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

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.

Honestly, having access to all of the amenities of the PC port is fantastic. We love Krita, but the mobile version needs to be loved by the development team. The worst part is that it is hard to navigate on phone UI and the shortcuts are locked to keyboard inputs, which incentivizes buying a bluetooth keyboard. I need to see if there is an easier way to clear up space for actual drawing on the app, otherwise this experience is rather fruitless. We just need space to work with!

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 5.2.11 is a bug fix release. After this release we will focus on releasing Krita 5.3.0, the next feature release, and Krita 6.0.0, the first release based on Qt6.