Paintbrush – a Microsoft Paint clone for Mac OS X

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Time: December 14, 2007, 12:45 pm

[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt Many of us who converted from a Windows PC to a Mac may long for the amazing artistic capabilities allowed within Microsoft Paint. Ok so maybe that’s a bit dramatic, and we all know that Microsoft Paint is pretty crappy, but that’s also why it was fun. Thankfully, developers in the open source community saw this available niche and went to action, creating Paintbrush, a uniquely Mac OS X clone of a Microsoft Paint-type application. The features are exactly as basic as you’d expect. Check out t [...]

Comment from Calvin Gilbert
Time: December 16, 2007, 12:00 pm

I can’t tell, am I looking at a photo or a painting?

Comment from Charlie
Time: December 16, 2007, 12:23 pm

LOL @ Calvin

this is the best drawing program evaaaaaaaaaaaaar. if only microsoft would just port MS Paint because it is like better than photoshop

Comment from Cornelia
Time: January 1, 2008, 10:29 pm

How do you copy pics onto Paintbrush though??????

I want to make something with pics I found on the google image search, but it doesn’t work when I try to do it the way you do in Microsoft Paint. I will copy the image, but when I go to ‘Edit’ to paste it, the option is faded out. It won’t let me right click either. I can tell it will let me do it somehow, because there is an option of flipping an image. Am I not copying the image correctly because Firefox(which I am using now)has different features, which are more like Internet Explorer on Microsoft then Safari? Please tell me!!!!!

Comment from Horace
Time: January 23, 2008, 2:49 pm

FYI, MS Paint is a clone of MacPaint which debuted with the original macintosh in 1984. MacPaint, MacWrite, MacDraw, etc.

MacPaint was eventually dropped from the Mac OS bundle as a glut of capable and usually superior clones became available in the marketplace and as a way to promote third party software developers. Can you say Digital Darkroom aka Photoshop 1.0?

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Time: February 26, 2008, 3:10 pm

[...] Originally Posted by Variable Is this just for Leopard?? Because I can’t find it! (congrats on your new Macbook by the way) Do you have development tools installed? It usually doesn’t come installed with the original mac installation (it came with mines though). You could always download this as well. (I havn’t tried it but others i know say it works for basic paint stuff) Paintbrush – a Microsoft Paint clone for Mac OS X – OS X Daily & thanks for the congratz Quote: [...]

Comment from Colon
Time: March 30, 2008, 1:42 pm

I agree that MS paint is better than photoshop. I use MS paint for all my graphic needs, and I love it!

Comment from James Nevara
Time: June 11, 2008, 5:21 pm

Damn this is the coolest thing ever. Mac paint or Microsoft paint or whatever the hell you want to call it, crappy pixel art is the best.

I use this more than photoshop!

Comment from Anthony
Time: August 8, 2008, 12:28 pm

There is no eye-dropper

Comment from Dean
Time: January 29, 2009, 10:25 pm

Hey,I’ve seen paintbrush a lot of times but it doesn’t have what I want that is in the original MS Paint,that is the copy and paste from and resizing tools.Those tools were the ONLY reason I ever used MS Paint…
And to top it of MS paint is efficient and the panel is much more user-friendly than this clone.
I don’t really like this clone of MS paint at ALL.
Can anyone give me like,a link for an EXACT replica of MS paint for mac?Thanks.

Comment from angry t
Time: February 25, 2009, 11:29 pm

there is no fucking lasso tool people! C’MON!!

Comment from rodya
Time: March 4, 2009, 7:38 pm

Why are people hating on MS Paint? You can add text into an image instantly with no problems with that … or take 15 minutes booting and cajoling a $1000 piece of software (photoshop) or glitchy free knockoff (gimp) trying to do the same thing. Or add an arrow. Circle something.

Come on, if you’re not professionally doctoring photos MS Paint is more what you need with less hassle. And on topic, this clone is not quite there.

Comment from helle
Time: March 15, 2009, 12:34 pm

how do u copy a pic and paste it onto it can you?

Comment from Ted_Frost
Time: March 16, 2009, 10:07 pm

i would like to know the same thing. if anyone knows how to copy and paste pics to edit in paintbrush (or another similar free program) please share the knowledge. (teddmca@hotmail.com)

Comment from joel Wilson
Time: March 20, 2009, 7:28 pm

I was very disappointed when you highlight and image you cant stretch it buy selecting the corners. You can only move it around. so it makes it hard to make flyers or stretch an image to fill the screen or do photo shop things like stretch the skin so it covers up a pimples. You guys have left out the most creative part of windows paint please fix it.

Comment from CJ Bevuar
Time: April 20, 2009, 12:27 pm

Does it have the MS-PAINT easter egg where you can get that one extra zoom level?

Comment from lezko
Time: April 21, 2009, 8:03 am

have a designer of this page made the OSXDaily logo in this paintbrush? I think so because shadow of the “ypsilon” in the end of logo is little bit wierd, dont you think so?

Comment from Zaeriuraschi (pronounced zay-ree-ooh-ras-chee)
Time: June 9, 2009, 5:27 pm

My friend has a Mac, so when I found out about this, I told him immediately!

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Time: June 15, 2009, 10:01 am

[...] If there’s something that making art teaches us—it’s patience. With less money to go around these days, we have to be a bit more creative with how we spend. That might mean that you might not be able dish out for expensive digital-manipulation programs like Photoshop, but my art-hero for today, Stanley William Moore II, shows you that patience goes a long way with very little. He made this pic using only MS Paint! Yeah, you know that FREE program that comes with your PC? This is only a portion of the picture, check out the rest here. Scroll down to “Ultimate MS Paint”. Totally bananas, isn’t it? If you love Macs, here’s the Mac equivalent. [...]

Comment from Josephine
Time: June 25, 2009, 11:44 pm

This is a pretty good attempt at a replica. but its not the same. First of all, deselect for some reason does not exist on this program (especially when the dotted-lines take up the whole canvas). there are no resizing tools. you can only carve out box-shapes, not the hand-drawn carve-outs like MS paint. then there’s all the missing drawing tools, such as the different shapes for the brush, and the diagonal-shaped paint brushes. and of course, the canvas cannot be resized manually.
good things though is the Opacity tool for the color and the adjusting the image SIZE from the clipboard.

if someone could help me out with deselect though that would be great

Comment from andy
Time: July 3, 2009, 5:27 pm

is it free?

Comment from Diana
Time: July 10, 2009, 2:56 pm

You CAN put an image on Paintbrush! All you have to do is click ONCE on the image, go up to File and click Open With > and select Paintbrush! Easy as pie!

Comment from Max
Time: July 18, 2009, 9:44 am

for veteran users of MSPaint, do not use this program. you will be more than disappointed. the lack of a free-hand cutting and grabbing option is my biggest qualm, but mspaint is just far superior. don’t waste your time with paintbrush. for those who haven’t spent the countless hours fucking with mspaint, you may enjoy paintbrush because it is very similar, in some respects.

Comment from John
Time: July 22, 2009, 7:50 pm

I just downloaded this, and when i click on it in my applications it just bounces on my tool bar and disappears. Why wont it open?

Comment from meg
Time: August 5, 2009, 7:26 am

i want to select a certain section of an image and then copy and paste that into a different image but paintbrush doesn’t let me! is there any other ‘paint’ type programme for mac’s that does let you do this?

Comment from Stella
Time: August 7, 2009, 11:36 am

This app is super basic. Like, wayyyyy too basic. Unless you want only the most rudimentary photo editing, without much care for accuracy of placement or even being able to cut and paste, look elsewhere.

Comment from rick
Time: August 11, 2009, 5:07 pm

cool

Comment from lolo
Time: September 16, 2009, 12:36 pm

Oh, FOR GODS SAKE PEOPLE, SHUT UP!

This may not have as many features as MS Paint, but just don’t diss it.

By the way, I got the latest version of photoshop at a CAR BOOT SALE! The guy selling it said it was crap and he hated it.

Why?

So, know I got photoshop for a fiver.

Comment from Heater
Time: October 19, 2009, 9:24 pm

This is the BEST MS Paint or Microsoft Paint clone for Mac I have seen it is AWESOME thank you for download!

Comment from Sally
Time: November 17, 2009, 1:38 am

there is no “imaginary” background thing when you select suff.
that was the only reason why i ever used ms paint. you can over lap everything!
stupid paintbrush doesn’t have it.

Comment from Sally
Time: November 17, 2009, 1:41 am

oh and you cant put text to picture without that cropping invisible thing.
i miss my windows.

Comment from Kalle
Time: January 10, 2010, 6:23 am

Anyone still seen the real thing converted for mac?
Thanks man in the sky that is still have the real MS Pain(t) at work..

Comment from Mac Abuser
Time: January 30, 2010, 4:35 pm

Paintbrush is not even close to as awesome as MSPaint is. Sorry. To be honest, comparing the two programs is an embarrassment to Apple.

Comment from sam
Time: March 11, 2010, 5:53 pm

I have os 10.5.8 but i dont have this. Wtf?