Paintbrush for Mac

User Reviews

• Weird counterintuitive behaviour

  snthFebruary 16, 2013

  Pros

  free [We're required to enter at least 10 characters, so this here's a bonus-line. Enjoy.]

  Cons

  confusion is also free

  Summary

  I use select rectangle and expect to cut, and get a red rectangle. took me only 5 minutes to realize this thing was even worse than the previous version, which was merely slow, awkward and crash-prone. But what it could do actually made some sense.

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• primitive and some features not working at all

  roninzokuDecember 18, 2012

  Pros

  looks like windows version paintbrush

  Cons

  It is NOT Paintbrush and it's a little primitive in this era. (1) Canvas size could not be resized by dragging the edge of the window frame, instead we need to specify the dimension which is a challenge. (2) Font colour could not be changed - it's always BLACK!! (3) Cutting and pasting from another picture, and changing canvas size crashed many times!! (4) "Contact Us" is as good as not giving us the email address as they never respond to our queries/feedback.

  Summary

  Disappointment!

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• no good - won't cut and paste after 2 hrs into a dwg

  mhpellerinJuly 5, 2012

  Pros

  simple like paint - to bad it doesn't work as well as paint

  Cons

  won't cut and paste after 2 hrs into a dwg

  Summary

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• Absolutely needed, clean and simple, some rough edges

  JohnGableMarch 17, 2012

  Pros

  Very simple to use and very similar to PaintBrush on Windows or the old Mac Paint app. 90% of the time I only have very basic things to do, and this let's me do that. Other apps are much too complex, do way to much, and therefore make simple things hard.

  Cons

  A bit rough on the edges. When copying and pasting within Zoom mode, it would not have what I pasted selected in any usable way.

  Summary

  If you need a simple paint program, that does get drowned in lots of advanced features, layers, photo effects, etc, get this.

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• Unstable and Glitchy.... and too simple

  HugeEugeOctober 28, 2011

  Pros

  relatively easy to use

  Cons

  tools randomly change color, missing important functionality like being able to rotate image 90 degrees. When image is selected there is no way to stretch it like in every other paint program out there. Trying to resize selected image causes the program to crash 9 out of 10 times.

  Summary

  The developers have a good idea but the software just needs ALOT more development. This is the first time since I've gone MAC that I'm reminiscing about the good-old days of Microsoft Paint

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• A good and fun program. Reminds me of the old MacPaint.

  JohntheDragonSlayerJune 11, 2011

  Pros

  Easy to use!

  Cons

  It is so simple that one would think it to be more than it is.

  Summary

  Very good program. Get it if you can.

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• Very frustrating product

  wordsmythe99April 3, 2011

  Pros

  It has most of the basic features you would want.

  Cons

  Colors keep switching when you do not want them to; the eraser is terrible, sometimes adding color rather than subtracting; changing between instruments/options and the zoom arrows are sometimes very unresponsive. In dire need of a user's manual.

  Summary

  Still needs a lot of work.

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• Succeeds at what it sets out to do

  ThomasHarteMarch 17, 2011

  Pros

  Simple, well written, fits nicely into the OS environment, fun.

  Cons

  Limited functionality, I guess, but that's sort of the point.

  Summary

  It's a fun little play around tool that does exactly what it intends: provides a slim, light MacPaint/Microsoft Paint-style piece of software for the modern Mac.

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• perfect little image prog

  westhendon_dotmacJanuary 29, 2011

  Pros

  saves me firing up Photoshop for those little jobs

  Cons

  none - simple little image editor

  Summary

  always useful to have

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• Just OK...

  mwjacobsJanuary 13, 2011

  Pros

  Looks nice. Works fine.

  Cons

  Nothing really wrong with it.

  Summary

  Not what I was looking for.

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