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Vara

Vara is a drawing and painting program, available on Linux: brushes and pen tablets.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

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

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: 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
  • “Drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

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

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes. It belongs to the group of applications like Krita and MyPaint, but with a limited number of features. The main focus is on simplicity. Smooth and pressure-sensitive brushes Any number of layers 32-bit high dynamic range workflow Linear RGB colorspace with gamma correction Beginner-friendly, but advanced options available

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) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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