Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program originally created for children ages 3 to 12, but enjoyed by all! It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

You're presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Along with paintbrush, shapes and text, Tux Paint includes a "stamp" feature to add pre-drawn or photographic imagery to pictures, and a set of "magic tools" that provide filter effects (like blur, tint and waves) and interesting drawing tools (like train tracks, bubbles and grass).

Tux Paint includes a collection of "starter" images, both coloring-book style and photo-realistic, and a large collections of stamps are available as a separate download. Additional content can be added by parents & teachers, or downloaded from 3rd parties.

Tux Paint is available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, & Haiku operating systems, among others.

Features

  • easy to use
  • educational
  • multilingual
  • multiplatform

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Operating Systems

Android, BSD, FreeBSD, Haiku, Linux, Mac, NetBSD, Solaris, Windows

Languages

Afrikaans, Akan, Albanian, Arabic, Aragonese, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque (Euskara), Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Central Khmer, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Inuktitut, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, North Ndebele, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Venda, Vietnamese, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu

Intended Audience

Education, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Android, Cocoa (MacOS X), SDL, Win32 (MS Windows), X Window System (X11)

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Raster Graphics Software, C Education Software, C Drawing Software

Registered

2002-11-12