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PaintZ

by Zachary Yaro

v3.4 Updated Dec 26, 2022 17.67KiB
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★ 3.75
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Description

PaintZ is a simple paint program for creating and editing drawings and other images, similar to tools such as Microsoft Paint and KolourPaint. PaintZ is designed to to be fast and easy to use, with a touch- and mouse-friendly Material Design interface, full offline support, and no Flash Player required. If you have been looking for MS Paint on Chrome OS, PaintZ is your solution. You can try it out at https://PaintZ.app. Follow @PaintZApp on: https://facebook.com/PaintZApp https://instagram.com/PaintZApp https://twitter.com/PaintZApp Changelog and more information available at https://rizzoma.com/topic/66b71121d60b7b86eedcd0cfbb6c1f4c. PaintZ development is supported through donations on https://ko-fi.com/ZMYaro and https://patreon.com/ZMYaro. The source code is available at https://github.com/ZMYaro/PaintZ. PaintZ is an MS Paint alternative, not a Photoshop replacement; if you are looking for a Photoshop alternative for Chrome OS, I highly recommend Photopea: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fmophgdjdipcbfjiopifpngdjmemonko.
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Reviews (54 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2021-09-21
LaChauntis Washington

I hate it, its nothing like MC paints. I can't pratice my art or have multiple images. XP >:(

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-10
C. Duryee

this app is sooooo clunky and hard to use. i expected something a lot more user friendly.

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-28
Brian Carthans

So sticky, and why can't I hit add text, select the area in which I want this text to appear, start typing, then not be able to alter the area in which I want this text to appear. Are you hiding from Microsoft? Sheesh, do better.

★☆☆☆☆2019-07-28
Ben James

this app Sucked

★☆☆☆☆2019-01-26
A Ether

Pretty awful to use, not very user friendly

★☆☆☆☆2018-09-03
Matt Gayheart

couldnt download my pic and it kept frezzeing up and giveing me errors

★☆☆☆☆2018-07-26
FunGirl 2.0 OwU

Does not work good I'm trying to deletle it

★☆☆☆☆2018-04-12
Taija French

this is the worst, yes WORST drawing app i've ever been on its horrible i advise you to never get this app!:(

★☆☆☆☆2017-09-29
Panzerdeal

Terrible: again not a cut n paste type app, not a 10 th. of what Windows XP could do.

★☆☆☆☆2017-08-12
Asha

crashes

★☆☆☆☆2017-03-07
Nicolás Colla

It doesn't work without an internet connection.

★☆☆☆☆2017-03-06
Jesenia Soliz

last time it did not paint

★☆☆☆☆2017-02-11
dsfhjdkhg fdgkjdh

This sucks and it doesn't look ed realistic in any way. why is the pencil a dotted line!? any, i thought it SUCKED

★☆☆☆☆2017-01-27
Clemens Cerutti

Rubbish. Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2016-06-23
Some Loser who Comments a Lot

Like EpicMarioFan101 said, it's nothing like MS Paint, it doesn't have a text tool... It needs to be about... 97% more MS Paint-like.

★☆☆☆☆2016-05-21
Frog101

IT SUCKS. IT DOESN'T HAVE A TEXT TOOL, AND ITS NOTHING LIKE MS PAINT!

★☆☆☆☆2016-02-16
Dana Boyd

It was great until it wouldn't let me save anything. The save button didn't do anything.

★☆☆☆☆2016-01-19
Angel

so hard to work

★☆☆☆☆2015-12-12
Christopher Shrimpman

I couldn't even get it to work.

★☆☆☆☆2015-08-23
sugar rush everything

it didnet help me

★☆☆☆☆2015-06-26
Joshua Deusinger

Well, need a FREAKING ZOOM FEATURE, also, WHAT KIND OF A PAINTING "APP" DOESN'T HAVE A ZOOM FEATURE!? Whithout it its next to impossible to draw small things.

★★☆☆☆2023-06-01
Casper Sa

Waay too many glitches fam took me almost 20 minutes to make a circle with four names in it.

★★☆☆☆2020-08-06
Melinda Hammond

Very non intuitive - for some reason when I shared my images, only parts of them shared.

★★☆☆☆2020-01-13
Gina Robinson

Ouch. It was not so great. I see from previous reviews that you're going to ask for specifics. I really became too frustrated pretty quickly, so I'm not going to have in-depth knowledge, but what I can report is that when I wanted to change the font, it closed the text box, so I had to stat all over. There were more problems, and there were also things that I did like, but not enough to hand in there. Sorry.

★★☆☆☆2019-11-02
Michael Robinson

I was simply wanted to add text to an image and encountered multiple issues. Once the text is written out there is no way to go back and edit it (or this is a glitch/error). So I predetermined everything I wanted the text to show. I try to click out of the text box (basically finalize the text i had added/edit that I made) the text immediately disappeared. Lots of issues within 5 minutes of use. Doesn't feel user friendly at all. I'm getting the impression that there may be too much of a focus on the app's simplicity. As a new chromebook user this is making me really miss a simple windows tool like Paint. 2 stars though because the developer seems responsive and like the app is getting updated regularly. Hope this work in progress becomes something useful.

★★☆☆☆2018-08-05
Kacy S

won't even open. i just downloaded it and it won't load. i cant even see the application because it's been loading 10 minutes plus, still hasn't opened.

★★☆☆☆2018-02-25
Sam Veilleux

need copy/paste!

★★☆☆☆2017-08-15
Genesis Louise

It works in the sense that it does paint, however I had trouble with the eraser, it only added color. The lack of an option to have multiple layers is what really lost me.

★★☆☆☆2016-09-05
Aquafina :3

they need a curvy tool!!!!

★★☆☆☆2016-06-24
Ian Palmer

Works great but... no text box. Can't add text to the image. Really?

★★★☆☆2022-07-26
Nostiron

Honestly, the game was awesome. Like you could draw and do whatever you liked really. But there was some bugs such as: The colors staying the same even though you changed it, Pen/Pencil not working properly. I didn't download it since I am on computer and can just search it, but I would like to ask to fix this if it is another disturpance to others ^^

★★★☆☆2022-05-03
Abner Diaz

The PWA on the website is much better than the extension.

★★★☆☆2021-06-27
Clarence Kevin

Hi! I love the app but I cannot stretch my photo. I also cannot stretch the editable area. There seems to have no arrow cursors in the four corners of the image like MS Paint. Or am I just missing something?

★★★☆☆2020-11-27
Matthew Kedir

I like Paint Z a lot! And I'm serous this extension deserves to be used by a lot more people. I don't have ms paint and its generally perfect on my Chromebook so Paint Z and B are generally useful. As of my reasons why its at 3 stars is with the pencil tool. I wish so much that the pencil tool gets the ability to be bigger and thicker... Like in MS Paint. Its very annoying for me to make large maps and map changes when i have to double layer large areas with the pencil tool. Mistakes double layering the pencil tool are common and it takes a while for me to do tiny areas with it. (As of all the other tools they are amazing) To sum up what i just said its basically allow the option for the pencil tool to become thicker like in MS paint. Nothing More, Nothing Less (As the marker tool sometimes has old colors stick to it when you change its color; The Pencil tool doesn't do that which is one of the reasons why its perfect) Thank You, I hope you receive this and add this option to Paint Beta as soon as possible.

★★★☆☆2020-11-23
Kendall Pierce

LOVE

★★★☆☆2020-11-07
charlie777 test777

everytime I paste an image from clipboard, the image keeps appearing at the top left corner of the entire page,then when I try to move the image offscreen to the other side of the page, it gets stuck in the middle as I switch to the pan hand...so overall good not great

★★★☆☆2020-08-08
Jonas Ellis

Is it possible to use layers and fill in without actually manual filling it in? Thank you.

★★★☆☆2020-07-14
Alexx Sullivan

i wish i could have multiple layers otherwise it was good

★★★☆☆2020-06-27
Etienne Culler

Seems very rudimentary (which may work for some) but, I'd have to guess it equates to MS Paint for Window 95 (if I'd used it back then). Things like being able to paste an image from your clipboard should be a basic along with being able to do composites of multiple images.

★★★☆☆2020-04-03
Grant Katz

Pretty good for simple purposes, but PLEASE add brown for one of the colors.

★★★☆☆2020-02-16
Luke Smith

Pros: Many features work in the same way as MSpaint or better. Rotate/flip/copy selection behaves well, even better than the original since it removes a rotation glitch in the original MSpaint. Open/Save works properly, Cons: Some basic staples of MSpaint that I use all the time are still not accounted for. I am sorely missing the transparent selection mode, which is implemented in the original MSpaint. It's not the same as layers. Selections made cannot be resized (different from resizing the entire picture). Also, the second color drawing is very messy. When I right click to use the second color, the Chrome right-click menu appears. Then when I cancel the menu with a left click, it overwrites the color from the right click. Fixing these issues would mean a lot for MSpaint style usability.

★★★☆☆2019-10-14
Jessie

It was not bad, you can write, paint and draw. But very poor on colors... On this app you van paint with the colors blue, red but not brown or pink... (for example)

★★★☆☆2019-09-19
Tang Ai

Needs copy feature.

★★★☆☆2019-08-25
Aaron Thompson

Of the Chromebook MSPaint options I've tried, this was certainly a decent one. However I found features missing that wouldn't make it a suitable replacement for my use scenario. I use MSPaint to build storyboards funny enough, when planning out ideas for images and comics. So the below features are really essential. The ability to move recently drawn objects around, to get them positioned correctly. MSPaint automatically highlights a line or object you drew for re-positioning and I find this helps a lot in those small corrections. Transparent backgrounds when moving selected objects. So you are able to draw a component of an image and then move it into place using the selection tool, without a white background smothering everything beneath it. I also found drawn objects to be imperfect. Like you could draw a straight line and there would be a sort of jagged "noise" along its edge. If these were sorted out, it would be a definite contender as a MSPaint replacement.

★★★☆☆2019-07-05
John N

I've tried this tool and like the annotation features, but when I try to save the annotated image (either jpg or png), I get Download Failed - unknown network error. I know my internet connection is good when this happens.

★★★☆☆2019-03-11
Smartypance 333

Its quite good for a online program. Its like MS paint in a lot of ways, But i have a bit of a problem with the fill tool and the smooth edges setting. You make a shape with smooth edges setting on and then you fill it in with the bucket tool, only too see that it has fuzzy lines between the square and the fill. I would be most happy if there was a smooth fill setting but otherwise it works well for what it isl.

★★★☆☆2019-03-09
Jay Dacorey

It's nice but now I can barely do ANYTHING! Ever since you added that update where the width and scaling are more advance, the canvas is too big and things are laggier. The fill-in also needs some work. It doesn't fill in the whole thing, it leaves an extra outline. Please fix this. Other than that, good alternative to Microsoft's MS Paint.

★★★☆☆2019-01-20
CyberseDuelist35

This is a good alternative, but how do I change the size of pictures?

★★★☆☆2018-01-31
Sea Agate

It's definitely doing what it's meant to do, so it has that going for it. However, it'd be nice to have the little simple things, like being able to flip/mirror an image after it's been selected.

★★★☆☆2017-08-05
Todd Poulson

Good start. It would be very useful to have copy/paste and basic image rotation.

Details

Version 3.4
Updated Dec 26, 2022
Size 17.67KiB
First Seen Mar 24, 2026