Krita

Stichting Krita Foundation

About this app

Krita is a full-featured digital painting application designed for artists. Whether you create illustrations, comics, animations, concept art or storyboards – Krita will be a powerful tool for you.

Krita offers many common and innovative features to make painting more fun and more productive. There are great brush engines for sketching and painting, stabilizers for freehand inking, assistants for constructing complex scenes, a distraction-free canvas-only mode for painting without bother, clone layers, layer styles, filter and transform masks for non-destructive editing. Krita supports all the most used file formats, including PSD.

Krita supports animation with onion skinning, storyboarding, comic book project management, scripting in Python, many powerful filters, selection tools, colorizing tools, color managed workflows, flexible workspaces… And much, much more. Discover the full feature set of Krita at https://krita.org!

This is a beta release of Krita and is not suitable for real work yet. Since the interface is currently optimized for big screen devices (tablets and chromebooks) we are not making it available for phones yet.

Krita is created by the Krita Foundation and Halla Rempt Software. The Krita project is part of the KDE community.

Ratings and reviews

If you have a compatible device, a tablet with a pen preferably, this is just about the best deal for an art program out there. Fully featured raster and vector layers, scripts, and full stylus support. All this at the cost of free, because of the dedicated Open Source community. The app is still in development, but the only issue I've had was creating a new file from the splash screen, doesn't update the window.

There's good news and bad news regarding this drawing app. The good news is that it's uncompromised from the desktop version, so it's every bit as capable a drawing program. This technically puts it head and shoulders above every other mobile drawing app I've used. The bad news? ...It's uncompromised from the desktop version. In fact it's EXACTLY like the desktop version. Even with a pressure sensitive stylus, it's near unusable unless you have a keyboard, mouse, and larger screened tablet.

Deep garbage. It might be good on a computer, but the Android version is worse than bad, it is people playing a trick on you. It has all the outward appearance of something useful that you might just not understand how to use correctly, when in actual fact it is completely unusable because the dialog windows hang off the screen and the buttons to complete any action can't actually be clicked. It's not a settings issue either, because, get this, there are no settings on Android!

What’s new

Krita 5.2.13 is a bugfix release that resolves quite a few critical issues:

* fixed a crash when minimizing application on Android
* transform tool works with touch on Android