KolourPaint

Paint Program

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About

KolourPaint is a simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and for simple image editing tasks. Features: - Support for drawing various shapes - lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ovals and polygons - Curves, lines and text - Color picker - Selections - Rotation, monochrome and other advanced effects

Additional information

Project

Developer: KDE
License: BSD-2-Clause and LGPL-2.0+ and GFDL-1.2 (free software)What this license lets you do
Homepage: apps.kde.org/kolourpaint
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Latest release: October 8, 2026 (10 days ago)Actively maintained · 4+ releases in the last year
Release history: Last 4 releases
26.04.3July 2, 2026
26.04.2June 4, 2026
26.04.1May 7, 2026
26.04.0April 16, 2026
Languages: 67 languages

Install

Available via: Flatpak · Snap (2) · Arch Linux (2) · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Alpine Linux · Void Linux (2) · Slackware · Solus · Gentoo · Nixpkgs
All 16 packagings
Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store, Snap Store (Beta build), AUR (Git build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Void Linux (32bit build), Slackware, Solus, Gentoo (Candidate build)

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Sources: Sources disagree on the license
Catalog data as of: October 12, 2026

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How each source lists it (16)

Source	Name	Version	Built by	License	Description
Flathub (Flatpak)	KolourPaint	26.04.3	—	BSD-2-Clause and LGPL-2.0+ and GFDL-1.2	Paint Program
Snap Store	kolourpaint	26.04.3	—	GPL-2.0+	Paint Program
Snap Store (Beta build)	kolourpaint	26.04.3	—	GPL-2.0+	Paint Program
AUR (Git build)	kolourpaint-git	24.11.70_r2759.g02e26e32-1	—	GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later	Paint Program
Debian	kolourpaint	4:25.04.0-1	Distribution build	—	simple image editor and drawing application
Ubuntu	kolourpaint	4:25.12.3-0ubuntu1	Distribution build	—	simple image editor and drawing application
Fedora	kolourpaint	26.08.1	Distribution build	LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD	An easy-to-use paint program
Arch Linux	kolourpaint	26.08.2-1	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later	Paint Program
Nixpkgs	kolourpaint	26.08.2	Distribution build	BSD-2-Clause AND CC0-1.0 AND LGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-3.0-only AND LGPL-3.0-or-later	Easy-to-use paint program
openSUSE	kolourpaint	26.08.2	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later	Paint Program
Alpine Linux	kolourpaint	26.04.2-r0	Distribution build	BSD-2-Clause AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND GFDL-1.2-only	An easy-to-use paint program
Void Linux	kolourpaint	26.08.1_1	Distribution build	BSD-2-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only AND GFDL-1.2-only	Free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE
Void Linux (32bit build)	kolourpaint-32bit	26.08.1_1	Distribution build	BSD-2-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only AND GFDL-1.2-only	Free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE (32bit)
Slackware	kolourpaint	26.08.2-1	Distribution build	—	kolourpaint (easy to use paint program)
Solus	kolourpaint	25.08.2	Distribution build	BSD-2-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later	KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE
Gentoo (Candidate build)	kolourpaint	26.08.2	Distribution build	BSD-2-Clause AND LGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND (LGPL-2.1-only OR LGPL-3.0-only) AND GPL-2.0-only	Paint Program by KDE