Easy Paint Pro

Paint should feel easy again.

The classic paint program, made for Mac. Every tool has its name on it.

Download free trial Get it on the Mac App Store

Free 7-day trial here or on the Mac App Store · Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later

Easy Paint Pro 3.5 in the Modern skin: tab groups, the labelled toolbar, Brush Options and a kite, brick house, apple tree and flower bed on the canvas.

Your toolbar, your way

A toolbar that fits your screen.

Scroll the tools, pull them down into more rows, hide the names or make every button bigger.

Close-up of the toolbar with the drawing tools in two rows, each button labelled.
Two rowsPull the handle down and the drawing tools spread out.
Close-up of the toolbar in Icons Only mode: the same buttons without names.
Icons OnlyHide the names for a cleaner toolbar with bigger icons.
Close-up of the toolbar at 150% size in the Night look, with three rows of large labelled buttons.
150% at nightBig, easy-to-read buttons in three rows.
Close-up of the toolbar at 150% size in the Day look.
150% by dayThe same toolbar in the Day look.

Readable at a glance

Every tool tells you its name.

No guessing what an icon does. Each button shows a picture and a word.

The Easy Paint Pro toolbar in Day, at 150% size. Top row: New, Open, Save, Share, Print, Undo, Redo, Paste, Clear Canvas, Resize, Select/Move, Crop, Rotate, Flip and Zoom. Bottom row: Pencil, Brush, Fill, Rectangle, Line, Curve, Select, Color Picker, Eraser, Text, Airbrush, 3D, Shapes, Ellipse, Polygon and Circle Select. Every button has its name under it.
The end of the toolbar in Day: Stamp, More, the colour palette, Utilities and the Day/Night switch.
The Easy Paint Pro toolbar in Night, at 150% size. Top row: New, Open, Save, Share, Print, Undo, Redo, Paste, Clear Canvas, Resize, Select/Move, Crop, Rotate, Flip and Zoom. Bottom row: Pencil, Brush, Fill, Rectangle, Line, Curve, Select, Color Picker, Eraser, Text, Airbrush, 3D, Shapes, Ellipse, Polygon and Circle Select. Every button has its name under it.
The end of the toolbar in Night: Stamp, More, the colour palette, Utilities and the Day/Night switch.

The real toolbar at 150% size, with a name under every button. Round Rect, Measure, Zoom Area, Magic Wand and Lasso are under More.

Close-up of the Classic Retro skin: a blue title bar, small toolbar, document tabs and the two-column tool palette on the left beside a canvas with a kite.

The Classic look

Remember the paint program you grew up with?

Turn on the Classic Retro skin. Tool palette on the left, colors along the bottom, a blue title bar on top.

  • Sky Blue
  • Veggie Green
  • Pebble Gray
  • Night
  • Modern Day
  • Modern Night
Brush Options panel in the Classic skin: brush size and opacity sliders, 22 classic brush tips and the start of the professional brushes.

Brushes

22 classic tips plus a professional library.

Professional brushes up close: Calligraphy Nib, Marker, Flat and Round Bristle, Oil Impasto, Palette Knife, Wet Wash, Soft Airbrush, Splatter and Stipple.

Pro brushes

Watercolor, oil, ink, airbrush and effects.

The Document Patterns picker with labeled tiles: Solid, Paper, Fine Checker, Light Checker, Fine Dots, Sparse Dots, stripes, diagonals, Grid, Crosshatch, Brick and Basket.

Patterns

Fill shapes with your own two colors.

The stamp gallery up close: Ink, Pixels and Soft stamps such as Approved, Rejected, Paid, Draft, Final and Urgent, plus picture stamps like Blue Hour Postage, Mixtape, Weekend Camera and Moonbound.

Stamps

Ink, Pixels and Soft styles, plus picture stamps.

3D Options up close: the 3D look choices Solid, Pencil and Ink sketch, a Cast shadow switch, and the gallery of 3D solids and numbers.

3D shapes

3D letters, numbers and solids with soft shadows.

Text Options: font family, size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, alignment, text fit, direction, rotation and colors.

Text

Type right on the picture and style it.

Tab groups

Group your tabs, like in Chrome.

The tab bar with two tab groups: a green References chip holding 2 tabs, and a blue Launch poster chip with its tabs Colour pass and Final underlined in blue.
Name it, colour itA group's tabs sit together under a coloured line.
Both tab groups folded away: the References chip shows 2 and the Launch poster chip shows 3, leaving room for the other tabs.
Fold it awayClick a chip and its tabs tuck in. The chip shows how many it holds.
Right-click menu on a tab group: Edit Group, Color with Blue, Teal, Purple, Orange, Pink, Green, Red and Grey, New Tab in Group, Collapse Group, Move Group Left, Move Group Right, Ungroup and Close Group.
Everything on one menuRename, recolour, move, ungroup or close the whole group.

Make something

A real paint box.

50+ brushes

Pencil, round, textured, calligraphy, airbrush and highlighter, side by side.

Brush Studio canvas in the Classic Retro skin with pencil, round brush, textured, calligraphy, airbrush and highlighter strokes, and the Brush Options panel.

Canvas recording

Hit Record. Watch it come together.

  • Records only the picture. No screen or audio.
  • Countdown, skip idle time, choose replay speed.
  • Saves the replay with your picture.
The Canvas recording popover under the Record button, with countdown, show cursor, skip idle time, replay speed and loop options.
Step-by-step demo: drawing a filled rectangle, a circle and an outlined rectangle.
Step-by-step demo: making shapes. Four captured stages from the app.
Step-by-step demo: drawing three straight lines.
Step-by-step demo: drawing lines. Four captured stages from the app.

Room to grow

Easy on day one. Still useful on day one hundred.

The Layers and Masks panel with two layers, visibility toggles, opacity slider and Add Mask button.

Layers and masks

Hide, lock, reorder and mask layers.

The tab switcher with a search field showing three open images.

Tabs and tab groups

Search your open pictures, and group tabs like in Chrome: name, color, fold away.

Zoom from 10% to 3,200%

Down to single pixels, with rulers, grid and guides.

See it made

One sunny afternoon, a handful of tools.

A pink kite with yellow bows, an apple tree, a brick house, pink blossoms in a flower bed, a red ball on a hill, clouds, birds, a star and the sun, drawn in Easy Paint Pro.
Drawn entirely with Easy Paint Pro's own tools. More in the gallery.
  1. Blue sky with a radial-gradient sun and two pencil birds.

    Sky, sun and birds

    • Radial gradient
    • Ellipse
    • Pencil
  2. A pink kite drawn with the Polygon tool and a diamond gradient, with a bow-tied tail.

    The kite

    • Polygon
    • Diamond gradient
    • Rotate
    • Line
  3. An apple tree: a green ellipse filled with a two-colour dot pattern on a brown trunk.

    The apple tree

    • Ellipse
    • Dot pattern in two colors
  4. A house with a brick-pattern wall and a polygon roof.

    The brick house

    • Brick pattern
    • Polygon roof
  5. A flower bed filled with the 🌸 emoji fill.

    The flower bed

    • Emoji fill 🌸

Privacy tools

Share the picture, not the private details.

Blur, pixelate or black out names and numbers in a screenshot, then export a clean copy. No account, no upload.

Editable workspaces and recordings can keep the history of what you covered. Share the flattened export.

Step by step: blur or pixelate a screenshot →

PDF pages

Mark up a PDF page like a picture.

Each PDF page opens as its own paint tab. Draw, stamp or add text, then save a new PDF.

Pages are imported as images, so the original PDF text and form fields aren't editable. For filling forms and reordering original pages, Preview is the better tool.

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Built for making pictures, not just viewing them.

What you want to doEasy Paint ProApple Preview
Paint with real brushes✓Classic tips and professional brush families◐Sketch and Draw markup
Airbrush✓Dedicated spray tool and presets—
Pattern fills with adjustable scale✓1× to 8× with live preview—
Gradient and emoji fills✓Five gradient types, any emoji—
Text and shapes✓Text boxes, shapes, lines, curves, polygons✓Text boxes, shapes and line styles
Stamps✓Approved, Paid, dates, custom wording◐Saved signatures, a different job
Layers and masks✓Names, visibility, locks, opacity, masks—
Selections✓Rectangle, circle, lasso, magic wand✓Rectangle, ellipse, lasso, Smart Lasso
Crop, resize, rotate, adjust color✓Included✓Included
Classic and modern looks, custom toolbar✓Six looks, 1 to 3 toolbar rows, Icons Only—
Record and replay your drawing✓Canvas recording with replay—
Fill forms, sign and reorder original PDF pages◐Pages open as images to paint on✓Better choice for this
Price7 days free, then a one-time purchaseIncluded with macOS
✓Included◐Partly, or in a different way—Not listed in Apple’s Preview documentation

Preview features are taken from Apple’s Preview User Guide for macOS Tahoe 26, checked October 13, 2026. Easy Paint Pro is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple.

Launch pricing

Try it free. Then it’s yours.

$29.99 once is an introductory launch price, and it won’t last. The price will go up soon, so this is the time to buy.

Step 1

Free trial

$0 for 7 days

Every brush, fill, skin and tool. View-only afterwards until you buy.

Step 2 Introductory price · limited time

Buy once

$29.99 one time

Buy at the launch price and keep it. The price will go up soon, and every Easy Paint Pro 3 update stays free for you.

  • No subscription
  • Free updates to version 3
  • License key instantly, on screen and by email
  • 1 Mac per license, movable
  • 14-day money-back guarantee
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Schools & business

Classroom and team licenses

For schools, educators and companies putting Easy Paint Pro on many Macs.

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What other Mac art apps charge

Many are subscriptions you pay for every month, and paint apps you buy once can cost $80 or more.

  • Easy Paint Pro$29.99 oncelaunch price
  • Other art app 1$80 once
  • Other art app 2$19.99 a monthor $199.99 a year
  • Other art app 3from $22.99 a monthsubscription only
  • Other art app 4$12.99 a monthor $129 a year

Other apps are popular Mac painting and photo-editing apps, at their US list prices from their developers and the Mac App Store, checked October 20, 2026. Their prices may change.

Introductory launch price in US dollars, for a limited time. Sales tax or VAT is added at checkout where it applies. Sold on this website and on the Mac App Store, where Apple’s price and terms apply. A purchase in one place doesn’t unlock a copy from the other. See terms and refunds.

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