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About Artweaver
Artweaver is a painting program with a customizable brush engine that simulates real painting tools, combined with image editing features such as layers, effect filters, selections and plugins. It records the whole painting process as events that can be replayed later.
It comes in a free edition and a paid Plus edition with extra features. The Plus license is perpetual and can be used on all computers owned by the licensee. Version 8 brought back the brush palette and added mirror painting to the brush tools.
Strengths
- Free edition with realistic brushes
- Layers, filters, selections and plugins
- Replays the painting process from recorded events
- Perpetual Plus license without subscription
Limitations
- Windows only
- Some features reserved for the paid Plus edition
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree edition, with a paid perpetual Plus license for extra features.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Windows
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Windows users who want a free natural-brush painting program
- Categories
- Image editors
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Artweaver
Compare allSoftware that can replace Artweaver for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Krita
A free digital painting program built for illustrators, with over a hundred brushes ready to use.
Krita is free and open source on Windows, macOS and Linux, with over 100 brushes, stabilisers and vector tools, and needs plenty of RAM for large canvases.
Corel Painter
A digital painting program from Corel that simulates natural media brushes for illustration and photo painting.
Corel Painter adds macOS support and natural media brush simulation, but is paid only, with a cheaper Essentials edition and extra brush packs sold separately.
ArtRage
A natural-media painting program with realistic paint blending and textures for desktop, tablet and phone.
ArtRage adds macOS, Android and iOS versions with realistic oil and watercolor blending, but is paid with no free edition, only low-cost Lite and mobile editions.
Rebelle
Painting software for Windows and Mac that simulates real color mixing, wet diffusion and drying.
Rebelle adds Mac support and simulates wet paint mixing and drying for watercolor and oil, but needs a paid license after the trial.
MyPaint
A distraction-free painting app for graphics tablets, with an infinite canvas and deeply configurable brushes.
MyPaint is free and open source on Windows and Linux, offering an infinite canvas and configurable brushes, though its last stable release dates from 2020.
Clip Studio Paint
A commercial drawing and painting app for illustration, comics and animation across desktop and mobile.
Clip Studio Paint runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and Chromebook with comic and animation tools, but is paid after the trial and closed source.
Artweaver as an alternative
Listings that name Artweaver as an alternative.
Kleki
A free painting tool that runs in the web browser for quick sketches and drawings.
Artweaver is a freemium Windows painting program with realistic brushes, layers, filters and plugins, with some features reserved for the paid Plus edition.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
GIMP
The long-running free image editor for photo retouching, compositing and general pixel work.
Paint.NET
A fast Windows image editor that sits between Microsoft Paint and a full photo suite.
Pinta
A small painting and image editor modelled on Paint.NET 3, and the closest thing to it on macOS and Linux.
Drawpile
Draw and animate together on a shared canvas.
LazPaint
A free cross-platform image editor with raster and vector layers, similar to Paint.NET.
