Software · Photo & graphics

KolourPaint

Name: KolourPaint
Author: KDE

KolourPaint is a drawing and painting program, available on Linux.

Completely free
Linux
Open source
No account
No watermark

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by LicitPro manual check, Flathub
License: BSD-2-Clause & LGPL-2.0+ & GFDL-1.2confirmed by Flathub, Wikidata
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by LicitPro manual check, Flathub
Account required: Noconfirmed by LicitPro manual check
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub
Watermark: Noneconfirmed by LicitPro manual check
Ads: No
Platforms: LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub
Publisher: KDE
Latest version: 26.08.3 (5 November 2026)
Latest activity: 6 November 2026

At a glance

All of KolourPaint is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence could not be established at the source: check the terms on the official website.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
No advertising
No watermark on exports
Commercial use allowed

About

KolourPaint is a simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and for simple image editing tasks. Features: Support for drawing various shapes - lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ovals and polygons Curves, lines and text Color picker Selections Rotation, monochrome and other advanced effects

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from LicitPro manual check (account, watermark, free status, ads, commercial use) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 8 November 2026
Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) — 5 November 2026
Last technical check: 5 November 2026
Facts manually checked on 10 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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