is an experimental prototype based on the Vector Graphics Complex (VGC).

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CorePaint – paint app for C Suite

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

CorePaint is a simple painting app for C Suite. C Suite is an app suite of core apps based on Qt. It’s written in C++.

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Milton – infinite-canvas paint program

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Milton is software lets you draw, sketch and paint. There is no save button, your work is persistent with unlimited undo.

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CinePaint – deep paint image retouching tool

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

CinePaint is a collection of free open source software tools for painting, manipulation and image processing. It’s similar to Adobe Photoshop.

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Pinta – drawing and image editing software

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Pinta is an image manipulation program that mimics the usability of Paint.Net. It aims to provide a simplified experience for casual users.

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KolourPaint – free raster graphics editor by KDE

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program by KDE.

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LazPaint – cross platform image editor with layers and transparency

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

LazPaint is an image editor written in the Lazarus (Free Pascal) programming language. The software uses the BGRABitmap library.

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Tux Paint – drawing software designed for children

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Tux Paint is a free and open source, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6).

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GrafX2 – bitmap paint program

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

GrafX2 is billed as the ultimate 256-color bitmap paint program. This software includes a very large number of tools and effects.

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