GIMP

UserLAnd Technologies

About this app

This really is GIMP, the amazingly capable GNU Image Manipulation Program, running on your device. It is full featured and professionally supported.

Features of GIMP:
GIMP has too many feature to list here. Please checkout the GIMP site: https://www.gimp.org/about/introduction.html
The short version of this, is that it has everything you would want from a professional photo and image editing and authoring program.

How to use this GIMP Android app:

Use it just like normal. But here are some specifics to the Android interface.
* Tap with one figure to left click.
* Move mouse by sliding around one finger.
* Pinch to zoom.
* Press and hold and then slide one finger to pan (useful when zoomed in).
* Slide two fingers up and down to scroll.
* If you want to bring up a keyboard, tap on the screen to get a set of icons to appear and then click the keyboard icon.
* If you want to do the equivalent to a right click, tap with two fingers.
* If you want to change the desktop scaling, find the service android notification and click the settings. You have to stop and restart the app after changing this settings for it to take effect.
This is all easier to do on a tablet and with a stylus, but it can be done on a phone or using your finger as well.

To access files from the rest of Android, there are many useful links in your home directory (/home/userland) to places like your Documents, Pictures, etc. No need to import or export files.

If you don't want to, or cannot pay the cost of this app, you can run GIMP via the UserLAnd app.

Licensing:

This app is released under the GPLv3. The source code can be found here:
https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/gimp

The icon, Wilber, the GIMP mascot, comes from a vector image source (SVG) made available by Jakub Steiner, available as Creative Commons by-sa 3.0.

This app is not created by the main GIMP development team. Instead it is an adaptation that allows the Linux version to run on Android.

Ratings and reviews

I love Gimp. I've been using the desktop version for over 15 years. I appreciate that an app version is available, but this is so poorly executed. It's literally just an emulation of the desktop software. If you're running on a large tablet it might be okay, but it's completely useless on a phone due to scaling. I can't see the image preview when editing settings, and I can't sélect multiple layers. Overall a waste of time.

I love Gimp and have used the PC version for well over a decade. So I just dove into buying this app with zero hesitation. Should have read the reviews first as it was a waste of money. This is not at all optimized for mobile use, I can't get it to do anything at all on my phone no matter how hard I try. It's set up exactly like the PC version. Which would be fine, were it actually done in a way that's usable. Not user friendly at all. Regretting this purchase big time, and so disappointed.

I was excited to be able to use this app on my phone when I am not at my PC, but it is waaaaay to finicky, has a ton of issues with navigation, and it runs at like 3 fps while drawing a 1 pixel line, panning the screen just right cuts off some screen options which requires a restart to fix. I would like to use this app more often if they'd just take the time to make a phone app, and not a Desktop Engine ran in the background on a phone.

What’s new

26.05.29
Small script fix from last release

26.05.26
Update GIMP version and file system significantly
Fix bugs that made it difficult to impossible to update GIMP and the filesystem on your own
You have to uninstall/reinstall to get this benefit (sorry)