The Best FREE Digital Art Software That is Worth Using (Windows, Mac, Android & Linux)🎨

Discover the best free digital art apps you can download for PC, Mac, Linux and Android in 2023. I'll focus on the apps that are worth using and are 100% free without paid upgrades to unlock the full set of features.

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This is not a sponsored video. (These apps are all free). All opinions presented are my own.

00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Criteria
01:21 - Medibang Paint Pro
02:49 - MyPaint
04:21 - Krita
07:15 - Comparisons
08:15 - How Do I Rank Krita Compared to Paid Apps?
09:51 - Why I Didn’t Review More Apps
10:29 - Conclusion

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[Rakurri]

As a previous Photoshop user, I can wholeheartedly say that Krita did everything I could do with Photoshop and more! Like perspective tools, a more creative brush engine, hotkeyable brushes and much more! The more I used it the more I noticed that it basically had everything I liked in Photoshop, especially considering the many free plugins! And it crashes way less! I easily ditched the Adobe subscription and I haven't looked back ever since! 😍 Thank you for shedding light on Krita and showing it to more people ❤

[ArtbyGalen]

This is a great video, sir! Admittedly I'm a photoshop guy, but Krita is always the one that I recommend to people who ask about easy-entry art software. Thank you for the in depth video!

[paulj]

I agree that Krita is the best free drawing software, but I unfortunately needed to use Medibang, when I started drawing digitally. The reason was that Krita is very resource demanding. It was lagging constantly, both while painting and even creating new, empty document. So to make my painting process more comfortable than in Medibang, I needed to buy Clip Studio Paint.

Update: I switched to Linux, because Windows irritated me and Krita works much better. So I am now using Krita.

[hypernekoninja]

As somebody who been using medibang for years, I can say you can do a lot more than you think. I Like it since it more simple and I'm not overwhelmed all the time. Plus I found you can do realistic and can have a paintly-like style if you know how to use the brushes. So it's not just for comics and simple drawings. Just play around with the brushes and settings.

Sure the program can add a lot more. However, it's a nice smaller program that does have a lot of features if you try things out and not just brush it off. I Like your videos, however, I felt should say something after you just brushed off the program as you did. I did plenty of realistic drawings in the program with no issues in the past.

[onishogun]

Medibang isn't that bad though, it's been 3 yrs I started digital and surely can say Medibang is good enough for beginners and also they brought time lapse feature recently so can post some speedpaints now :P

[bazyt]

Yay, Krita! I agree, its only negative is the interface for beginners starting out. Tutorial vids were a big help to me too, and I soon got the hang of everything I needed.

[nekomi_ch]

6:39 I first tried kirita when I first starting to draw anime on my computer. It is too overwhelming for me so I turned into medibang paint pro. It is actually not that bad as this video suggest and it is so good that I have been using it for months. However you made me wanted to reconsider my options and maybe switch back to kirita again.

[matchahctam]

When I first started digital art 4 years ago I started with Medibang and Firealpaca which are great for beginners for their simplicity. The ones that you need to pay for are for mobile but if you're on the computer those are free. Well, except for the custom made brushes, but you can make your own brush. Last year I discovered Krita so now I use it with Medibang and Firealpaca since I mostly draw anime and manga and Krita for realistic practice or for cool brushes and effects(but my pc is such a potato the latest version 5.0.2 crashes on me 15 minutes in haha).

[s-o-o-z]

Thank you for all the research you put into this video.

[minicared]

I started with Krita last year and I'm completely in love. The aspect that fishes me was the animation tools and I started studying some weeks ago. I tried for many years to draw in Photoshop and hate it, but had some motor memory that I could change the commands in krita for similar work. I even tried clip/manga studio, but the fact that you can use it free but can't save your work is so fucked that I give up for now, until I am able to have money to pay for it and try one more time.

[Crocady]

Really want to get into digital illuystration and for the last decade I've been struggling in photoshop thinking maybe I'm not good enough after all. Thank you so much for this video! I cannot properly express the weight that has been lifted off of me after watching this golden nugget of a video. You're a Godsend, man. You really are.💜

[CrescentMond]

I have first used Krita back when it was in version two but I couldn't get into it, because of the complexity of the program... And because I was still very new to digital art programs. I've been using it again since last December and version 5 it's great! They made it that much easier to use, from someone coming from photoshop and currently owning (and loving too) both painter and clip studio paint. The only thing I could say against it is that it's still somewhat ram and cpu intensive, but even with my (admittedly old) setup and 16gb of ram I still encounter very few problems, aside from when I try to use something like liquify... Which is understandable really

[audraminor]

This was EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thanks!!!

[ztenff]

Wow, so well done! Thanks for posting, man! Very helpful.

[nnalehg]

It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.

[aj_cipher]

Thank you for the review!! It’s helped me out!

[sinsitysinderella]

Thanks for posting this. You did a great job of hitting all of the important points clearly and concisely. I remember the days when Photoshop cost as much as a semester of classes at community college. Like it was nuts. Purchasing an older version is great advice, and something I've done multiple times, especially when it's already a feature rich program, vs getting the latest edition, where you're paying full price for additional tools you'll never use.
It Is really important to help keep these free apps free, like even if it's just $5 or $10. I personally try to do a minimum of $25 for something I use a lot. I subscribed and I'll be checking out your other videos. Cheers.

[rascon]

This video really helped me. Thank you very much!

[marshmallowmountains]

When I first started drawing on the computer, I used GIMP (after MS Paint of course lol). I thought it was fine for a while, but then one of the updates made it extremely frustrating to use with a tablet. So I started trying to learn Krita at the recommendation of one of my friends. I really struggled with it because it made me angry I couldn't do things I knew how to do instantly in GIMP, but my art was better once I figured it out. There's so many little things that are much better than GIMP. If you don't want to move to Krita because it's hard, do it anyway. It's SO worth it.

[dalaibrahim]

this was an extremely helpful review, thank you!