Layers and 27 blend modes
Opacity, lock, visibility and every blend mode from Multiply to Luminosity. Three layers free, no layer limit with Pro.
Layers 3
InkMultiply
WashNormal
PaperNormal
Drawing & Painting For Mac
A drawing and painting app made for Mac
57 brush styles that behave like the real thing — washes that dry with darker edges, oil with ridged impasto, pencils that shade when you tilt. Free to start, and nothing leaves your Mac.
Free download · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · No account
Watercolor
Size42
Opacity72%
Steady15%
−100%+
Brushes
A drawer of real tools
Twelve tool families, 57 brush styles, each with its own behavior. In the app you click a tool to pick it up — and click it again for its styles. Try it here.
Pencil P
Graphite that builds up where strokes cross, from HB to 6B, plus charcoal and colored pencil. Tilt the pen to shade with the side of the lead.
See all 57 brush styles- HB GraphiteFree
- 6B SoftPro
- Mechanical 0.5Pro
- Charcoal StickPro
- Colored PencilPro
- CarpenterPro
Pen & Ink N
Ballpoint, fine-liner, fountain pen, brush pen, calligraphy nib and technical pen — wet ink that dries as you go.
See all 57 brush styles- BallpointFree
- Fine-linerPro
- FountainPro
- Brush PenPro
- CalligraphyPro
- TechnicalPro
Marker H
Translucent markers that layer where they overlap, from a chisel tip that holds its angle to a highlighter and an alcohol blend.
See all 57 brush styles- ChiselFree
- Fine TipPro
- Dual TipPro
- HighlighterPro
- Alcohol BlendPro
Brush B
Watercolor and ink washes that build up where they overlap and settle with darker edges, then dry.
See all 57 brush styles- WatercolorPro
- Ink WashPro
- Round WashFree
- Dry BrushPro
- Streaky WashPro
- Splatter WashPro
Paint O
Opaque paint that covers what’s beneath: oil with ridged impasto, matte gouache, and acrylic.
See all 57 brush styles- OilPro
- GouachePro
- AcrylicFree
Dry Media C
Pastel and Conté with a gritty texture, and crayon with a waxy resist.
See all 57 brush styles- PastelFree
- CrayonPro
- ContéPro
Chalk K
Soft, hard and dusty chalk — a powdery mark that catches on the paper’s grain.
See all 57 brush styles- Soft ChalkFree
- Hard ChalkPro
- Dusty ChalkPro
Airbrush A
A soft spray that keeps building while you hold still, from fine detail to a wide mist cone.
See all 57 brush styles- AirbrushFree
- StipplePro
- Fine DetailPro
- Soft HaloPro
- Mist ConePro
- Spatter FlickPro
Spray Can S
Ten spray cans, from Fat Cap to Rust. Hold still and the paint pools — and the Hi-Fi can drips.
See all 57 brush styles- Classic CanFree
- Wide FanPro
- SplatterPro
- MattePro
- Fat CapPro
- Skinny CapPro
- StencilPro
- Dust & GrimePro
- RustPro
- Hi-FiPro
Pixel X
Snaps every mark to a 4–64 px grid, with pixel-perfect lines for crisp pixel art.
See all 57 brush styles- Pixel BrushFree
- Pixel ShadingPro
- DitherPro
Eraser E
Hard, Soft and Color-aware, which removes only the color you touch first. All three are free.
See all 57 brush styles- HardFree
- SoftFree
- Color-awareFree
Blend R
Smudge, Blur and Liquid Smear. Wet paint smudges further than dry paint.
See all 57 brush styles- SmudgeFree
- BlurPro
- Liquid SmearPro
- Graphite that builds upPencils darken where strokes cross, and shade with the side of the lead when you tilt your pen.
- Washes that settleWatercolor gathers at darker edges and dries over time, on cold-press watercolor paper.
- Paint with bodyOil leaves ridged impasto, gouache dries matte and grainy, and wet paint smudges further than dry.
- Ten spray cansFrom Fat Cap to Rust. Hold still and the paint pools — and the Hi-Fi can drips.
Painting…0%Stop
Painted — every stroke is yours to edit
Paint It For Me
Hand it a photo. Watch it paint.
Paint It for Me paints your photo with real brush strokes from the app’s own engine — coarse strokes first, finer ones over the top, the way a painter works — on layers you can keep editing.
Pencil
Colored Pencil
Watercolor
Crayon
- Two styles: Expressive or Hyperrealistic.
- Four media: Pencil, Colored Pencil, Watercolor and Crayon.
- Stop whenever you like and keep what’s drawn. One undo removes the whole painting.
- Not generative AI: every mark is a brush stroke, made on your Mac. Your photo never leaves it.
- Your first painting is on us.
Photo To Sketch
Ink Outline, Pencil Sketch, Comic or Blueprint, with a before/after divider. The result lands on its own layer.
Remove Background
Lift the subject out of a photo on your Mac, then paint a new background on a layer below or export a transparent PNG.
Paper & Feel
Paper you can feel
Eight surfaces, generated live on the GPU: fine paper, cold-press watercolor paper, kraft, woven linen, slate, a glossy whiteboard, matte white — and transparent. Turn on paper texture and dry media catch on the grain.
Fine Paper
Watercolor Paper
Kraft
Linen Canvas
Slate
Whiteboard
Matte White
Transparent
- Pen pressureSize and flow follow your pressure on 46 of the 57 styles. A mouse or trackpad draws at full pressure.
- Tilt shadingLay the pen over and 13 styles — graphite, charcoal, pastel, chalk, Conté — shade with the side, wider and lighter.
- Steady linesThe Steady slider smooths your stroke as you draw. The Pixel Brush skips it on purpose.
- Turn the pageTwist two fingers to rotate the canvas like paper; it snaps square when you’re close.
- Wet, then dryFresh paint glistens, then dries to its true color. The sheen is for your eyes only — it never reaches an export.
- The sound of the toolTurn on brush sound and pencils scratch, brushes sweep and cans hiss.
Studio
Everything a painting needs
A simple surface that opens straight onto paper, with depth one click away.
Symmetry
Mirror left–right or up–down for free. Quad and radial symmetry in 4, 6, 8 or 12 sectors with Pro.
Draw here — every stroke is mirrored eight ways.
Pixel Brush
Snaps to a grid from 4 to 64 px, with pixel-perfect lines that drop doubled corners. Free.
Selections and transform
Rectangle, Lasso and Magic Wand selections, and ⌘T to move, scale and rotate what you picked.
Shapes, gradients and fill
Seven shapes, Linear and Radial gradients (Angular with Pro), and a Fill with tolerance.
One key per tool
P for Pencil, B for Brush, S for Spray Can, X for Pixel — and [ ] to change size.
Color
Color, and somewhere to mix it
Start with five colors. With Pro, the Chroma Orb gives you a hue ring, a saturation and brightness field, opacity and hex — and beside it sits a Mixing Well where you lay paint down and smear it together with the real Smudge brush.
Chroma OrbPro
Opacity100%
#9E38F0
Recent
Mixing Well Pro
Drag to lay paint down, ⌥-drag to mix it, click to pick the colour.
Every tool remembers its own color, so switching from pen to marker never loses your blue.
Files
Your work leaves with you
Nothing is trapped in here. Every export is free.
- .pmyPaint My document
Your painting, layers and all.
- .psdLayered PSD
Every layer kept separate, with its name, opacity, visibility, blend mode and position — and layered PSDs open straight back in.
- .pngPNG
The finished picture, with real transparency where you didn’t paint.
- .jpgJPEG
Flattened onto your paper color — the small, shareable one.
- Export Selected Layers⇧⌘E saves the layers you pick, cropped to the artwork’s own edges.
- Import from iPhone or iPadPhotograph or scan a paper sketch with Continuity Camera and it lands on a new layer. Scan a drawing with iPhone
- Thumbnails in FinderYour .pmy documents show their real picture in Finder.
Replay · ⇧⌘R
Watch it come back together
Replay Session plays your painting back stroke by stroke, right in the app — nothing to record, nothing to set up.
Privacy
Everything stays on your Mac
Paint My has no account, no analytics and no servers of its own. Your paintings and photos are yours.
- No accountOpen it and paint. There is nothing to sign up for.
- Data Not CollectedNo analytics, no tracking, no third-party code.
- Nothing uploadedPaint It for Me, Photo to Sketch and Remove Background run on your Mac. Photos never leave it.
- Works offlineThe app reaches the internet only through the App Store, for purchases.
- Not generative AIPaint It for Me paints with the same brushes you do, stroke by stroke.
- SandboxedIt opens only the files you choose.
Free & Pro
Free to start. Pro when you want it.
The free version keeps working — no account, no tricks. Pro opens the whole studio.
Free
- 14 brush styles: one of every tool, plus all three erasers
- A five-color palette
- 3 layers per painting and 50 undo steps
- One canvas open at a time
- Every export: PNG, JPEG, selected layers and layered PSD
- One free use of each power tool: Paint It for Me, Remove Background, Photo to Sketch styles, quad and radial symmetry, angular gradients
Paint My Pro Pro
- All 57 brush styles, and your own from Brush Studio
- The Chroma Orb and the Mixing Well
- No layer limit and no undo step limit
- As many canvases as you like
- Paint It for Me, Remove Background and every power tool, as often as you like
Prices are shown in the App Store for your country. Purchases and subscriptions are handled by Apple.
Guides
Learn by painting
Step-by-step guides for everything Paint My does — from turning a photo into a painting to opening a PSD.
Photo Tools
Turn a photo into a painting, stroke by stroke
Paint It for Me paints your photo with real brush strokes in pencil, colored pencil, watercolor or crayon, on your Mac.
Turn a photo into a sketch or line art on Mac
Turn a photo into ink line art, a pencil sketch, a comic or a blueprint on your Mac, then draw over it on its own layer.
Remove the background from a photo on Mac
Lift the subject out of a photo on your Mac in one click, then paint a new background or export a transparent PNG.
From paper sketch to Mac painting, with your iPhone
Photograph or scan a paper sketch with your iPhone or iPad, and it lands on a new layer on your Mac, ready to ink and color.
Media
Watercolor on your Mac, wet edges and all
Paint watercolor on your Mac: translucent washes that build up, settle with darker edges and dry, on “Watercolor Paper”.
Oil, gouache and acrylic painting on Mac
Paint opaque oil with ridged impasto on your Mac, plus gouache and acrylic. Smudge wet paint and mix colors in the Mixing Well.
A sketching app for Mac with real pencil grain
Sketch with HB and 6B pencils, charcoal, colored pencil and ink on 8 surfaces, with pressure and tilt shading.
Calligraphy and hand lettering on Mac
Draw letters with a 45° flat calligraphy nib, a brush pen, a fountain pen and a chisel marker. The pens respond to pressure.
Pixel art on Mac, crisp to the last pixel
Draw pixel art on your Mac: the Pixel Brush snaps to a 4–64 px grid, keeps lines pixel-perfect and is in the free version.
Studio
Layers and blend modes, made for painting on Mac
Paint on layers with 27 blend modes, opacity, lock and visibility. 3 layers free, no layer limit with Pro.
Symmetry drawing and mandalas on Mac
Mirror or rotate each brush stroke on your Mac: left-right and up-down are free; quad and radial ×4, ×6, ×8 or ×12 come with Pro.
Open, paint and export PSD files on Mac
Open layered PSD files on your Mac, paint on them, then export a layered PSD, a PNG or a JPEG. Every export is free.
Made for your drawing tablet on Mac
Pressure changes size or flow on 46 brush styles, tilt shades on 13, and “Steady” smooths your lines.
Getting Started
Looking for Paint on a Mac? Meet Paint My
Macs don’t come with a Paint app. Paint My adds one: brushes, shapes, fill, gradients, selections, layers and free exports.
Start digital painting on your Mac
Paint on your Mac with a mouse, trackpad or pen tablet: 57 brush styles, 8 surfaces, layers and stroke smoothing.
A drawing app for kids on Mac, with nothing to sign up for
A drawing app kids can use on a Mac: pencils, chalk, markers, paint and spray, easy undo, no account, no data collected.
Questions
Is Paint My free?
Yes, it’s a free download with 14 brush styles, layers and every export. Paint My Pro is optional: weekly, monthly or yearly, or pay once.
Does it work offline, and are my photos uploaded?
It works offline, and nothing is uploaded. Paint It for Me, Photo to Sketch and Remove Background all run on your Mac.
Do I need an account?
No. Open the app and paint.
Does it work with a drawing tablet?
Yes. Pen pressure changes size and flow on 46 brush styles, and tilting the pen shades with the side of the tool on 13. A mouse or trackpad works too.
Can it open PSD files?
Yes. Layered 8-bit RGB PSD files open with their layers, names, opacity and blend modes; other PSDs open as a single layer. You can export a layered PSD for free.
Is Paint It for Me generative AI?
No. It paints your photo with the app’s own brushes — real strokes on real layers — and it runs on your Mac.
Which Macs does it run on?
Any Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Is the app available in other languages?
The app’s interface is in English. This website is available in seven languages.
Start painting
Open it, pick a brush, and the paper is already there.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Mac only · App interface in English