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Pinta is a tiny, fast & easy to use raster image editor, building upon the classic open source releases of the Windows' exclusive Paint.NET, enhanced with GTK4 and Libadwaita for a native Linux experience that runs on beautifully on MacOS and Windows too.
Pinta is freely licensed (MIT), which means it's free of charge to use for personal and commercial purposes. Use it as much as you'd like, including sharing it with others (👀), changing it to suit your needs at the programs own source code level 🖥️, or try creating and sharing plugins with the community 🥳🥂!
Pinta strives to be more than Microsoft Paint, but less than GNU's Image Manipulation Program, with a focus on making the simple things easier, because sometimes all you needed was a little layers and transparency.
# Recent changes
## July 2025
Bug Fixes!
A couple of the red/blue controls in the Levels editor now consistently map to the right colour channel, performance is improved when opening many files at once, and others.
## June 2025
Old School Menu Bars are back
Feeling more traditional? Restore a classic look to Pinta by enabling the "Menu Bar", available in the ☰ hamburger menu - View - Show / Hide - Menu Bar ✅
UI scaling improvements
The tool box icons of the left panel UI have been adjusted to use space better, increasing their visibility, and the header bar has fixes to avoid resizing itself and being fidgety when using certain tools.
Stability improvements
Less crashes, with more efficiency and overall stability work in the pipeline. Particularly, this fixes release fixes a crash that could frequently occur when changing brush width.
Translation improvements
The community has continued to support with translation work in this release, take a look here if you think you can help! https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/pinta
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