Krita
Open-source painting app for illustration, concept art, comics and 2D animation
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About
Krita is a free, open-source painting application developed by the Krita Foundation within the KDE community, aimed at illustrators, concept artists, comic creators and texture painters. It provides many brush engines with stroke stabilisers, a pop-up palette, a wrap-around mode for seamless textures, layer and filter masks, vector and text tools, and frame-by-frame animation with a timeline and onion skinning. Colour management covers depths up to 32-bit floating point, and G'MIC filters and Python scripting extend it further. Since March 2026 two release lines ship together with the same features: 5.3, built on Qt 5, and 6.0, built on Qt 6 with stronger Wayland support on Linux. Downloads from krita.org are free, while paid copies in several app stores help fund development.
- Many brush engines with stabilisers and a pop-up palette
- Frame-by-frame animation with onion skinning
- Layer, filter and transparency masks
- Wrap-around mode for seamless textures
- Python scripting and G'MIC filters
Before you download
- Copies on Steam, the Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store and Mac App Store are paid and fund development; downloads from krita.org are free.
- Not available for iPad or iPhone.
- Two release lines (5.3 on Qt 5 and 6.0 on Qt 6) are published side by side with the same features.
What it looks like
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