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.
Recommended
You can install it from flathub.org using the instructions on this page.
- 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.
| code | name | complete*? | main translators |
|---|---|---|---|
| ar | Arabic | 65% | @ContractISover |
| ca | Catalan | 93% | @jordimas |
| cs | Czech | 99% | @pervoj |
| da | Danish | 77% | @scootergrisen |
| de | German | 100% | @Etamuk |
| English | 100% | help welcome ** | |
| es | Castillan | 100% | @fitojb, @xoan, @oscfdezdz |
| eu | Basque | 82% | @alexgabi |
| fi | Finnish | 99% | @mahtiankka |
| fr | French | 100% | |
| he | Hebrew | 57% | @moriel5, @shaqash, @omeritzics |
| hi | Hindi | ~20% | @sujaldev |
| hr | Croatian | 97% | @milotype |
| hu | Hungarian | 48% | @kami911 |
| id | Indonesian | 59% | @ekickx |
| it | Italian | 99% | @amivaleo and @albanobattistella |
| ja | Japanese | 86% | @rlbxku1r |
| kr | Korean | 90% | @chaeya |
| nl | Dutch | 97% | @Vistaus |
| oc | Occitan | 33% | @Mejans |
| pl | Polish | 100% | @pkomur |
| pt_BR | Br. portuguese | 100% | @haurenburu and @ArthurBacci64 |
| ru | Russian | 99% | @tim77 and @Ser82-png |
| sv | Swedish | 99% | @eson57 |
| tr | Turkish | 100% | @TeknoMobil and @serkan-maker |
| zh_CN | Chinese, simpl. | 61% | @OverflowCat |
| zh_TW | Chinese, tradi. | 62% | @pan93412, @OverflowCat and @cges30901 |
*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.
the code is under GPL3, some tools icons are from here or from the Adwaita icon theme.