Paint Program

by KDE

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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
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
How each source lists it (16)
SourceNameVersionBuilt byLicenseDescription
Flathub (Flatpak)KolourPaint26.04.3—BSD-2-Clause and LGPL-2.0+ and GFDL-1.2Paint Program
Snap Storekolourpaint26.04.3—GPL-2.0+Paint Program
Snap Store (Beta build)kolourpaint26.04.3—GPL-2.0+Paint Program
AUR (Git build)kolourpaint-git24.11.70_r2759.g02e26e32-1—GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-laterPaint Program
Debiankolourpaint4:25.04.0-1Distribution build—simple image editor and drawing application
Ubuntukolourpaint4:25.12.3-0ubuntu1Distribution build—simple image editor and drawing application
Fedorakolourpaint26.08.1Distribution buildLicenseRef-Callaway-BSDAn easy-to-use paint program
Arch Linuxkolourpaint26.08.2-1Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-laterPaint Program
Nixpkgskolourpaint26.08.2Distribution buildBSD-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-laterEasy-to-use paint program
openSUSEkolourpaint26.08.2Distribution buildGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-laterPaint Program
Alpine Linuxkolourpaint26.04.2-r0Distribution buildBSD-2-Clause AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND GFDL-1.2-onlyAn easy-to-use paint program
Void Linuxkolourpaint26.08.1_1Distribution buildBSD-2-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only AND GFDL-1.2-onlyFree, easy-to-use paint program for KDE
Void Linux (32bit build)kolourpaint-32bit26.08.1_1Distribution buildBSD-2-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only AND GFDL-1.2-onlyFree, easy-to-use paint program for KDE (32bit)
Slackwarekolourpaint26.08.2-1Distribution build—kolourpaint (easy to use paint program)
Soluskolourpaint25.08.2Distribution buildBSD-2-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-laterKolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE
Gentoo (Candidate build)kolourpaint26.08.2Distribution buildBSD-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-onlyPaint Program by KDE
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