Alternatives to Rebelle
Painting software for Windows and Mac that simulates real color mixing, wet diffusion and drying. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Rebelle
Painting software for Windows and Mac that simulates real color mixing, wet diffusion and drying.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Rebelle.
Corel Painter
A digital painting program from Corel that simulates natural media brushes for illustration and photo painting.
Corel Painter is paid Windows and macOS software simulating natural media brushes, with a cheaper Essentials edition, though its current version dates from 2023.
ArtRage
A natural-media painting program with realistic paint blending and textures for desktop, tablet and phone.
ArtRage offers realistic paint blending on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, adding mobile and low-cost Lite editions that Rebelle lacks.
Krita
A free digital painting program built for illustrators, with over a hundred brushes ready to use.
Krita is free and open source with over 100 brushes on Windows, macOS and Linux, but it does not focus on simulating wet paint diffusion and drying.
MyPaint
A distraction-free painting app for graphics tablets, with an infinite canvas and deeply configurable brushes.
MyPaint is free and open source for Windows and Linux, with a pigment mixing model and infinite canvas, though its last stable release was in 2020.
Clip Studio Paint
A commercial drawing and painting app for illustration, comics and animation across desktop and mobile.
Clip Studio Paint is paid illustration software on desktop and mobile, with brushes imitating traditional media plus comic and animation tools.
Paintstorm Studio
A paid digital painting program with deeply customizable brushes for Windows, macOS, Linux and iPad.
Paintstorm Studio is paid software with very detailed brush customization on Windows, macOS, Linux and iPad, focused less on physical paint simulation.
Procreate
A digital painting and illustration app for iPad, sold as a one-time purchase.
Procreate is a one-time-purchase painting app for iPad only, so switching means moving from a Windows or Mac computer to an iPad.
Artweaver
A digital painting program for Windows with realistic brushes, layers and basic image editing tools.
Artweaver is a freemium Windows painting program with realistic brushes and a perpetual Plus license, with no macOS version.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Tayasui Sketches
A drawing and painting app with realistic brushes for iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android.
Infinite Painter
A painting and sketching app for Android and iOS with natural brushes and realistic blending.
Sketchbook
Drawing and painting app for sketching and illustration on macOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
FireAlpaca
A free, lightweight digital painting program for Windows and Mac with new brushes each week.
Adobe Fresco
Adobe's free drawing and painting app for iPad and iPhone, built for stylus and touch.
Open Brush
A free, open-source room-scale VR painting app, continued by the community from Google's Tilt Brush.
