Software · Photo & graphics

Paint.NET

An image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.

Completely free
Windows
No account

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Geographic availability: No geographic restriction found in our sources; availability is not checked country by country.

Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by paint.net
Excerpt from paint.net, read on 6 November 2026
amples of this, see: majorgeeks , download.com , and softpedia (to name a few). however, please note that you may not redistribute plugins ( from the forum ) unless you have permission from the plugin's author(s) (this is just to respect standard copyright law, and is not an extra restriction we are Open the page
License: Proprietary, freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: not documented
Commercial use: not documented
Account required: Noconfirmed by paint.net
Credit card required: not documented
Watermark: not documented
Ads: not documented
Platforms: WindowsEstablished by Windows: Confirmed by an official source, Winget
Publisher: dotPDN LLC
Latest version: 5.1.12
Source code: github.com/paintdotnet/release

Overview

Paint.NET is a photo editing program, available on Windows.

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

“Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Paint.NET is completely free: no known feature is locked behind a paid plan.

It is distributed under a proprietary licence: free to use under its terms, which may change; that licence is not an open source licence.

Plans and conditions

No resale: the files may not be resold or redistributed as they are.

Strengths

Photo editing with layers (capability established by the official page)
No account needed

Weaknesses

Only available on Windows

Sources and checks

Facts collected from paint.net (account, free status, platforms) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (limits) — 6 November 2026
Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (source code, publisher, licence, platforms, version) — 6 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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