Pinta Online Open editor

Free & open source · nothing to install

The paint app I open
when a design has to be done now.

Not every design job deserves a 4 GB install and a splash screen. Most of them are a crop, a couple of shapes, a label, and an export. Pinta Online does exactly that work — in a browser tab, on any operating system, for free.

Open the editor See what it can do
The Pinta Online workspace with a surreal Cosmic Garden campaign on the canvas — a koi crossing a moon portal above an astronaut and luminous flower — beside a Layers dock listing Headline, Signal Line, Portal Halo and Cosmic Garden.
A real layered campaign, finished in the browser: paint.rip
23drawing & editing tools
16layer blend modes
55adjustments & effects
$0forever, no account

Fast to start

It's lightweight

But nowhere near barebones

There is no installer, no update prompt, and no first-run tour. You open a tab, press Ctrl/⌘+N, pick a canvas size, and you are drawing. Because the editor runs on HTML5 canvas rather than a desktop toolkit, an old laptop or a school Chromebook gets the same workspace a new workstation does.

  • Opens in seconds on modest hardware
  • Familiar Paint-style layout — no learning curve
  • Dark and light themes that remember your choice
The New Image dialog with width, height, orientation and background presets.
Pick a canvas size and start
The colour dialog with a colour wheel, hex field and primary and secondary swatches.
Primary and secondary colours, hex included

Four steps, one strange little world — every frame is the same document, one editable layer further on.

  1. An original surreal illustration of a koi, moon portal, astronaut and glowing flower opened in Pinta Online.
    Open artwork and make it layer one
  2. A warm ellipse outline added around the moon portal on its own layer.
    Trace the portal with a live ellipse
  3. A mint signal line added beneath the empty headline area on a separate layer.
    Add a signal line on its own layer
  4. The finished composition with the cream headline MAKE SOMETHING STRANGE set across the upper left.
    Set the headline directly on canvas

Real compositing

Full layer support

It handles multi-layer projects without complaining

This is the line most free web editors fail to cross. Pinta Online keeps a proper layer stack: add, duplicate, merge down, reorder, hide, rename, flip, rotate, and scale, with per-layer opacity and 16 blend modes. Drop a photo onto the canvas, put your artwork above it, and adjust either one without touching the other.

  • Drag and drop files straight onto the workspace
  • Per-layer opacity, visibility, and blend mode
  • OpenRaster export keeps the stack intact for later
Pinta Online showing a drag-and-drop overlay as an image file is dropped onto the workspace.
Drop an image in — no upload dialog
The layer menu listing Import from File, Flip Horizontal, Flip Vertical, Rotate / Zoom Layer, and Layer Properties with their keyboard shortcuts.
Layer commands, straight from desktop Pinta
The Layer Properties dialog with name, visibility checkbox, blend mode selector, and opacity slider.
Name, visibility, blend mode, opacity
The Rotate and Zoom Layer dialog with angle, scale, and pan controls.
Rotate, scale, and pan a single layer

The full toolbox

An impressive toolkit

Everything a quick design actually needs

Rectangle, ellipse, lasso, and magic-wand selections that union, subtract, intersect, and invert. Brush, pencil, eraser, bucket, clone stamp, recolor, and color picker. Lines and curves with draggable control points, five gradient shapes, and on-canvas multiline text. The magic wand in particular is accurate enough to knock a background out on the first try.

  • Five selection tools with modifier-aware combine modes
  • Editable shapes and curves, not baked-in pixels
  • Linear, radial, conical, reflected, and diamond gradients
A rectangular selection with resize handles around the astronaut and luminous flower.
Rectangle select
An elliptical selection following the circular moon portal.
Ellipse select
A magic-wand selection precisely isolating the added portal halo.
Magic wand, with adjustable tolerance
A thick coral line drawn diagonally through the koi composition with editable control points.
Lines and curves stay adjustable
A mint freeform polygon wrapping the astronaut and luminous flower.
Freeform shapes
A translucent coral radial glow drawn over the flower inside a rectangular selection, with gradient handles visible.
Gradients, here confined to a selection

Not just drawing

It's a real image editor too

You never have to leave the tab to fix a photo

Curves and Levels are the actual dialogs, per channel, with spline control points. Brightness/contrast, hue and saturation, posterize, sepia, and black and white sit next to them. Then there are 55 built-in and optional effects — blurs, sharpen, artistic treatments, distortions, noise, stylize, and procedural renders like clouds and fractals — all running off the UI thread so the canvas never locks up.

  • Curves, Levels, and hue/saturation, per channel
  • 46 built-in plus 9 optional worker-backed effects
  • Every application lands in a branch-aware undo history
The Adjustments menu listing Auto Level, Black and White, Brightness / Contrast, Curves, Hue / Saturation, Invert Colors, Levels, Posterize and Sepia.
The Adjustments menu, shortcuts included
The Cosmic Garden after a large hue shift: the indigo sky is burgundy and the koi and flower glow green.
Hue shifted across the whole picture
The Cosmic Garden after Oil Painting, simplified into broad pools of color.
Oil Painting, brush size and coarseness
The Cosmic Garden after Motion Blur, making the koi appear to streak through the portal.
Motion Blur, angle and distance
The Cosmic Garden reduced to intricate pencil-style outlines on white.
Pencil Sketch, from the Artistic group
The Effects menu grouped into Artistic, Blurs and Color categories, listing Ink Sketch, Oil Painting, Pencil Sketch, Fragment, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur, Unfocus, Zoom Blur and Dithering.
55 of them, in familiar categories

Runs everywhere

Cross-platform, minus the platform

With the formats you already use

There is no Windows build, no macOS build, and no Linux build — there is one editor, and every machine with a current browser gets it. Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, iPad: same tools, same shortcuts, same files. Nothing is locked in a proprietary format either; save a flat PNG or JPEG for sharing, or OpenRaster when you want the layers back tomorrow.

Open
  • OpenRaster
  • PNG
  • JPEG
  • WebP
  • AVIF
  • GIF
  • BMP
  • TIFF
  • SVG
  • ICO
  • PPM
  • TGA
Save
  • OpenRaster
  • PNG
  • JPEG
  • WebP
  • BMP
  • TIFF
  • PPM
  • TGA
The Save Image As dialog with a file name field and a format selector.
Pick a format on the way out
The same document open in Pinta Online’s light theme.
Light theme, if that is your preference
Pinta Online on a narrow 800-pixel-wide window with the docks reflowed.
The layout reflows on small screens

Before you ask

Is this online paint app really free?

Yes. Pinta Online is free and open source under the MIT X11 license. No account, no trial, no watermark, no subscription.

Do my images get uploaded to a server?

No. Files are decoded, edited, composited, and exported by your own browser. There is no upload step, and restored documents are kept locally in your browser's IndexedDB on that device.

Does it support layers?

Yes — add, duplicate, merge, reorder, hide, rename, rotate, and scale layers, with opacity and 16 blend modes. OpenRaster import and export preserve the whole stack.

Which operating systems does it run on?

Any system with a current browser: Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, iPad. There is no separate download per platform.

Can I use it offline?

Yes. Install it as a Progressive Web App and the interface starts offline from cache. Opening and saving local files needs no connection.

How is it related to desktop Pinta?

Pinta Online is a browser edition built on Pinta 3.2, reusing the original artwork, shortcuts, and interaction vocabulary. The original C# and GTK desktop app is still available from the upstream Pinta project.

The right tool at the right time

Keep it in a pinned tab.

It will not replace a professional suite, and it is not trying to. It is the thing you reach for when the design has to exist in the next ten minutes — and it is already open.

Start a canvas

Want the detailed tour? See every feature or read the user guide.