The Paint application for Windows is a classic, an application with which you can make real works of art as long as we have adequate patience and knowledge, although this is not its main use. Unfortunately, Paint is only available for Windows.
If you are looking for alternatives to Paint for Mac that are free, you have come to the right place. Although the macOS ecosystem does not have as many applications as Windows, we can find applications that are only compatible with this system, some of which are interesting alternatives to Paint.
Here we show you the best alternatives to Paint for Mac and that also they are completely free.
Paintbrush
We named Paintbrush in the first place because it is an application that for many years had a version for windows and it is practically a tracing of Paint but with another user interface.
This application is ideal for those Mac users who have the need to make simple drawings, add text, highlight areas of the image with squares or circles, paint with spray, erase ... the same functions that we can find in Paint for Windows.
When saving the documents we create, we can use the extensions jpeg, bmp, png, tiff and gif. The latest available version of Painbrush is number 2.6 and it is compatible as of OS X 10.10 and you can download through this link.
In this other link, you will also find versions for OS X 10.5 Leopard or higher and OS X 10.4 Tiger or higher.
Tux Paint
Tux Paint is a fun, easy-to-use, open source drawing program. Includes drawing tools, rubber stamp support, 'Magic' special effects tools, multiple undo / redo, one-click save, thumbnail browser to load, sound effects ...
If we take a look at all features that the application offers us, we verify that more than an alternative to Paint is an alternative to a Photoshop Lite.
You can download Tux Paint for free through its web page and is available in more than 15 languages. This application is supported from OS X 10.10 onwards, includes OS X 11 Big Sur.
FireAlpaca
Behind this curious name we find another free application that, in addition to being available for Mac, also has a version for Windows. Its simple tools and controls allow us draw from complex illustrations to doodles on the screen just like we can do with Paint.
FireAlpaca is more than an alternative to Paint, a alternative to GIMP or Photoshop but with fewer functions. Although at first it may be a bit difficult to get hold of it, if we dedicate time to it, we will see how it is an excellent option to consider as an alternative to Paint in Windows.
We can download FireAlpaca through the page of the Developer. This application is available in 10 languages among which we find in Spanish.
deskscribble
Another interesting application to consider when looking for alternatives to Paint for Mac is Deskcribble, an application that not only allows us to draw any object freehand, but we can also use it for a blackboard, for our children to entertain themselves by scribbling, to make presentations, annotations ...
This application is available for your download completely freevia the Mac App Store, it does not include any in-app purchases and is a great replacement for Paint if you've just switched from Windows to Mac.
Paint S
Paint S is a drawing tool and image editor easy to use draw anything that comes to mind or edit our photos to change the size, crop, rotate, trace on them ...
In addition, we can also add horizontal and curved texts about the pictures. The app supports layers as well, so you can freely re-edit them. With Pain X we can:
Open and save files in tiff, jpeg, png, bmp formats among others.
Supports all kinds of tools, including fill, eyedropper, line, curve, rectangle, ellipse, text, etc.
Compatible with layers and transparencies.
Remove unwanted elements from your images.
Paste images from or to any application installed on your computer.
Save the layered images and re-edit them in the future.
Paint S is too small for you, you can try the full versionPaintPro which has a price of 14,99 euros.
Of all the alternatives that we show you in this article that are most similar to Paint is Pinta, an application that we can download for free and does not include any type of purchase within the application and that also, it is also available for Windows, Linux, and BSD.
Pinta puts at our disposal the same drawing tools that we can find in Paint, it allows us to apply up to 35 presets and effects, it is available in more than 55 languages (including Spanish), it supports layers ... You can download this application from its web page.
PaintX for Mac
Paint X is a painting application to draw, color and edit images just like we can do in Paint for Windows. We can also use Paint X as if it were a digital sketch pad, to add text and designs to other photos, design projects ...
The large number of digital brushes available allow us make strokes of different types to be able to digitally translate our ideas if we have enough patience.
In addition, it also allows us to perform basic editing tasks such as rotating and resizing images, cropping them, filling colored objects, copying and pasting content from files.
It supports the click and drag function, it allows us to open multiple files together, it supports files .png, .tiff, bmp, jpeg, gif...
Paint X is available for your download completely free and includes ads, ads that we can eliminate using the in-app purchase that it includes and that has a price of 4,99 euros.
Sheashore is a open source app that allows us to easily and quickly edit our images through layers as if it were Photoshop or GIMP and includes a large number of functions of these applications with which we can obtain impressive results.
This application has always been available through GitHub but to reach a much wider audience, the creator of the application included it in the Mac App Store, from where we can download completely free and it is compatible with all versions of macOS available on the market.
It does not include any type of in-app purchases. If you like the application, the developer invites us to publish an opinion as honest as possible in order to continue with the development of the application.
