This simple image editor, similar to Microsoft Paint, is aiming at the GNOME desktop.

PNG, JPEG and BMP files are supported.

Besides GNOME, the app is well integrated in traditional-looking desktops, as well as elementaryOS.

It should also be compatible with the Pinephone and Librem 5 smartphones.

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Recommended

You can install it from flathub.org using the instructions on this page.

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• Ubuntu 18.04, 20.10 and 21.04: PPA
• Gentoo package from an external overlay
• "Snap" package

See here to install and test the app from source code.

If your language is not here, or is incompletely translated, you can contribute to the translations.

*Completion percentages correspond to the next major version, still in development.

**Concerning the "original version" in english: all the labels are here, but i'm not a native english speaker, so there might be mistakes. If you find incorrect english labels, please report an issue about it.

(last update: version 1.0.0)

Tools in italic can be disabled.

These tools have many options (colors, antialiasing, size, gradients, dashes, outline style, …) that are not listed here.

• Pencil
• Brushes (pressure sensitive):
  • Simple round brush
  • Hairy brush
  • Airbrush
  • Calligraphic nibs
• Eraser
• Highlighter
• Line
• Curve
• Insert text
• Insert points, to help captioning
• Shape:
  • rectangle
  • rounded rectangle
  • circle
  • oval
  • polygon
  • free shape
• Color picker
• Paint

These tools allow you to define an area (rectangle or free), which you can move, cut, copy, paste, edit with any transformation tool, export, open as a new image, etc.

• Rectangle selection
• Free shape selection
• Adjacent color selection

These tools can edit the whole image, or edit a selected part of it.

• Crop
• Scale
• Rotate (rotate or flip)
• Filters:
  • Saturation (increase or decrease)
  • Transparency
  • Increase contrast
  • Blur (various types)
  • Pixelization
  • Invert colors
• Skew

The settings are managed by the Gio.Settings abstraction, which will probably corresponds to the dconf database once the app is installed as a native package.

With flatpak however, the settings are stored in a key-value file, which can be found (and edited) at ~/.var/app/com.github.maoschanz.drawing/config/glib-2.0/settings/keyfile.

Donations (paypal)

To contribute

the code is under GPL3, some tools icons are from here or from the Adwaita icon theme.