Top 15 Paintbrush Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

Paintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years.

1. Hej Stylus!

Hej Stylus! Hej Stylus! is the first stroke stabilizer software for mac OS X 10.8.5+. Hej Stylus! makes your cursor behave like a flexible brush - for example a pin striping brush. The effect varies with the chosen radius – from dangling out little dents in your lineart to knocking out any......

2. ToolWiz Pretty Photo

ToolWiz Pretty Photo ToolWiz Pretty Photo is a free powerful lightweight image editor. With just few clicks on this free tool, you can edit photos, create photo collage, and make them look the way you want them to be, and much prettier. Yes, it is that simple. ToolWiz Pretty Photo does not only......

3. Krita

Krita Krita is a complete creative sketching and painting application with advanced, commercial quality features. It's free, open-source and available across all major desktop platforms.HIGHLIGHTSUser Interface - An intuitive user interface that stays out of your way. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow. Once......

4. Milton

Milton Milton is an open source application that lets you Just Paint®.There are no pixels, you can paint with (almost) infinite detail. It feels raster-based but it works with vectors. It is not an image editor. It is not a vector graphics editor. It is a program that lets you draw,......

5. Paintstorm

Paintstorm Paintstorm Studio - Professional software for digital painting and drawing Paintstorm Studio is created for professional digital painting. And a major role in this program play the brushes. We did our best so that you can easily and quickly adjust the brushes suitable for your painting style. Anyone who......

6. MyPaint

MyPaint MyPaint is a fast painting program with an emphasis on full-screen use. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it. MyPaint supports pressure or tilt sensitive graphic tablets and comes......

7. Enlight

Enlight An addictive and creative photographic experience. The only all-in-one iPhoneography app for creating masterpieces.......

8. Microsoft Expression Design

Microsoft Expression Design Microsofts professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool for web images. More oriented towards editing web graphics and creating XAML rather than print graphics. Expression Design is not available as an individual product, but rather as part of the Expression Studio suite. It requires the .NET framework.......

9. Amazon Paint

Amazon Paint Amazon Paint, the industry standard paint system, has been used on such films as Shrek, Moulin Rouge, Monsters Inc, The Matrix, Titanic, The Fifth Element, and Starship Troopers. With an extensive palette of tools in addition to the flexibility of user customizable scripting and macro editing, Amazon is the final......

10. PictBear

PictBear PictBear is an image editor and paint program that is very friendly toward the beginning user, PictBear is very straightforward and easy to use no matter what your skill level is.......

11. Leonardo

Leonardo • Swift workflowLeonardo has a beautiful and easy-to-use interface that will scale to any screen and works great for both left- and right-handed people.• Blazing speedLeonardo starts in less than half a second. It saves your file in a blink and makes it possible to paint with a large brush......

12. Adobe Photoshop Touch

Adobe Photoshop Touch Transform images with core Photoshop features in an app designed for tablets.Combine images, apply professional effects, share results with friends and family through Facebook – all from the convenience of your tablet.• Use popular Photoshop features designed for the tablet such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to......

13. ImageForge

ImageForge - ImageForge Standard Freeware Edition:ImageForge provides you with a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics.Create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and......

14. GIMPshop

GIMPshop GIMPshop is essentially Gimp with some cosmetic changes. The Gimp’s menu structure and naming conventions are a constant source of frustration for users accustomed to Photoshop. gimpshop.com is owned by a greedy domain squatter and NOT the developer. Please have everyone you know update their bookmarks.GIMPshop shares all of GIMP's......

15. Lineform

Lineform Easy and affordable vector drawing for your Mac. Lineform is a completely new drawing program. Fast, lean and Universal, Lineform offers powerful features in an uncluttered interface that’s designed to help you get work done!......