Plus, with the huge amount of brush options the app comes with, you can easily create a lot of great looking digital art. It even has the spray can tool, just like Microsoft Paint. Paint X Lite comes with tools like the pencil, color picker, fill bucket, and even a text tool. Paint X LiteĪnother app that you can use as an alternative to Paint, Paint X Lite comes with a lot of the features you would find in the Paint app, along with a some extra features that can come in really handy. Overall, the app is a good alternative to Paint, and is very similar to what Microsoft offers with Paint on Windows.ĭownload ($25, 15 day free trial, free version also available) 3. You can download a free trial of the full version of the app from their website, and try it free for 15 days, before deciding on whether you really need the extra features or not. The app is available in both free, and paid flavors, however, the free version does not support layers, which is an essential feature for any serious art work. The app comes with a very basic set of tools, but can be used to create some really great artwork, thanks to the configurability offered with each tool. Similar to MS Paint, Mischief offers the basic pen, eraser, and shape tools, but does not borrow much else from its Windows’ counterpart. The tools offer some configurability, and you can edit the brush size, and the opacity value for every brush offered by the app. Mischief is another cool Paint alternative that you can use on your Mac. Staying true to the macOS philosophy, Paintbrush supports tabs, so you can create multiple drawings, without having to launch separate instances of the app. The only bad thing about this app, is that the toolbar is a separate floating window, and there is no option to use the app in a “single window mode”.

It offers all the basic tools you’d expect from a Microsoft Paint alternative, and can save files into most widely used formats, including JPEG, PNG, BMP, and more. When you launch the app, you can choose the dimensions of the image you want to create there are presets for various sizes, or you can go with a custom size. By its very design (and similarity to Microsoft Paint), the app is not really suitable for creating high quality art on your computer, however, for most simple image creation tasks, the app will work perfectly fine. Just like Microsoft Paint, the interface is incredibly simple, and easy to use. The free app is exactly the same as its Windows’ counterpart, and has all the tools you’d find in the Paint app, right down to the spray can.

If you’re looking for an app that works exactly the way Paint does on Windows, look no further than Paintbrush.

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