Paint Online — Free MS Paint Alternative
A free online Paint program in your browser: pencil, 9 brushes, 23 shapes, text, fill, selections, crop, resize, layers and undo. No download, no signup, no uploads.
🔒 Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploadedA familiar Paint editor that runs in your browser
Paint Online brings the classic Windows Paint workflow to any computer, tablet or Chromebook without installing anything. The toolbar has the tools you expect: a pixel-precise pencil, a fill bucket, a text tool with fonts, bold, italic, underline and an optional opaque background, an eraser, a color picker and a magnifier. Nine brushes cover everyday painting: the round brush, two calligraphy pens, airbrush, oil, crayon, marker, natural pencil and watercolor. Each brush stroke is applied as a single layer of paint, so the opacity slider behaves like real glazing instead of building up dark blotches.
The Shapes gallery includes lines, arrows, curves, ovals, rectangles, rounded rectangles, free polygons, triangles, diamonds, pentagons, hexagons, four-, five- and six-point stars, speech callouts, a heart and a lightning bolt. Shapes stay editable after you draw them: drag the handles to resize, drag the middle to move, change the color, outline, fill or thickness, and only then click elsewhere to commit. Hold Shift for perfect squares, circles and 45° lines.
Selections, crop, resize and layers
Use rectangle or free-form selection to move, copy, delete or crop part of the picture. Drag inside a selection to move it, hold Ctrl to stamp copies, drag the handles to scale it, or rotate and flip only the selection. Transparent selection drops the color-2 background while you move it, just like in Paint. The Resize and Skew dialog works in percent or pixels, and Image Properties changes the canvas size without scaling. You can also drag the handles on the right and bottom edges of the canvas.
Modern Paint added layers, and so does this editor. Add a layer for line art, another for color and another for text; hide, reorder, merge or fade them independently. The eraser removes pixels to transparency on upper layers and paints color 2 on the background layer, matching Paint's behaviour.
Private by design
Nothing you draw or open is sent to a server. Images are decoded, edited and encoded locally, and the autosave lives in your own browser storage. That makes Paint Online safe for screenshots of private documents, family photos and client work. Save as PNG, JPEG, WebP or BMP, copy the image straight to the clipboard, print it, or keep a layered project file to continue later.
How to use
- Pick a toolChoose the pencil, a brush, a shape, text or the fill bucket from the toolbar, then set the size and opacity.
- Draw on the canvasLeft-click paints with color 1 and right-click with color 2. Drag the small handles on the canvas edge to change its size.
- Save your pictureOpen the File menu and save as PNG, JPEG, WebP or BMP, or save a project file that keeps your layers.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the real Microsoft Paint?
Are my drawings uploaded anywhere?
Does it support layers and transparency?
.paintproj project to keep the layers themselves.