# Krita Reviews **Vendor:** Krita Foundation **Category:** [Drawing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/drawing) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 64 ## About Krita Krita is a free and open-source digital painting and 2D animation software designed for artists of all levels, from beginners to professionals. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools tailored for illustrators, concept artists, comic creators, and animators, enabling the creation of high-quality artwork across various platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and ChromeOS. Key Features and Functionality: - Advanced Brush Engine: Krita provides a diverse range of brush engines, allowing for extensive customization to suit different artistic styles and techniques. - Layer Management: The software supports multiple layer types, including raster, vector, filter, and group layers, facilitating complex compositions and non-destructive editing. - Animation Tools: Krita includes a timeline with onion skinning, frame-by-frame animation capabilities, and audio support, making it suitable for creating detailed animations. - Vector Tools: Users can create and edit vector graphics, which is beneficial for tasks like designing comics and creating scalable illustrations. - Color Management: With support for various color models such as RGB and CMYK, Krita ensures accurate color representation, essential for professional print and digital work. - Customizable Interface: The user interface is highly adaptable, allowing artists to tailor the workspace to their preferences, enhancing productivity and comfort. Primary Value and User Solutions: Krita addresses the need for a robust, cost-effective digital art solution without compromising on features. Its open-source nature fosters a collaborative community, leading to continuous improvements and a wealth of resources for users. By offering tools comparable to those found in premium software, Krita empowers artists to bring their creative visions to life without financial barriers. ## Krita Reviews ### 1. Different option to paint tool sai and photoshop **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor B. | Diseñador gráfico, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Krita?** If you are looking for a digital painting tool, Krita can be the solution. It is an open source application developed by artists, krita is a great alternative to sai or photoshop, it allows you to correct or size pictures. **What do you dislike about Krita?** lack of basic options,Sometime it bit laggy when working on large canvas with many layers. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** if you're a digital artist, experiment with krita **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm digital artist. I'm using this software with Photoshop and paint tool sai to create illustration ### 2. Best free software for digital painting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denny K. | Illustrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Krita?** Lightweight, free, and offer the same feature as paid software. **What do you dislike about Krita?** Sometime it bit laggy when working on large canvas with many layers. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** If you're a digital painter, this software is worth to try. Really recommended! **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm digital artist. I'm using this software with Photoshop to create illustration ### 3. Krita's magic world **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tayna M. | Social Media, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** Krita has excellent features that matches photoshop and paint tool sai and goes much further. Is the perfect tool for digital painters and illustrators. **What do you dislike about Krita?** I think that there is nothing to dislike about this program. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** Krita is easy to use and has amazing tools once you discover them, So my advice is that when you start using it, go trough all the tools and test them to see what they do and how to access them. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a illustrator that works with digital painting and as a colorizer. Krita has enabld me to have a better control of my lines with the stabilizer and to easily fix my images with the color selector. ### 4. Best Open-source Artist tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miguel Angel C. | Lead Artist, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** What I like the most is that it isn't a general purpose software. It is an software for artist. Made it for artist. The default templates set is an example of that. it hast comic and textures templates and others artistic templates. The default brushes settings is enough for create stunning art, you don't need expend a lot of hours, sinking for custom brushes, but you can customize anyway. It has a color wheel! Photoshop, what are you waiting for? I don't undestand why this tool is not developed in all artist softwares. And at last, an integrated reference panel is a great plus. **What do you dislike about Krita?** Like others art software, Krita has a not user friendly layers tool and can't reach the unbeatable photoshop layers management. The interface can be improved. This is a general lag of open-source. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an open-source software, they listen the communitiy and apply his demand of every release of the product. In a low-budget project, Krita is a perfect suit. ### 5. Finally a Photoshop Replacer for Painting! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** reberson a. | Generalista 3d, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** All the likeness compared to photoshop, huge amount of features and very fast. Much Faster tha photoshop for painting. It´s also Free and a very good documentation for starters. Another Huge feature is the ability to use .PSD file format, so you can still maintain total flexibility with other people´s work. **What do you dislike about Krita?** So far I didn´t see any cons on using this software, People used to photoshop may need to learn all the different shortcuts, but I think it´s part of any new software that you propose yourself to learn. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** If you are a 2d or 3d artist on games industry, I higly recommend this softwarem you can even still use .PSD formats inside without flattening or losing any work. It´s just Great! **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I´m so used to photoshop for painting concept arts and textures for 3d games that I couldn´t get used to any other software for this sole purpose, With krita I can finally replace Photoshop not only because it´s a free software, but also because its simply better! Another great thing is speed, my equipment is very low spec and old, but this software is still very fast ### 6. Fully featured Digital Painting Software for free **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kev Z. | Creativo Gráfico, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** The brush engine is pretty amazing. You have absolute control over your brushes allowing you to create effects and strokes really easy and fast. The interface, although a bit dated in its looks, is pretty well structured with docks that you can move around to create your own workspace. This is something that is very reminiscent of Photoshop and it's a welcome feature since it facilitates the transition from one software to the other. Regarding painting features, it has all you could need: canvas rotation, perspective grids, rulers, several transformation options. Everything. **What do you dislike about Krita?** As stated before, the interface is a little dated. Some of the UI icons are plain ugly and this makes the workscape look "old". Also, some of the options and shortcuts are very different from other apps, making the learning curve a little more steep than necessary, but it not that big of an issue and eventually you'll get used to it. The interface can be customized to mitigate this specific issue and improve your workflow. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been using this software on my everyday work as a Digital Illustrator and I can recommend it to anyone, professional and amateur, who wants a complete, fully featured tool to work with. And, since it is open source software it's totally free. If you want, you can always donate some money to the development team to show some appreciation or you can support development by buying training DVD's filled with hours of content and bonus materials made by professional artists. ### 7. Krita, my new painting toolbox. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge H. | Freelance Animator, Media Production, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** I really like its brushes. I don´t have to spend hours setting them up. I just choose the one I need and start painting. I also like its customization. I can set the shortcuts up just as I want. When I used it for the first time I felt not so comfortable until I configured my shortcuts layout and started to paint as I did it with other softwares. I use both Windows and Linux computers and it is a big deal to be able to use it on both SOs. I´m new to Linux and I´m really surprised with all the great free software available. **What do you dislike about Krita?** There´s only one issue I need to mention about layers management. I didn´t find a way to select two or more layers and move them without making a group. That´s something I´ve always done with Photoshop and I got very used to that. I can live with that but it would be grat to have that functionality. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** Try it, customize it, experiment. I´m sure you´ll like it. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a freelance illustrator and animator. Software licenses are really expensive and finding an incredible tool like Krita is miracle. Maybe a company can afford big prices but when you are on your own, it´s a bit difficult. ### 8. Great open-source software for digital painting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stelladia V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** I started to use Krita for its accesibility (it's free and easy to download) and good performance. It's a very useful software for traditional looking digital painting. The blending works really well and it gives a lot of creative options. From my experience, it's a great alternative to Corel Painter, that it's usually slower. I find really useful the pressure and smoothing options for the brushes as it makes more comfortable to work with a graphic tablet resembling traditional techniques. Also even though I don't particularly use it the mirror mode is a great creative tool. **What do you dislike about Krita?** Since I've had it updated to the last version it often gets a little bit stuck when rotating the canvas, creating strange mosaic effects. It (obviously) starts to get slower with large files but anyway it has a better perfomanca than other digital painting softwares. Apart from that my problems are not usually the software's fault. For example, I could use more variety of brushes, but I think they can be installed somehow. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** If you enjoy digital painting: just give it a try! It's a very satisfying experience. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Krita for concept art and illustration when I am looking for a more traditional look. It easily resembles traditional painting and gives a unique touch. It's very instintive and great middle point between paint and a graphic tablet. ### 9. Designed with the artist in mind **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor C. | Author, Character Designer, Artist, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** Before Krita, I worked mostly with vector graphics for any art I needed done, mainly because I felt unsatisfied with the options I had: Photoshop didn't felt intuitive enough for me, it had what I needed, but using it felt awkward; GIMP is mainly suited for photographic manipulation, with digital illustrations and paintings being just "something else" it can do; and lastly, Corel Painter is heavy, but it was nice. And then I stumbled upon Krita, version 2.8 at the moment. I'm always looking for open source alternatives to use, and Krita felt easy to adapt to, with a nicely configurable interface and intuitive way of doing things, and I learned to use it quickly. The program, aside from being open-source (and free), is incredibly lightweight, has everything I need to draw and paint from scratch, has a lot of resources available from other artists, and the community around it (programmers, designers and users) is healthy and helpful to anyone (and anyone can contribute too). I've been using Krita since then and it's my "weapon of choice" for any illustration I need done. **What do you dislike about Krita?** There are a lot of things that are coming with versions 3.0 and 3.1 that aren't ready yet, but I want them badly. Some of these include brushes that doesn't lag when too big (big as in thousands of pixels wide), animation tools, new filters, new layer features, more compatibility with some plugins, specially the incredibly versatile G'MIC, and other features. But for my main work there's nothing lacking with the program, as far as I see. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** Give it a nice good try, and check the community for help, some tutorials and the like. Artists like David Revoy, Vasco Basque and Tyson Tan are among the users, and people are helpful to each other. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Krita for any kind of digital drawing or painting, and also for comic creation. It comes with great templates and tools for comic artists, enough that it's not needed to use other tool alongside it. I could finally move from vector graphics, and that made my work feel more natural, and things get done in less time because of that. It feels more comfortable than traditional drawing for a lot of things nowadays as well. ### 10. Best free art program I've ever used! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ellie S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** This program has saved my ass countless times with the autosave feature. I literally just finished drawing a realism peacock on it and excitedly unplugged my laptop so I could show it to my mom and right as I did it, my laptop CRASHED. I frantically turned it back on, searched through my folder to see if I could find any hint of an autosave file and couldn't see one. Opened Krita in defeat about to start again, opened the file I started for it, AND IT ASKED IF I WANTED TO OPEN THE AUTOSAVE FILE! HALLELUJAH! God stepped down from the heavens and handed me a small loan of a million dollars! All that was missing was my signature but that was an easy fix. If I could rate Krita 10 out of 5 stars, I absolutely would. **What do you dislike about Krita?** Sometimes finding the separate brush modes can be a little tricky, but it's a small price to pay. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** Like I said before, the autosave feature is great. Not to mention, there are several different brush and texture packs that you can download and set into your Krita program. I've downloaded the watercolor brush set and absolutely love it. It's very fun and easy to use. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** All I'm really doing is creating art and animations with this program. I can't really see what else it would be that useful for. ### 11. Best Digital Painting Software I Have Used. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** José Luis M. | Test Engineering Associate en Accenture, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** Krita is the most advanced and complete paiting open source software I have seen. It's tools quality and it's speed make you think Karita is a paid, strong developed software as Photoshop or CorelDraw is, but is free to use and open source. If you are a digital painter, you can drop the other software you use and stop paying for it. This is your new main tool. **What do you dislike about Krita?** As many open source projects, it's developing speed is not as good as other kind of software. Now Krita has lauched crowd funding campaigns and they have been a big success, so you can expect this issue to chance at any moment. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** If you have already used any other software for digital painting, you could have some problems getting used to Krita´s tools, but with little practice you will feel at home pretty fast. Practice is probably the most important thing in the learning process. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** Texture paiting for 3D models. Krita has many tools, brushes and dynamics to work with that makes the process much easier and natural. ### 12. Krita Review from a Newbie Perspective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikko Okviandho L. | Owner, Arts and Crafts, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** The variety of brush engines and the built in smoothing algorithm **What do you dislike about Krita?** Krita is such a beast that it may overwhelm a newcomer, especially a first time and aspiring digital artist like me. But if you ever use PaintTool SAI, the interface is not too different and you'll master it within minutes. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** Krita is still in active development. As a free and open source software, you also has a right to make improvements to Krita. Whether by submitting feature requests, doing the dirty laundry by submitting codes, support financially by pledging on Kick Starter, or even just making custom brushes and artworks using Krita. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I usually create some sketches in Krita before I export it to GIMP and then export it to Inkscape. Long workflow, indeed. But it worths the journey because Krita can make clean line art for vector arts. ### 13. amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elias S. | designer, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** All painting tools, as to work with textures in the brushes, distortion in the images directly on the screen, I love also feature wrap-around mode and Multibrush tool. There are many tools that enchants me, tools that help me a lot in my workflow. **What do you dislike about Krita?** Sometimes it is too slow in complex work. As an example I can cite when increased much brush size. Sometimes problems with Text tool. Sometimes I have problems with files in PSD format, both to save as opening a native Photoshop file. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** Krita has evolved a lot in the latest versions and I see a promising future. With the inclusion of resources for animation I was very excited. **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had a job that needed to have the texture of a painting on canvas, the brush strokes needed to have the fabric texture intervention. It was easy to solve this in Krita, exceeding my expectations. ### 14. Unusual piece of drawing software heading for the big time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian K. | Director, Media Production, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2016 **What do you like best about Krita?** It has a wide variety of brushes and tools that aren't locked into a predefined way of thinking about art tools. It develops rapidly and is constantly getting better. **What do you dislike about Krita?** The interface is not a slick as it could be, but having said that, it is improving. **Recommendations to others considering Krita:** Give it a go and keep it up to date! **What problems is Krita solving and how is that benefiting you?** A refreshing alternative to turn to when starting to draw something new. ## Krita Discussions - [Is there a way to automate actions?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-there-a-way-to-automate-actions) - 2 comments, 2 upvotes - [How can we create a custom font set using Krita?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-can-we-create-a-custom-font-set-using-krita) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [How can we create font set using Krita?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/13378-how-can-we-create-font-set-using-krita) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Is Krita a good art program?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-krita-a-good-art-program) - 1 comment - [View Krita pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/krita/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-25+16%3A43%3A54+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2351064c-b34e-46c7-91b9-d20ee3ef3bbe&secure%5Btoken%5D=2d12cfc737b9e3604b90d10f09817dfbd386c52d466cfcbd6ffbe9f1af2923fc&format=llm_user) ## Top Krita Alternatives - [GIMP](https://www.g2.com/products/gimp/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (1,437 reviews) - [Sketchbook](https://www.g2.com/products/sketchbook/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (173 reviews) - [ArtRage](https://www.g2.com/products/artrage/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (73 reviews)