Paint
Pick a colour, then move the pointer over the background to draw.

Go on, draw on it.

Free · Open source · macOS 14+

Paintby MakioA pixel-perfect MS Paint for macOS

macOS never got a Paint. Here it is: all sixteen tools, the 28-colour palette, and a bucket that respects a one-pixel outline. No smoothing, no account, no subscription.

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Version 1.0.2 · Universal · Signed and notarised · MIT licence

What Paint looks like

The Paint window on macOS: the sixteen-tool box on the left, a drawing of a house with a sun and grass on the canvas, and the 28-colour palette along the bottom.
The toolbox, the palette and the status bar — where you remember them.

All sixteen tools

The same 2 × 8 toolbox, in the same order, with the same keyboard shortcuts you never actually forgot.

  • Free-Form Select
  • Select
  • Eraser
  • Fill With Color
  • Pick Color
  • Magnifier
  • Pencil
  • Brush
  • Airbrush
  • Text
  • Line
  • Curve
  • Rectangle
  • Polygon
  • Ellipse
  • Rounded Rectangle

Pixel-perfect, literally

Every tool writes whole pixels into a raster buffer. Zoom to 3200% and you get hard edges and a pixel grid, not a blurry approximation of what you drew.

Shape previews are rasterised on every frame of the drag, so what you see while dragging is byte-for-byte what you get when you let go.

Paint zoomed to 800% showing the pixel grid and the hard staircase edge between a brown shape and a cyan background.

Features

No smoothing, ever
Nearest-neighbour all the way up to 3200%, with a pixel grid past 4×. The pixel you click is the pixel that changes.
Two colours, two buttons
Left click paints the foreground, right click the background — for every tool, shape fills included. Just like the original.
A bucket that holds
Four-connected flood fill with optional tolerance. Ellipses and rounded rectangles come out watertight, so it can't leak.
Real Mac citizen
PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP and GIF through the document architecture, so Open Recent, Revert, printing and autosave prompts all work.

Get Paint

A macOS 14+ universal build, signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so it opens with a double-click. Free forever, MIT licensed.

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Paint is free and always will be. If it saved you a trip to a Windows VM, buy me a coffee.