Krita
A free digital painting program built for illustrators, with over a hundred brushes ready to use.
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Other download sites
Run by third parties, not by The KDE community. Prefer the official page above when it works.
Package managers
- winget
winget install --id KDE.Krita - Chocolatey
choco install krita - Homebrew
brew install --cask krita - Flathub
flatpak install flathub org.kde.krita - Snap Store
snap install krita
About Krita
Krita is a painting application rather than a photo editor. It ships with more than a hundred professionally made brushes, three kinds of brush stabiliser for shaky hands, and a canvas that can be rotated, mirrored and filled with assistants for perspective work.
It also covers comic and animation work: vector tools and speech bubble templates for panels, layer management, and a frame-by-frame animation timeline. The interface is built from dockers you can rearrange and save as workspaces.
Strengths
- Over 100 brushes preloaded, covering a wide range of effects
- Three brush stabilisers plus a dedicated Dynamic Brush tool with drag and mass
- Over 30 dockers, customisable layouts saved as workspaces, dark and light themes
- Built-in vector and text tools for comic panels and speech bubbles
Limitations
- It is a painting tool, not a photo editor or a page layout program
- Large canvases with many layers need plenty of RAM
- The macOS build historically trails the Windows and Linux ones
Details
- Pricing
- Free · Free and open source under the GPL. The Microsoft Store and Steam builds are paid, as a way of supporting the project; the download from krita.org is free.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- The KDE community
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Digital painting and illustration without buying a subscription
- Categories
- Image and vector editors
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Graphics); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 4 sources on file.
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Paint.NET
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