Krita is a free and open source digital painting application built on the KDE and Qt frameworks that provides an end-to-end solution for creating professional digital art.
The tool addresses the needs of artists who require a complete workflow for digital creation, from initial concept to final output. Krita serves comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, texture painters, and VFX professionals. It is built as a cross-platform application leveraging the KDE ecosystem and Qt framework, enabling consistent functionality across different operating systems.
Krita is suited for anyone seeking a professional-grade, open source alternative for digital painting work. The project provides comprehensive documentation including a user manual, development guides, and API documentation. It maintains both a master branch for ongoing development and stable branches for production use. The tool is actively distributed through nightly builds for both unstable and stable versions, as well as specialized developer builds with debug symbols and sanitizer support for Linux and Windows.
The project maintains active CI pipelines across multiple branches with feature freeze and string freeze statuses tracked for the master branch. Development discussion occurs in an IRC channel where maintainers are regularly available, and the project hosts a dedicated community forum for users. Bug tracking and feature requests are managed through the KDE bug system, with a public list of open issues available for review.
