Krita

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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

I like this drawing app, but definitely needs to be optimized for phones. Constantly needing to switch between portrait and lanscape mode to access window buttons is exhausting. How big windows appears needs to definitely be adjusted. I'm using an S25 Ultra, and it feels nice to draw here, but the windows thing is a draw back. A small tutorial would be nice too, since closing menus is essential for the small screen, but finding where they might be again in the settings is a pain.

I tell you wHat. This port is the bees knees. However, I cant help but notice some effort has been put into the S-pen. I understand it's a little silly to ask considering this app isn't exactly inteeended for phones. HOWEVER, I see a good portion of people here seem to want to utilize this on their phones rather than tablets. Couple suggestions, 1st: Volume Key, hotkey input. 2nd: Possibly emulate a rightclick, using s-pen button. 3rd? Gesture for navigation would then make it PERFECT. ty

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.

What’s new

Krita 5.2.9 release

This is a bug fix release, containing all bugfixes of our bug hunt efforts back in November 2024. Major bug-fixes include fixes to clone-layers, fixes to opacity handling, in particular for file formats like Exr, a number of crash fixes and much more!

More details about the fixed bugs in the full release notes here:

https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/krita-5-2-9-released/