Pinta
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Nov 8, 2025first mention
Sep 3, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Pinta gets pretty close though”
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“it would be much easier to build off of something like Pinta”
Caveats and dissent
“Pinta just had a lot of broken UX and it didn't behave the way I expected.”
“Pinta is an inferior Paint.NET . It's about the same level of complexity, but everything is just like... 60-85% as good.”
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Threads where it came up
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All comments 7
“Pinta just had a lot of broken UX and it didn't behave the way I expected.”
“Pinta is an inferior Paint.NET . It's about the same level of complexity, but everything is just like... 60-85% as good.”
“Pinta gets pretty close though”
“For minimal edits, Pinta does the job IMO”
“I'm accustomed to using the Magic Wand tool in Paint.net[1] and Pinta[2] to select pixels based on color.”
“it would be much easier to build off of something like Pinta”
“I use Pinta for simple tasks.”