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CLUSTER PAINTING-DIGITAL-BRUSH · 19 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-01-21

Digital painting applications

This cluster comprises digital painting and drawing tools, ranging from full-featured painting software with brush engines and animation support to niche utilities like miniature paint inventory trackers and a Krita stroke-limit trainer. The dated history is sparse and irregular, with one entry in 2017, one in 2021, three entries spread across late 2024 to 2025, and one in early 2026. Traction is led by Flipbook, magic-canvas-playground, and krita-stroke-limit-trainer, all currently at zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2011: 1OCT 2014: 1DEC 2014: 1JAN 2017: 1FEB 2021: 1DEC 2024: 1JUL 2025: 1MAR 2026: 1AUG 2026: 6SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2011OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 2 indie · 2 commercial · 1 enterprise · 7 open source · 4 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 19 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01PawPaint1★6 dayslivePaint application that lets users draw with paw print brushes and basic colors.
  2. 02WinCreative1★9 days—hobbyDigital painting app for Windows that supports pen tablets, brushes, layers, and editing tools for artists.
  3. 03gouache-studio0★15 days—GPU-accelerated painting and texture app for creating hand-painted game art, running as a Windows desktop and browser application.
  4. 04canvas-ritual0★26 days—indieGuided painting app with project library, color assistance, progress tracking, and journaling for artists.
  5. 05Flipbook0★20 daysliveopen sourceHand-drawn animation program for the GNOME desktop that supports multiple brush styles and image import as frames.
  6. 06Procreate Pocket0★23 dayslivecommercialDigital painting app for iPhone that provides a complete art studio with brushes, layers, and animation tools for creating illustrations and sketches.
  7. 07magic-canvas-playground0★1 mo—Interactive canvas application for creating digital art and exploring visual effects in a playful environment.
  8. 08Krita0★2 moliveopen sourceDigital painting application for creating concept art, illustrations, and textures with advanced brush engines.
  9. 09ibis Paint X0★7 daysliveenterpriseDigital drawing app with extensive brush library, layers, filters, and process recording for artists.
  10. 10krita-stroke-limit-trainer0★2 mo—ai-builthobbyKrita plugin that imposes a stroke limit during drawing sessions to train line confidence and brush economy.
  11. 11Sketchbook®0★4 molivecommercialDrawing and painting app with customizable brushes, layers, and guides for creating digital sketches and finished artwork.
  12. 12Minis companion0★5 molivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid app that helps miniature painters track their paint recipes and photo progress for their miniatures.
  13. 13Vara0★1 yrstaleliveopen sourceDesktop application for digital painting with pressure-sensitive brushes, multiple layers, and high dynamic range color workflows for artists.
  14. 14Vara0★unknownlivehobbyMinimalist digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brush support aimed at simple sketching and painting rather than full-featured editing.
  15. 15Krita0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceDigital painting application offering brush engines and filters for sketching, painting, and creating concept art and comics.
  16. 16MyPaint0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourcePainting application for digital artists that offers a customizable brush engine and a clutter-free canvas for creating artwork.
  17. 17paintsupreme-3d0★unknownliveindieDigital painting application that applies color, materials, and bump textures with real-time lighting, plus layer-based timeline animation and export.
  18. 18Krita0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDigital painting and 2D animation program offering brush engines, non-destructive layers, vector artwork support, and color management for artists.
  19. 19xhabarabot-paintex-2-rullyshabara.replit.app0★unknownliveai-builtInteractive painting tool that combines audio and visuals for creative art generation.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.