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Krita

Krita is a drawing and painting program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android: brushes and pen tablets.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS, Linux and Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Krita is a drawing and painting program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing: brushes and pen tablets.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Digital Painting, Creative Freedom” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “2D animation and features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management support, an advanced brush engine, non-destructive layers and masks, group-based layer management, vector artwork support and switchable…” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Krita is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Drawing and digital painting (capability established by the official page)
  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

About

This flatpak is community maintained. Please report Flatpak specific bugs that do not occur on the upstream AppImage at https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.krita/issues. Krita is the full-featured digital art studio. It is perfect for sketching and painting, and presents an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters. Krita is a great choice for creating concept art, comics, textures for rendering and matte paintings. Krita supports many colorspaces like RGB and CMYK at 8 and 16 bits integer channels, as well as 16 and 32 bits floating point channels. Have fun painting with the advanced brush engines, amazing filters and many handy features that make Krita enormously productive.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Comptoir du Libre (source code, licence) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Homebrew (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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