Worth learning if you can spare the time but arguably not best for children or for quick annotations/sketches. Krita: A free pro-grade drawing tool for both Mac and PC that has some hefty features designed to produce serious art.The app also supports layers, so you can re-edit them freely.” At the same time, you can and text onto images as you want. With it you can sketch and crop, rotate, scale images very easily. Paint 2: Says the developers of this free but slightly more sophisticated app: “Paint 2 is an easy-to-use drawing tool and image editor which can help you to draw pictures and edit your existing photos.As such, Pinta subtly expands on Paint’s original feature set without being overwhelming or requiring expert knowledge. Pinta: Somewhat confusingly, Pinta is a free, open source swap-in for the Paint.Net app that was originally created as a more powerful swap-in replacement for the original Paint on Windows.

It hasn’t been updated for a few years but still runs great on modern Macs.

Paintbrush: A free, open source swap-in to bring Paint to the Mac.

Here are some free alternatives if you downright can’t live without a splash of Paint in your life. Some people even produce proper art with it.

You can draw quick diagrams for emailing. After all, they invented this kind of desktop app with MacPaint back in 1984.įor all its sins Microsoft Paint – supplied with every version of Windows since 3.1 – has all kinds of uses. Nobody knows why Apple has never introduced a painting app to OS X.

Mac version of microsoft paint