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Krita for Mac

Open-Source painting app.

Free
In English
Version 5.2.6
4.2
Based on 17 user rates

Krita overview

Krita is a free, Open-Source painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry. Krita has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike.

Features:
  • User Interface - An intuitive user interface that stays out of your way. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow. Once you have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. You can also create your own shortcuts for commonly used tools.
  • Brush Stabilizers - Have a shaky hand? Add a stabilizer to your brush to smoothen it out. Krita includes 3 different ways to smooth and stabilize your brush strokes. There is even a dedicated Dynamic Brush tool where you can add drag and mass.
  • Pop-up Palette - Quickly pick your color and brush by right-clicking on the canvas. You can also use Krita’s tagging system to swap out the available brushes that are displayed. The ring outside of the color selector contains the most recently used colors. These settings can be configured through the preferences.
  • Brush Engines - Customize your brushes with 9 unique brush engines. Each engine has a large amount of settings to customize your brush. Each brush engine is made to satisfy a specific need such as the Color Smudge engine, Shape engine, Particle engine, and even a filter engine. Once you are done creating your brushes, you can save them and organize them with Krita’s unique tagging system.
  • Wrap-around Mode - It is easy to create seamless textures and patterns now. Press the ‘W’ key while painting to toggle wrap-around mode. The image will make references of itself along the x and y axis. Continue painting and watch all of the references update instantly. No more clunky offsetting to see how your image repeats itself.
  • Resource Manager - Import brush and texture packs from other artists to expand your tool set. If you create some brushes that you love, share them with the world by creating your own bundles. Check out the brush packs that are available in the Resource area.

Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

What’s new in version 5.2.6

  • Fixed a critical error with pass-through group layers.

Krita for Mac

Free
In English
Version 5.2.6
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What needs improvements

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Krita qualities

Value
2.0
Ease of use
1.0
Features
2.0
Reliability
2.0
Customer support
3.0

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4.2

(12 Reviews of Krita)

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  • User Ratings

TomM4006
TomM4006
Mar 8 2022
5.0.2
0.0
Mar 8 2022
0.0
Version: 5.0.2
Terrible software. Too complicated, too many settings, too many bugs. I was looking for a paint.net (Windows) alternative for Mac. Even drawing just a straight line brings strange results.
ppioterw
ppioterw
Jul 23 2020
4.2.8
2.0
Jul 23 2020
2.0
Version: 4.2.8
If you encounter a bug (which you will like every 15 minutes) you won't find any help on the internet or in the terrible, TERRIBLE docs. Often while mentioning a bug you'll hear "yeah we know about it" and that's it. Spare yourself stress and get any thing else. It needs to be redesigned and rewritten from scratch.
fotoroberto
fotoroberto
Jun 6 2020
4.2.8
5.0
Jun 6 2020
5.0
Version: 4.2.8
nice surprise…
27hattiek
27hattiek
Apr 27 2020
4.2.8
3.0
Apr 27 2020
3.0
Version: 4.2.8
It's good for doodling, but it is not at all good for animation, despite what it claims. It also makes bad digital art.
ljbullock2002
ljbullock2002
Feb 20 2020
4.2.8
1.0
Feb 20 2020
1.0
Version: 4.2.8
Krita freaking sucks. I just spent the past couple of days working on this piece, and everything is just so laggy on mac. It won't let me use the paintbrush, or it won't let me copy and paste a simple layer! I love the brushes, they are the easiest to use.... but I don't think I can use this application anymore.
Saratxe
Saratxe
Oct 2 2024
5.2.6
5.0
Oct 2 2024
5.0
Version: 5.2.6
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Apr 6 2023
5.1.5
5.0
Apr 6 2023
5.0
Version: 5.1.5
Kongsgar
Kongsgar
Sep 23 2022
5.1.1
4.0
Sep 23 2022
4.0
Version: 5.1.1
ppioterw
ppioterw
Jul 23 2020
2.0
Jul 23 2020
2.0
Version: null
pallasravanthi2
pallasravanthi2
Jun 27 2020
5.0
Jun 27 2020
5.0
Version: null
dkgriffin
dkgriffin
Jun 9 2020
5.0
Jun 9 2020
5.0
Version: null
fotoroberto
fotoroberto
Jun 6 2020
5.0
Jun 6 2020
5.0
Version: null
27hattiek
27hattiek
Apr 27 2020
3.0
Apr 27 2020
3.0
Version: null
ljbullock2002
ljbullock2002
Feb 20 2020
1.0
Feb 20 2020
1.0
Version: null
marieseltenrych
marieseltenrych
Nov 12 2019
5.0
Nov 12 2019
5.0
Version: null
viniskate
viniskate
Jun 9 2019
4.5
Jun 9 2019
4.5
Version: null
DragonMaster
DragonMaster
Feb 26 2018
5.0
Feb 26 2018
5.0
Version: null
kitkat-26
kitkat-26
Sep 14 2016
5.0
Sep 14 2016
5.0
Version: null
Tericks
Tericks
Sep 9 2016
5.0
Sep 9 2016
5.0
Version: null
ash-f
ash-f
Jul 11 2016
5.0
Jul 11 2016
5.0
Version: null
hollykurpiela
hollykurpiela
Jul 4 2016
2.0
Jul 4 2016
2.0
Version: null
ggt667
ggt667
Jun 30 2016
5.0
Jun 30 2016
5.0
Version: null