To the Holy One, blessed be He, from whom all good things come. We dedicate this work in gratitude for the nourishment that sustains human life, the energy that powers our tools, and the opportunity to weave information into works of use and beauty.
Plan Paint
A free, native paint program for Mac, Windows and Linux, with the familiar Windows 7/10 Paint ribbon. Make a meme, sketch an idea, or finish a picture: crop, caption, draw polygons, adjust curves and paint with a brush. Plan Paint keeps everyday drawing tools close at hand, with a clear interface built for direct editing.
Plan Paint 1.1 on Apple Silicon Mac. This picture was drawn in the native application with filled polygons, a Bézier curve and watercolor strokes. Explore the illustrated guide and screenshots.
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Every successful main build automatically publishes all four tested packages and SHA256SUMS as a numbered release. Publication waits for every platform's tests and packaged startup checks. PR builds produce Actions artifacts without publishing.
The Mac application is ad-hoc signed; its installer is unsigned and has no Developer ID notarization. macOS may require approval in System Settings → Privacy & Security. “Windows 7/10” describes the Paint interface; Windows 7 operating-system compatibility has not been verified.
New in 1.1.4
Windows input stays responsive while repaint work is queued, translated text keeps its order relative to later keystrokes, and native repaints cover the complete exposed pixel bounds. This release updates the pinned GUI.Forms toolkit and retains the classic ribbon and editing tools.
See the 1.1.4 release notes.
New in 1.1.3
Choose Crisp, Smooth or 4× Smooth for lines, polygons and paths. Edit nodes and directly select curve handles with clearer hover feedback. The expanded Spirograph catalog adds Deluxe-style wheels, free lifting, and apparatus resizing without ink.
See the 1.1.3 release notes for controls, wheel approximations and platform details.
New in 1.1.2
Selection-derived guides now protect their enclosed body when Fill is enabled. A tightening lasso around an outlined oval creates a solid stencil, which stays active and visibly hatched when switching to Brush. Turning Fill off keeps boundary-only behavior.
See the 1.1.2 release notes.
New in 1.1.1
- Windows correctly displays ribbon captions made entirely from fallback-font characters, including Russian tabs. Its font fallback uses the bundled Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and Indic faces.
- The language selector shows all choices when space permits and a visible scrollbar in smaller windows. Help! English! beside Help offers a way back to English after restarting.
- Bundled fonts use shared file mappings on macOS and Linux, reducing retained heap copies. Packages strip unneeded binary symbols; the Mac installer uses improved compression. All fonts and language packs remain included.
- Longer translated ribbon captions fit their button widths.
See the 1.1.1 release notes.
New in 1.1.0
Plan Paint adds operating-system language detection, a language selector in Settings, and 22 external language packs covering menus, tools and the in-app guide. English remains compiled into the application. Bundled fonts and improved text layout support Arabic, Hebrew, Indic scripts and CJK text. Language changes take effect after restarting.
Settings → Canvas controls provides drawing coordinates, movement steps, separate Start stroke and Finish stroke actions, and checkbox alternatives to held modifiers. Spirograph pegs and the custom pattern canvas gain additional keyboard and accessibility actions. GUI.Forms exposes control semantics on macOS, Windows and Linux; end-to-end assistive-device usability testing is still in progress.
See accessibility and platform validation, language packs, and the 1.1 release notes.
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